HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions User Manual
Hp storevirtual storage user guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Getting started
- Creating storage with HP StoreVirtual Storage
- Configuring storage systems
- Creating a storage volume using the Management Groups, Clusters, and Volumes wizard
- Enabling server access to volumes
- Using the Map View
- Setting preferences
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring remote support for HP StoreVirtual Storage
- 2 Working with storage systems
- 3 Configuring RAID and Managing Disks
- Configuring and managing RAID
- Planning the RAID configuration
- Setting RAID rebuild rate
- Reconfiguring RAID
- Monitoring RAID status
- Managing disks
- Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab
- Verifying disk status
- Viewing disk status for the StoreVirtual VSA
- Viewing disk status for the HP P4500 G2
- Viewing disk status for the HP P4300 G2
- Viewing disk status for the P4800 G2
- Viewing disk status for the P4900 G2
- Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4130
- Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4330
- Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4530
- Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4630
- Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4730
- Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4335
- Adding disks to RAID
- Replacing a disk
- Troubleshooting
- 4 Managing the network
- Network best practices
- Changing network configurations
- Managing settings on network interfaces
- The TCP/IP tab
- Configuring the IP address manually
- Using DHCP
- Configuring network interface bonds
- Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces
- IP address for NIC bonds
- NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings
- How Active-Passive bonding works
- How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works
- How Adaptive Load Balancing works
- Creating a NIC bond
- Viewing the status of a NIC bond
- Deleting a NIC bond
- Disabling a network interface
- Using a DNS server
- Setting up routing
- Configuring storage system communication
- Fibre Channel
- 5 Setting the date and time
- 6 Managing authentication
- 7 Monitoring the SAN
- Monitoring SAN status
- Alarms and events overview
- Working with alarms
- Configuring events
- Working with events
- Configuring email notification
- Configuring SNMP
- Running diagnostic reports
- Generating a hardware information report
- Using log files
- Exporting the management group support bundle
- Exporting the storage system support bundle
- Exporting the System Summary
- 8 Working with management groups
- Functions of management groups
- Planning management groups
- Creating a management group
- Configuration Summary overview
- Best Practice summary overview
- Management group maintenance tasks
- Shutting down a management group
- Removing a storage system from a management group
- Deleting a management group
- 9 Working with managers and quorum
- Managers overview
- Using the Failover Manager
- Planning the virtual network configuration
- Using the Failover Manager on Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Using the Failover Manager for VMware vSphere
- Using a virtual manager
- 10 Working with clusters
- 11 Provisioning storage
- Understanding how the capacity of the SAN is used
- Provisioning volumes
- Provisioning snapshots
- Ongoing capacity management
- 12 Using volumes
- 13 Using snapshots
- 14 SmartClone volumes
- What are SmartClone volumes?
- Planning SmartClone volumes
- Defining SmartClone volume characteristics
- Naming SmartClone volumes
- Shared versus individual characteristics
- Clone point
- Shared snapshot
- Creating SmartClone volumes
- To create a SmartClone volume
- Viewing SmartClone volumes
- Editing SmartClone volumes
- Deleting SmartClone volumes
- 15 Working with scripting
- 16 Controlling server access to volumes
- Planning server connections to management groups
- Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup
- Planning Fibre Channel server connections to management groups
- Clustering server connections
- Assigning iSCSI server connections access to volumes
- Assigning volumes to Fibre Channel servers
- Editing server connection and volume assignments
- 17 Monitoring performance
- Monitoring the SAN
- Monitoring volumes
- Monitoring data movement between storage tiers
- Planning SAN improvements using the Performance Monitor
- Configuring and using the Performance Monitor and Adaptive Optimization
- Using the Performance Monitor or Adaptive Optimization toolbar
- Reading the Performance Monitor or Adaptive Optimization graph
- Reading the Performance Monitor or Adaptive Optimization table
- Understanding the performance statistics
- Performance monitoring and analysis concepts
- Understanding the Adaptive Optimization statistics
- Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters
- Changing the sample interval and time zone
- Adding statistics
- Removing and clearing statistics
- Pausing and restarting monitoring
- Changing the graph
- Exporting data
- 18 Registering advanced features
- 19 HP StoreVirtual Storage using iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- 20 Using the Configuration Interface
- Connecting to the Configuration Interface
- Logging in to the Configuration Interface
- Configuring administrative users
- Configuring a network connection
- Deleting a NIC bond
- Setting the TCP speed, duplex, and frame size
- Removing a storage system from a management group
- Resetting the storage system to factory defaults
- 21 Replacing hardware
- 22 LeftHand OS TCP and UDP port usage
- 23 Third-party licenses
- 24 Support and other resources
- 25 Documentation feedback
- Glossary
- Index