3 managing storage resources in a san environment – HP XP Array Manager Software User Manual

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About removing hosts and releasing associated resources ........................................................ 44
Removing hosts and releasing associated resources
................................................................ 44

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 45

About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 46
Restarting a data collection task
........................................................................................... 46

3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment ............................. 49

Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 49

About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 49
Creating volumes
............................................................................................................... 49
Create volumes dialog box .................................................................................................. 50
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 52
Deleting unallocated volumes
.............................................................................................. 52
About creating a LUSE volume
............................................................................................. 52
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 53
About releasing a LUSE volume
............................................................................................ 53
Releasing a LUSE volume
..................................................................................................... 53

Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 54

About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 54
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 55
Virtualize Volumes dialog box
.............................................................................................. 55

Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 59

About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 59
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 60
Create pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 61
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 64
Expanding THP/Smart pools
............................................................................................... 64
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 65
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 66
Deleting THP/Smart pools
................................................................................................... 66
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 67
Reclaiming zero pages
........................................................................................................ 67

Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 67

About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 68
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 69
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 70
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools
........................................................ 70
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 71
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes
............................................................................ 71
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 72
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes
............................................................... 72
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 73
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 74
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 75
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 76
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 77
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 78

Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 78

About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 78
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 79
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 80
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 81
Allocating volumes to selected hosts
...................................................................................... 81
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 82

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