3 managing storage resources in a san environment – HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Licenses User Manual

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About removing hosts and releasing associated resources ........................................................ 44
Removing hosts and releasing associated resources ................................................................ 45

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 46

About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 46
Restarting a data collection task ........................................................................................... 47

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 shredding volume data .............................................................................................. 52
Shredding volume data
....................................................................................................... 52
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 53
Deleting unallocated volumes
.............................................................................................. 53
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 54
Creating a LUSE volume
...................................................................................................... 54
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 55
Releasing a LUSE volume
..................................................................................................... 55

Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 55

About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes ......................................................................... 56
Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system ................................................................. 57
Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system ..................................... 58
Unvirtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................ 59
Virtualize Volumes dialog box .............................................................................................. 60

Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 64

About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 65
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 66
Create Pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 68
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 72
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 73
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 75
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings
...................................................................................... 75
Deleting THP/Smart pools
................................................................................................... 75
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 76
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 77

Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 77

About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 77
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 79
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools
................................................ 79
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 80
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes
................................................................................ 80
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 81
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 82
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes
............................................................... 82
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 83
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 84
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 85
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 86
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 87
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool
............................................................ 87

Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 88

About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 88
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 89

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