HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 4)

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 39
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 39
3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment ...................................... 41
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 41
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 41
Prerequisites for creating volumes ......................................................................................... 41
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 41
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 42
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 42
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 42
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 43
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 43
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 43
Virtualizing storage ................................................................................................................... 43
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 43
Prerequisites for virtualizing volumes ..................................................................................... 44
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 44
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 45
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 45
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 46
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 46
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 47
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 47
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 48
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 48
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 48
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 48
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 49
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 49
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 50
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 50
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 50
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 51
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 51
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 52
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 52
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 53
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 54
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 55
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 55
Implementing periodic operations on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ......................... 56
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 56
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 57
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 57
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 58
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 59
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 59
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ...................................................................................... 59
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 60
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts ..................................................................................... 60
Allocating volumes by using a keyword search ....................................................................... 61
Allocating volumes by using a criteria search ......................................................................... 61
Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings ............................................................... 62
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