4 auto lun operations, Migrating a volume manually, Prerequisites – HP XP P9000 Auto LUN Software User Manual

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4 Auto LUN operations

This chapter contains operations performed in the Auto LUN window.

Migrating a volume manually

A volume can be migrated manually through the Manual Plan window.

Prerequisites

The Auto Migration function is disabled. See

“Stopping the Auto Migration function” (page 26)

.

The user has permission to access the source and target volume

The volumes meet all requirements as source and target volume candidates

Procedure 1 To migrate a volume manually:

1.

Click Actions

→Other Function→Auto LUN.

2.

Click

to change to Modify mode.

3.

In the Monitoring Term section, specify the starting time and ending time to collect performance
and usage statistics, and click Apply.

In a later step, a graph will be created based on this specified period.

NOTE:

Do not include the period when an error occurred. Resource usage can become

unbalanced when the storage system experiences an error.

4.

In the Auto LUN window, click Auto LUN. A different window appears.

5.

Click the Manual Plan tab to display the

“Manual Migration window” (page 47)

.

6.

In the navigation tree, click the parity group that contains the volume you want to migrate. To
display the usage rate of the parity groups, click Display usage rate.

The volumes contained in the selected parity group load in the

“LDEVs list” (page 50)

.

7.

In the

“LDEVs list” (page 50)

, select the volume you want to migrate and then click Target.

The

“Target (Reserved) LDEV list” (page 50)

displays the reserved volumes that can be used

as a target volume.

8.

In the

“Target (Reserved) LDEV list” (page 50)

, select the target volume.

9.

Click Graph to check the estimated results after the migration plan is executed.

The Graph window opens.

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