Document Outline

• HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Getting started
  • Creating storage with HP StoreVirtual Storage
  • Configuring storage systems
  • Creating a storage volume using the Management Groups, Clusters, and Volumes wizard
  • Enabling server access to volumes
  • Using the Map View
    • Using the display tools
    • Using views and layouts
  • Setting preferences
    • Setting the font size and locale
    • Setting naming conventions
      • Changing naming conventions
  • Troubleshooting
    • Storage systems not found
  • Configuring remote support for HP StoreVirtual Storage
• 2 Working with storage systems
  • Identifying the storage system hardware
  • Storage system tasks
    • Logging in to and out of storage systems
      • Logging out of a storage system
    • Changing the storage system hostname
    • Locating the storage system in a rack
  • Powering off or rebooting the storage system
    • Powering on or off, or rebooting storage systems with modular components
    • Rebooting the storage system
    • Powering off the storage system
  • Upgrading LeftHand OS on storage systems
  • Registering advanced features for a storage system
  • Determining volume and snapshot availability
  • Checking status of dedicated boot devices
    • Checking boot device status
      • Getting there
    • Replacing a dedicated boot device
• 3 Configuring RAID and Managing Disks
  • Getting there
  • Configuring and managing RAID
  • RAID Levels
  • Explaining RAID devices in the RAID setup report
    • RAID devices by RAID type
      • Virtual RAID devices
  • Planning the RAID configuration
    • Data protection
      • Using RAID for data redundancy
      • Using Network RAID in a cluster
    • Using disk RAID with Network RAID in a cluster
    • Mixing RAID configurations
  • Setting RAID rebuild rate
    • General guidelines for setting the RAID rebuild rate
    • Setting the RAID rebuild rate
  • Reconfiguring RAID
    • To reconfigure RAID
    • Reconfiguring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives
  • Monitoring RAID status
    • Data reads and writes and RAID status
    • Data redundancy and RAID status
  • Managing disks
    • Getting there
    • Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab
    • Verifying disk status
      • Viewing disk status for the VSA
      • Viewing disk status for the HP P4500 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the HP P4300 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the P4800 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the P4900 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4130
      • Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4330
      • Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4530
      • Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4630
      • Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4730
  • Replacing a disk
    • Using Repair Storage System
    • Replacing disks in hot-swap storage systems
    • Preparing for a disk replacement
    • Replacing a disk in a hot-swap storage system
  • Troubleshooting
• 4 Managing the network
  • Network best practices
  • Changing network configurations
  • Managing settings on network interfaces
    • TCP status tab
    • Changing speed and duplex settings
    • Changing NIC frame size
      • Jumbo frames
      • Editing the NIC frame size
    • Changing NIC flow control
  • The TCP/IP tab
    • Identifying the network interfaces
    • Pinging an IP address
      • To ping an IP address
  • Configuring the IP address manually
  • Using DHCP
  • Configuring network interface bonds
    • Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces
      • Supported bonds with 10 GbE
      • Unsupported bonds with 10 GbE
    • IP address for NIC bonds
    • NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings
    • How Active-Passive bonding works
      • Physical and logical interfaces
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Summary of NIC status during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive
    • How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Which physical interface is active
      • Summary of NIC states during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with link aggregation dynamic mode
    • How Adaptive Load Balancing works
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Which physical interface is active
      • Summary of NIC states during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with Adaptive Load Balancing
    • Creating a NIC bond
      • Creating the bond
      • Verify communication setting for new bond
    • Viewing the status of a NIC bond
    • Deleting a NIC bond
  • Disabling a network interface
    • Configuring a disabled interface
  • Using a DNS server
    • Editing DNS settings
  • Setting up routing
    • Adding routing information
    • Editing routing information
    • Deleting routing information
  • Configuring storage system communication
    • Selecting the interface used by the LeftHand OS
    • Updating the list of manager IP addresses
  • Fibre Channel
• 5 Setting the date and time
  • Management group time
  • Getting there
  • Refreshing the management group time
  • Using NTP
    • Editing NTP servers
    • Deleting an NTP server
      • Delete an NTP server
    • Changing the order of NTP servers
  • Editing the date and time
  • Editing the time zone only
• 6 Managing authentication
  • Managing administrative users
    • Adding an administrative user
    • Editing administrative users
      • Changing a user’s description
      • Changing a user’s password
      • Adding group membership to a user
      • Removing group membership from a user
      • Deleting an administrative user
  • Managing administrative groups
    • Default administrative groups
      • Adding administrative groups
    • Editing administrative groups
      • Changing the group description
      • Changing administrative group permissions
      • Adding users to an existing group
      • Removing users from a group
      • Deleting administrative groups
  • Using Active Directory for external authentication
    • Configuring external authentication
    • Associating the Active Directory group with the LeftHand OS group
    • Removing the Active Directory configuration
• 7 Monitoring the SAN
  • Monitoring SAN status
    • Customizing the SAN Status Page
    • Using the SAN Status Page
  • Alarms and events overview
  • Working with alarms
    • Filtering the alarms list
    • Viewing and copying alarm details
    • Viewing alarms in a separate window
    • Exporting alarm data to a .csv file
  • Configuring events
    • Changing the event retention period
    • Configuring remote log destinations
    • Viewing events in a separate window
  • Working with events
    • Viewing new events
    • Filtering the events list
      • Saving filter views
      • Deleting custom filters
    • Viewing event details
    • Copying events to the clipboard
    • Exporting event data to a .csv or .txt file
  • Configuring email notification
    • Configuring the email server
    • Configuring email recipients
  • Configuring SNMP
    • Enabling SNMP agents
      • Enabling the SNMP agent
      • Configuring access control for SNMP clients
        • Adding an SNMP client
        • Editing access control entries
        • Deleting access control entries
      • Disabling the SNMP agent
        • Disabling SNMP
    • Adding SNMP traps
    • Using the SNMP MIBs
    • Troubleshooting SNMP
  • Running diagnostic reports
  • Generating a hardware information report
  • Using log files
    • Saving log files locally
    • Configuring a remote log and remote log destination
    • Editing remote log targets
    • Deleting remote logs
  • Exporting the management group support bundle
  • Exporting the storage system support bundle
  • Exporting the System Summary
• 8 Working with management groups
  • Functions of management groups
  • Planning management groups
  • Creating a management group
    • Name the management group and add storage systems
    • Add administrative user
    • Set management group time
    • Set DNS server
    • Set up email for notification
    • Create cluster and assign a VIP
    • Create a volume and finish creating management group
    • Logging in to a management group
    • Management group map view tab
  • Configuration Summary overview
    • Reading the configuration summary
      • Optimal configurations
      • Configuration warnings
      • Configuration errors
    • Configuration guidance
  • Best Practice summary overview
    • Disk level data protection
      • Disk protection using RAID
      • Large single-system SATA cluster
      • Disk RAID Consistency
    • Cluster-level data protection
    • Volume-level data protection
    • Volume access
    • Systems running managers
    • Network bonding
    • Network bond consistency
    • Network flow control consistency
    • Network frame size consistency
  • Management group maintenance tasks
    • Logging in to a management group
      • Choosing which storage system to log in to
    • Logging out of a management group
    • Adding a storage system to an existing management group
    • Starting and stopping managers
      • Starting additional managers
      • Stopping managers
        • Implications of stopping managers
    • Editing a management group
      • Setting or changing the local bandwidth priority
    • Saving the management group configuration information
  • Shutting down a management group
    • If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts
    • Restarting the management group
      • Restarted management group in maintenance mode
      • Manually changing the management group to normal mode
  • Removing a storage system from a management group
  • Deleting a management group
• 9 Working with managers and quorum
  • Managers overview
    • Best practice for managers in a management group
    • Managers and quorum
    • Regular managers and specialized managers
      • Failover Managers
      • Virtual Managers
  • Using the Failover Manager
    • Planning the virtual network configuration
    • Using the Failover Manager on Microsoft Hyper-V Server
      • Installing the Failover Manager for Hyper-V Server
      • Uninstalling the Failover Manager from Hyper-V Server
    • Using the Failover Manager for VMware vSphere
      • Installing the Failover Manager for VMware vSphere
      • Installing the Failover Manager for other VMware platforms
        • Configuring the IP address and host name
      • Installing the Failover Manager using the OVF files with the VI Client
        • Configure the IP address and host name
        • Finishing up with VI Client
      • Troubleshooting the Failover Manager on VMware vSphere
      • Uninstalling the Failover Manager from VMware vSphere
  • Using a virtual manager
    • Requirements for using a virtual manager
    • Adding a virtual manager
    • Starting a virtual manager to regain quorum
    • Verifying virtual manager status
    • Stopping a virtual manager
    • Removing a virtual manager from a management group
• 10 Working with clusters
  • Clusters and storage systems
  • Creating a cluster
    • Cluster Map View
  • Monitoring cluster usage
  • Editing a cluster
    • Editing cluster properties
    • Editing iSNS servers
    • Editing cluster VIP addresses
    • Reconnecting volumes and applications after changing VIPs or iSNS servers
  • Maintaining storage systems in clusters
    • Adding a storage system to a cluster
    • Upgrading the storage systems in a cluster using cluster swap
    • Reordering storage systems in a cluster
    • Exchange a storage system in a cluster
    • Removing a storage system from a cluster
  • Troubleshooting a cluster
    • Auto Performance Protection
      • Auto Performance Protection and the VSA
      • Auto Performance Protection and other clusters
    • Repairing a storage system
  • Deleting a cluster
• 11 Provisioning storage
  • Understanding how the capacity of the SAN is used
  • Provisioning storage
  • Provisioning volumes
    • Full provisioning
    • Thin provisioning
      • Best practice for setting volume size
    • Planning data protection
      • Former terminology in release 8.1 and earlier
      • Data protection level
      • How data protection levels work
        • Network RAID-10 (2–Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-10+1 (3-Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-10+2 (4-Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-5 (Single Parity)
        • Network RAID-6 (Dual Parity)
  • Provisioning snapshots
    • Snapshots versus backups
    • The effect of snapshots on cluster space
    • Managing capacity using volume size and snapshots
      • Volume size and snapshots
      • Schedules to snapshot a volume and capacity
      • Deleting snapshots
  • Ongoing capacity management
    • Number of volumes and snapshots
    • Reviewing SAN capacity and usage
      • Cluster use summary
      • Volume use summary
      • System Use summary
    • Measuring disk capacity and volume size
      • Block systems and file systems
      • Storing file system data on a block system
    • Changing the volume size on the server
      • Increasing the volume size in Microsoft Windows
      • Increasing the volume size in other environments
    • Changing configuration characteristics to manage space
• 12 Using volumes
  • Volumes and server access
    • Prerequisites
  • Planning volumes
  • Characteristics of volumes
  • Creating a volume
  • Viewing the volume map
  • Editing a volume
    • To edit a volume
  • Deleting a volume
    • To delete the volume
• 13 Using snapshots
  • Types of snapshots
    • Uses and best practices for snapshots
  • Planning snapshots
    • Prerequisites for application-managed snapshots
  • Creating snapshots
    • Editing a snapshot
  • Scheduling snapshots
    • Best practices for scheduling snapshots of volumes
    • Requirements for snapshot schedules
    • Scheduling snapshots for volume sets
    • Creating a schedule to snapshot a volume
      • Editing scheduled snapshots
      • Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots
      • Deleting schedules to snapshot a volume
      • Scripting snapshots
  • Mounting a snapshot
    • Mounting the snapshot on a host
    • Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available
    • Managing snapshot temporary space
      • Convert the temporary space to access data
      • Delete the temporary space
  • Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
    • Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
      • Continue with standard roll back
      • Create a new SmartClone volume from the snapshot
      • Roll back all associated volumes
      • Cancel the rollback operation
  • Deleting a snapshot
  • Troubleshooting snapshots
• 14 SmartClone volumes
  • What are SmartClone volumes?
    • Prerequisites
    • SmartClone volume terminology
    • Example scenarios for using SmartClone volumes
      • Deploy multiple virtual or boot-from-SAN servers
        • Scenario: Computer training lab
      • Safely use production data for test, development, and data mining
        • Test and development
        • Data mining
      • Clone a volume
  • Planning SmartClone volumes
    • Space requirements
    • Naming convention for SmartClone volumes
      • Naming and multiple identical disks in a server
    • Server access
  • Defining SmartClone volume characteristics
  • Naming SmartClone volumes
  • Shared versus individual characteristics
  • Clone point
  • Shared snapshot
  • Creating SmartClone volumes
  • To create a SmartClone volume
  • Viewing SmartClone volumes
    • Map view
      • Using views
      • Viewing clone points, volumes, and snapshots
  • Editing SmartClone volumes
    • To edit the SmartClone volumes
  • Deleting SmartClone volumes
    • Deleting the clone point
    • Deleting multiple SmartClone volumes
• 15 Working with scripting
• 16 Controlling server access to volumes
  • Planning server connections to management groups
    • Using Controlling IP addresses
    • Planning iSCSI server connections to management groups
    • Adding an iSCSI server connection
    • Editing an iSCSI server connection
    • Deleting an iSCSI server connection
  • Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup
    • Persistent targets or favorite targets
    • HP StoreVirtual DSM for Microsoft MPIO settings
    • Disk management
  • Planning Fibre Channel server connections to management groups
    • Adding a Fibre Channel server connection
    • Manually configuring a Fibre Channel initiator
      • Deleting a manually configured Fibre Channel initiator
    • Editing a Fibre Channel server connection
    • Deleting a Fibre Channel server connection
    • Completing the Fibre Channel setup
  • Clustering server connections
    • Requirements for clustering servers
    • Creating a server cluster
    • Viewing the relationship between storage systems, volumes, and servers
    • Editing a server cluster
    • Deleting a server cluster
  • Assigning iSCSI server connections access to volumes
    • Assigning server iSCSI connections from a volume
    • Assigning volumes from an iSCSI connection
  • Assigning volumes to Fibre Channel servers
    • Assigning Fibre Channel servers from a volume
    • Assigning volumes from a Fibre Channel server
    • Assigning a boot volume to a Fibre Channel server
  • Editing server connection and volume assignments
• 17 Monitoring performance
  • Prerequisites
  • Introduction to using performance information
    • What can I learn about my SAN?
      • Current SAN activities example
      • Workload characterization example
    • Fault isolation example
  • What can I learn about my volumes?
    • Most active volumes examples
    • Activity generated by a specific server example
  • Planning for SAN improvements
    • Network utilization to determine if NIC bonding could improve performance example
    • Load comparison of two clusters example
    • Load comparison of two volumes example
  • Accessing and understanding the Performance Monitor window
    • Performance Monitor toolbar
    • Performance monitor graph
    • Performance monitor table
    • Understanding the performance statistics
  • Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters
  • Performance monitoring and analysis concepts
  • Changing the sample interval and time zone
  • Adding statistics
    • Viewing statistic details
  • Removing and clearing statistics
    • Removing a statistic
    • Clearing the sample data
    • Clearing the display
    • Resetting defaults
  • Pausing and restarting monitoring
  • Changing the graph
    • Hiding and showing the graph
    • Displaying or hiding a line
    • Changing the color or style of a line
    • Highlighting a line
    • Changing the scaling factor
  • Exporting data
    • Exporting statistics to a CSV file
    • Saving the graph to an image file
• 18 Registering advanced features
  • Evaluation period for using advanced features
    • Starting the evaluation period
    • Backing out of Remote Copy evaluation
  • Scripting evaluation
    • Turn on scripting evaluation
    • Turn off scripting evaluation
  • Registering advanced features
    • Using license keys
    • Registering available storage systems for license keys
    • Registering storage systems in a management group
  • Saving and editing your customer information
• 19 HP StoreVirtual Storage using iSCSI and Fibre Channel
  • iSCSI and HP StoreVirtual Storage
    • Number of iSCSI sessions
    • VIPs
    • iSNS server
    • iSCSI load balancing
    • Authentication (CHAP)
    • iSCSI and CHAP terminology
      • Example iSCSI configurations
    • Use the HP StoreVirtual DSM for Microsoft MPIO
  • Fibre Channel and HP StoreVirtual Storage
    • Creating Fibre Channel connectivity
      • Zoning
    • Using MPIO with Fibre Channel
      • Adding the MPIO Device Hardware ID
• 20 Using the Configuration Interface
  • Connecting to the Configuration Interface
    • Establishing a terminal emulation session on a Windows system
    • Establishing a terminal emulation session on a Linux/UNIX system
    • Opening the Configuration Interface from the terminal emulation session
  • Logging in to the Configuration Interface
  • Configuring administrative users
  • Configuring a network connection
  • Deleting a NIC bond
  • Setting the TCP speed, duplex, and frame size
  • Removing a storage system from a management group
  • Resetting the storage system to factory defaults
• 21 Replacing hardware
  • Replacing disks and rebuilding data
    • Replacing disks
      • Verify the storage system is not running a manager
      • Repair the storage system
    • Rebuilding data
      • Reconfigure RAID
    • Returning the storage system to the cluster
      • Restarting a manager
      • Adding the repaired storage system to cluster
    • Rebuilding volume data
      • Controlling server access
    • Removing the ghost storage system
      • Returning the failed disk
  • Replacing the RAID controller
    • Verifying component failure
    • Removing the RAID controller
    • Installing the RAID controller
    • Verifying proper operation
• 22 LeftHand OS TCP and UDP port usage
• 23 Third-party licenses
• 24 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
  • Rack stability
  • Customer self repair
  • HP Insight Remote Support Software
  • Related information
    • HP websites
• 25 Documentation feedback
• Glossary
• Index