Before you begin, System requirements – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Description

Term

A resource group in which additional resources (other than external volumes) and the
resources existing before installing Resource Partition belong.

meta_resource

In Thin Provisioning, a page is 42 MB of continuous storage in a THP V-VOL that belongs
to a THP-pool.

page

A set of volumes that are reserved for storing Thin Provisioning, Fast Snap, or Snapshot
write data.

pool

In a thin provisioned storage system, the proportion (%) of used capacity of the pool to
the total pool capacity. Each pool has its own pool threshold values for warning and
depletion.

pool threshold

A volume that is reserved for storing snapshot data for Snapshot operations or write data
for Thin Provisioning.

pool-VOL, pool volume

A group that is assigned one or more resources of the storage system. The resources that
can be assigned to the resource group are LDEV IDs, parity groups, external volumes,
ports, and host group IDs.

resource group

In a thin provisioned storage system, the proportion (%) of total THP-VOL capacity
associated with the pool versus the total capacity.

subscription threshold

You can set the percentage of THP-VOL capacity that can be created to the total capacity
of the pool. This can help prevent THP-VOL blocking caused by a full pool.

For example, when the subscription limit is set to 100%, the total THP-VOL capacity that
can be created is obtained using this formula:

total THP-VOL capacity <= pool capacity x 100%

Using this setting protects the pool when doing the following:

Shrinking a pool

Creating THP-VOLs

Increasing THP-VOL capacity

The value of the reached maximum I/O counts that each tier can process.

tier boundary

A combination of determining the appropriate storage tier and migrating the pages to
the appropriate tier.

tier relocation

A storage hierarchy of layered structures of data drives consisting of different performance
levels, or tiers, that match data access requirements with the appropriate performance
tiers.

tiered storage

A virtual device in the storage system. A VDEV is a group of logical volumes (LDEVs or
logical units) in a parity group. One parity group consists of multiple VDEVs. A VDEV

VDEV

usually includes some fixed volumes (FVs) and some free spaces. The number of FVs is
determined by the emulation type.

Before you begin

Before you begin provisioning your P9500 storage system, certain requirements must be met.

System requirements

The P9500 hardware, microcode, and Remote Web Console essential for operating the
storage system be installed and configured for use.

A P9500 storage system.

The storage system must have parity groups installed.

A Remote Web Console client computer.

Before you begin

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