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

3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment ...................................... 25
Virtualizing storage ................................................................................................................... 25
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 25
Prerequisites for virtualizing volumes ..................................................................................... 25
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 26
Virtualizing storage capacity ...................................................................................................... 26
About virtualizing storage capacity by creating THP pools ....................................................... 26
Prerequisites for creating THP pools ...................................................................................... 27
Creating a THP pool ........................................................................................................... 27
Verifying THP pools ............................................................................................................ 28
Prerequisites for expanding THP pools .................................................................................. 28
Expanding THP pools ......................................................................................................... 28
Shrinking a THP pool .......................................................................................................... 29
Modifying THP pool settings ................................................................................................ 29
Expanding THP volumes ...................................................................................................... 29
Reclaiming zero page ......................................................................................................... 30
Allocating volumes .................................................................................................................... 30
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 30
Prerequisites for allocating volumes to hosts .......................................................................... 30
Allocating volumes to hosts .................................................................................................. 30
About path management ..................................................................................................... 31
Editing paths from hosts ...................................................................................................... 31
Editing paths from storage systems ........................................................................................ 32
Editing paths from logical groups ......................................................................................... 32
Editing paths from volume search results ................................................................................ 33
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 33
Prerequisites for creating volumes ......................................................................................... 33
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 34
About unallocating volumes ................................................................................................. 34
Prerequisites for unallocating volumes from hosts .................................................................... 34
Unallocating volumes from hosts ........................................................................................... 34
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 35
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 35
Replicating volumes .................................................................................................................. 35
About replicating volumes (pair management) ........................................................................ 35
Copy pair management operations ...................................................................................... 36
Adding command devices ................................................................................................... 36
Editing command devices .................................................................................................... 37
Defining copy pairs ............................................................................................................ 37
Changing the status of a copy pair ....................................................................................... 38
Migrating volumes .................................................................................................................... 38
About volume migration ...................................................................................................... 38
Prerequisites for migrating volumes ....................................................................................... 39
Migrating volumes .............................................................................................................. 40
Managing tasks ....................................................................................................................... 41
About tasks ....................................................................................................................... 41
Viewing task status ............................................................................................................. 41
Rescheduling uncompleted tasks ........................................................................................... 42
Pausing Tiered Storage Manager tasks .................................................................................. 42
Canceling scheduled tasks .................................................................................................. 42
Moving a failed task summary ............................................................................................. 43
4 Grouping resources .......................................................................... 45
Managing logical groups .......................................................................................................... 45
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