HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual
Hp p9000 provisioning for open systems user guide
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P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems User
Guide
Abstract
This guide describes and provides instructions for using HP P9000 provisioning software to configure and perform its operations
on HP P9500 disk arrays. Provisioning software includes Thin Provisioning, Smart Tiers, Open Volume Management (Virtual
LUN and LUSE), LUN Manager, and Data Retention. The intended audience is a storage system administrator or authorized
service provider with independent knowledge of HP P9000 disk arrays and the HP Remote Web Console.
HP Part Number: AV400-96456
Published: April 2012
Edition: Seventh
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction to provisioning
- 2 Configuring resource groups
- System configuration using resource groups
- Resource groups examples
- Meta_resource
- Resource lock
- User groups
- Resource group assignments
- Resource group license requirements
- Resource group rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- Creating a resource group
- Adding resources to a resource group
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Managing Resource Groups
- Using Resource Partition and other P9500 products
- Snapshot
- Thin Provisioning
- DKA Encryption
- External Storage Access Manager
- LUN Expansion
- LUN Manager
- Performance Monitor
- Business Copy
- Continuous Access Synchronous
- Continuous Access Journal
- External Storage
- Open Volume Management
- Cache Partition
- Auto LUN
- Volume Shredder
- Configuration File Loader
- CLI Spreadsheet for LUN Expansion
- Performance Control
- 3 Configuring custom-sized provisioning
- Virtual LVI/Virtual LUN functions
- VLL requirements
- VLL specifications
- SSID requirements
- VLL size calculations
- Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
- Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
- Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
- Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
- Calculating the size of a CV using Enhanced mode on SATA drives
- Configuring volumes in a parity group
- Create LDEV function
- Blocking an LDEV
- Restoring a blocked LDEV
- Editing an LDEV name
- Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)
- Formatting LDEVs
- Assigning a processor blade
- Using a system disk
- 4 Configuring expanded LU provisioning
- About LUSE
- LUN Expansion license requirements
- Supported operating systems
- LUSE configuration example
- LUSE configuration rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- LUSE operations using a path-defined LDEV
- LUSE provisioning workflow
- Opening the LUN Expansion (LUSE) window
- Viewing a concatenated parity group
- Creating a LUSE volume
- Resetting an unregistered LUSE volume
- Maintaining LUSE volumes
- 5 Configuring thin provisioning
- Thin Provisioning overview
- Smart Tiers overview
- Thin provisioning requirements
- Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers with other P9500 products
- Thin Provisioning workflow
- Smart Tiers
- About tiered storage
- Tier monitoring and data relocation
- Multi-tier pool Pool
- Tier monitoring and relocation cycles
- Tier relocation flow
- Tier relocation rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- Collection of monitoring information is cancelled
- Collected monitoring information is discarded
- Tier relocation is canceled
- Buffer area of a tier
- Smart Tiers cache specifications and requirements
- Execution modes for tier relocation
- Monitoring modes
- Notes on performing monitoring
- Downloading the tier relocation log file
- Tiering levels of tiering policy
- Tiering policy examples
- Setting tiering policy on a THP V-VOL
- Tiering policy levels
- Viewing the tiering policy in the performance graph
- Reserving tier capacity when setting a tiering policy
- Example of reserving tier capacity
- Notes on setting tiering level
- New page assignment tier
- Relocation priority
- Formatted pool capacity
- Rebalancing the usage level among pool-VOLs
- Execution mode settings and tiering policy
- Changing the tiering policy level on a THP V-VOL
- Changing relocation priority setting of V-VOL
- Smart Tiers workflow
- Smart Tiers tasks and parameters
- Managing Smart Tiers
- Viewing pool tier information
- Viewing THP V-VOL tier information
- Changing a pool for Smart Tiers to a pool for Thin Provisioning
- Working with pools
- Working with THP V-VOLs
- Monitoring capacity and performance
- Thresholds
- Working with SIMs
- Managing pools and THP V-VOLs
- Viewing pool information
- Viewing formatted pool capacity
- Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among pool-VOLs
- Increasing pool capacity
- Changing a pool name
- Recovering a blocked pool
- Decrease pool capacity
- Deleting a tier in a pool
- Deleting a pool
- Increasing THP V-VOL capacity
- Changing the name of a THP V-VOL
- About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL
- Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL
- Deleting a THP V-VOL
- 6 Configuring access attributes
- About access attributes
- Access attribute requirements
- Access attributes and permitted operations
- Access attribute restrictions
- Access attributes work flow
- Assigning an access attribute to a volume
- Changing an access attribute to read-only or protect
- Changing an access attribute to read/write
- Enabling or disabling the expiration lock
- Disabling an S-VOL
- Reserving volumes
- 7 Managing logical volumes
- LUN Manager overview
- Managing logical units workflow
- Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports
- Configuring fibre channel ports
- Configuring hosts
- Configuring LU paths
- Releasing LUN reservation by host
- LUN security on ports
- Setting fibre channel authentication
- User authentication
- Host and host group authentication
- Fabric switch authentication
- Fabric switch settings and connection results
- Mutual authentication of ports
- Fibre channel authentication
- Fibre channel port authentication
- Registering user information on a fibre channel port
- Registering user information on a fabric switch
- Clearing fabric switch user information
- Setting the fabric switch authentication mode
- Enabling or disabling fabric switch authentication
- Managing hosts
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 9 Support and other resources
- A RAID Manager command reference
- B Resource Partition GUI reference
- C LDEV GUI reference
- Parity Groups window
- Parity Groups window after selecting Internal (or External) under Parity Groups
- Window after selecting a parity group under Internal (or External) of Parity Groups
- Window after selecting Logical Devices
- Create LDEVs wizard
- Edit LDEVs wizard
- Change LDEV Settings window
- View SSIDs window
- Select Free Spaces window
- Select Pool window
- View LDEV IDs window
- View Physical Location window
- Edit SSIDs window
- Change SSID window
- Format LDEVs wizard
- Restore LDEVs window
- Block LDEVs window
- Delete LDEVs window
- LDEV Properties window
- Top window when selecting Components
- Top window when selecting controller chassis under Components
- Edit Processor Blades wizard
- Assign Processor Blade wizard
- D LUSE GUI reference
- E Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers GUI reference
- Pools window after selecting pool (Pools window)
- Top window when selecting a pool under Pools
- Create Pools wizard
- Expand Pool wizard
- Edit Pools wizard
- Delete Pools wizard
- Expand V-VOLs wizard
- Restore Pools window
- Shrink Pool window
- Stop Shrinking Pools window
- Complete SIMs window
- Select Pool VOLs window
- Reclaim Zero Pages window
- Stop Reclaiming Zero Pages window
- Pool Property window
- View Tier Properties window
- Monitor Pools window
- Stop Monitoring Pools window
- Start Tier Relocation window
- Stop Tier Relocation window
- View Pool Management Status window
- F Data Retention GUI reference
- G LUN Manager GUI reference
- Port/Host Groups window after selecting Ports/Host Groups
- Port/Host Groups window after selecting a port under Ports/Host Groups
- Port/Hosts window when selecting a host group under the port of Ports/Host Groups
- Add LUN Paths wizard
- Create Host Groups wizard
- Edit Host Groups wizard
- Add to Host Groups wizard (when specific host is selected)
- Add Hosts wizard (when specific hosts group is selected)
- Delete LUN Paths wizard
- Edit Host wizard
- Edit Ports wizard
- Create Alternative LUN Paths wizard
- Copy LUN Paths wizard
- Remove Hosts wizard
- Edit UUIDs wizard
- Add New Host window
- Change LUN IDs window
- Delete Host Groups window
- Delete Login WWNs window
- Delete UUIDs window
- Host Group Properties window
- LUN Properties window
- Authentication window
- Edit Command Devices wizard
- Host-Reserved LUNs window
- Release Host-Reserved LUNs wizard
- View Login WWN Status window
- Glossary
- Index