Raid manager, How fast snap works, Fast snap pools – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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RAID Manager

Use the RAID Manager to perform FS tasks. You do this by running commands from a host. For
more information about the commands, see

“RAID Manager command reference” (page 72)

and

HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Reference Guide.

How Fast Snap works

This topic explains how FS works.

Fast Snap Pools

FS stores snapshot data in pools. A pool consists of multiple pool-VOLs. The pool-VOLs contain the
snapshot data. A pool can contain up to 1,024 pool-VOLs.

Each storage system can contain up to 128 pools, and can include the following pools:

THP

Smart Tiers (Smart)

FS

Snapshot (SS)

The following figure illustrates the relationship between a FS pair and a pool.

How Fast Snap works

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