HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 11
1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite ................................................................................................. 13
About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite ......................................... 13
Features ................................................................................................................................... 13
What's new ............................................................................................................................. 14
System configuration ................................................................................................................. 15
Logging in ............................................................................................................................... 17
Navigating the interface ............................................................................................................ 18
Navigating help ....................................................................................................................... 19
Operational workflows .............................................................................................................. 20
Process flow ...................................................................................................................... 20
Configuring HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite .......................... 21
Setting up storage resources ................................................................................................ 21
Setting up users and access control ...................................................................................... 21
Creating a storage operating environment ............................................................................. 22
Allocating storage .............................................................................................................. 22
Monitoring storage ............................................................................................................. 23
2 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets ..................... 25
Registering storage systems ........................................................................................................ 25
About registering and removing a storage system ................................................................... 25
Prerequisites for registering a storage system .......................................................................... 25
Registering a storage system ................................................................................................ 26
Changing storage system information .................................................................................... 27
About acquiring the most recent storage system information ..................................................... 27
Acquiring the most recent storage system information .............................................................. 27
Operations available to SMI-S Enabled storage systems .......................................................... 28
Registering hosts ....................................................................................................................... 28
About registering and removing a host .................................................................................. 28
Methods for registering hosts ............................................................................................... 29
Priority for acquiring the WWN ........................................................................................... 30
Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector ....................................................................... 30
Registering hosts manually by specifying the WWN target ...................................................... 32
Registering hosts by using vMA ............................................................................................ 32
Workflow for detecting hosts ................................................................................................ 33
Registering hosts using host scan .......................................................................................... 34
Registering hosts using merge hosts ...................................................................................... 35
About changing host settings and information ........................................................................ 35
Updating host information registered by using Host Data Collector ........................................... 35
Changing settings for a manually registered host .................................................................... 36
Updating host information registered by using vMA ................................................................ 37
Changing settings for a host registered by using Device Manager agent ................................... 38
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