HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 75)

Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers with other P9500 products
Interoperability of THP V-VOLs and pool-VOLs
THP V-VOLs and pool-VOLs can be used in conjunction with other P9500 products. The following
table lists the operations that are permitted and not permitted.
Not permitted Permitted Product name (Guide name)
Performing operations on THP
pool-VOLs or THP V-VOLs. Not applicable Cache Residency (HP P9000
Performance for Open and Mainframe
Systems User Guide)
Using a THP V-VOL as a Snapshot
P-VOL. The maximum total number of Snapshot (HP P9000 Snapshot User
Guide) • Using a THP V-VOL as a Snapshot
S-VOL or pool-VOL.
pools per storage system is 128.
•
Using a Thin Provisioning or Smart
Tiers pool-VOL as a Snapshot P-VOL,
S-VOL or pool-VOL.
Snapshot pool limits are reduced by
the number of Thin Provisioning pools
and Smart Tiers pools.
• Increasing the capacity of a THP
V-VOL using Snapshot.
•
Reclaiming zero pages of V-VOL
used by Snapshot.
Performing operations on THP
pool-VOLs. Performing operations on THP V-VOLs. Data Retention (HP P9000
Provisioning for Open Systems User
Guide)
Performing operations on THP
pool-VOLs. Performing operations on THP V-VOLs. Database Validator (HP P9000
Database Validator User Guide)
Using a THP V-VOL as a External
Storage Access Manager P-VOL or
S-VOL. External Storage Access Manager (HP
P9000 External Storage Access
Manager User Guide) •
Using a THP V-VOL as a quorum
disk.
•
Using a pool-VOL as a External
Storage Access Manager P-VOL or
S-VOL.
•
Increasing the capacity of THP
V-VOL used by External Storage
Access Manager.
Performing operations on THP V-VOLs
or THP pool-VOLs. Not applicable LUN Expansion (HP P9000
Provisioning for Open Systems User
Guide)
Performing operations on THP
pool-VOLs. Performing operations on THP V-VOLs. LUN Manager (HP P9000 Provisioning
for Open Systems User Guide)
LUN Security (HP P9000 Provisioning
for Open Systems User Guide)
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