Document Outline

• User Guide
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
  • About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
  • Features
  • What's new
  • System configuration
  • Logging in
  • Navigating the interface
  • Navigating help
  • Operational workflows
    • Process flow
    • Configuring HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
    • Setting up storage resources
    • Setting up users and access control
    • Creating a storage operating environment
    • Allocating storage
    • Monitoring storage
• 2 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets
  • Registering storage systems
    • About registering and removing a storage system
    • Prerequisites for registering a storage system
    • Registering a storage system
    • Changing storage system information
    • About acquiring the most recent storage system information
    • Acquiring the most recent storage system information
    • Operations available to SMI-S enabled storage systems
  • Registering hosts
    • About registering a host
    • Methods for registering hosts
    • Priority for acquiring the WWN
    • Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector
    • Registering hosts manually by specifying the WWN target
    • Registering hosts by using vMA
    • Workflow for detecting hosts
    • Registering hosts using host scan
    • Registering hosts using merge hosts
    • About changing host settings and information
    • Updating host information registered by using Host Data Collector
    • Changing settings for a manually registered host
    • Updating host information registered by using vMA
    • Changing settings for a host registered by using Device Manager agent
    • About removing hosts and releasing associated resources
    • Removing hosts and releasing associated resources
  • Reviewing data collection tasks
    • About data collection tasks
    • Restarting a data collection task
• 3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment
  • Creating and deleting volumes
    • About creating volumes
    • Creating volumes
    • Create Volumes dialog box
    • About shredding volume data
    • Shredding volume data
    • About deleting unallocated volumes
    • Deleting unallocated volumes
    • About creating a LUSE volume
    • Creating a LUSE volume
    • About releasing a LUSE volume
    • Releasing a LUSE volume
  • Virtualizing external storage
    • About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes
    • Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system
    • Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system
    • Unvirtualizing volumes
    • Virtualize Volumes dialog box
  • Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart)
    • About virtualizing storage capacity
    • Creating a THP/Smart pool
    • Create Pool dialog box
    • Verifying THP/Smart pool information
    • Expanding THP/Smart pools
    • Shrinking a THP/Smart pool
    • Modifying THP/Smart pool settings
    • Deleting THP/Smart pools
    • Expanding THP/Smart volumes
    • Reclaiming zero pages
  • Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart)
    • About virtualizing storage tiers
    • Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools
    • Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools
    • Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools
    • Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes
    • Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes
    • Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes
    • Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes
    • Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes
    • Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool
  • Allocating and unallocating volumes
    • About allocating volumes
    • Volume allocation methods
    • Prerequisites for allocating volumes
    • Allocating volumes from general tasks
    • Allocating volumes to selected hosts
    • Allocating selected volumes to hosts
    • Allocating volumes to clustered hosts
    • Allocating volumes by using a keyword search
    • Allocating volumes by using a criteria search
    • Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings
    • Allocate Volumes dialog box
    • About clustered-host storage
    • Creating clustered-host storage
    • About unallocating volumes
    • Unallocating volumes from hosts
    • Unallocate volumes dialog box
  • Managing WWNs by using nicknames
    • About managing WWNs by using nicknames
    • Editing a WWN nickname
  • Managing LUN Paths
    • About LUN path management
    • Editing LUN paths
    • Editing the host mode and host mode options
    • Editing LUN paths when exchanging a failed HBA
    • Editing LUN paths when adding or exchanging an HBA
    • Removing LUN paths after adding an HBA
  • Replicating volumes
    • About replicating volumes (pair management)
    • Copy pair management operations
    • Adding command devices
    • Editing command devices
    • Defining copy pairs
    • Changing the status of a copy pair
  • Data mobility
    • About data mobility
    • Reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab
    • Reports for THP/Smart pools displayed in the Mobility tab
    • Optimizing data placement in a logical group
    • Optimizing data placement in a THP/Smart pool
  • Data migration
    • About data migration
    • Notes on performing data migration
    • Conditions for data migration
    • Migrating data for volume performance
    • Migrating data to a different storage system
    • Migrate data dialog box
    • Prerequisites for migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system
    • Migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system
  • Managing tasks
    • About tasks
    • Viewing task status
    • Rescheduling tasks waiting to be executed
    • Stopping running data migration or data placement profile tasks
    • Canceling scheduled tasks
    • Moving tasks to the History tab
    • Restarting a failed or stopped task
• 4 Grouping resources
  • Managing logical groups
    • About logical groups
    • Creating logical groups
    • Viewing logical group reports
    • Editing logical groups
    • Performing operations from a logical group
    • Deleting logical groups
  • Managing storage tiers
    • About tier-based storage management
    • Values to ensure acceptable tier performance
    • Creating tiers
    • Expanding a tier
  • Managing resource labels
    • About managing resource labels
    • Editing resource labels
    • Searching resource labels
    • Importing storage system resource labels
• 5 Monitoring managed resources and resolving alerts
  • Viewing information summaries
    • About checking system status in the dashboard
    • Accessing the dashboard
    • Customizing the dashboard
    • About the Storage Systems tree
    • Viewing current storage system information
    • About the Hosts tree
    • Viewing current host information
    • About tasks in the global monitoring bar
    • Configuring displayed tasks from the global monitoring bar
  • Managing alerts
    • About alerts
    • Confirming an alert
  • Searching Command View AE Suite resources
    • About searching Command View AE Suite resources
    • Keyword search
    • Criteria search
    • Criteria search dialog box
  • Generating resource reports
    • About generating reports
    • Exporting host information to a CSV file
    • Exporting logical group information to a CSV file
    • Exporting search results to a CSV file
    • Exporting access control information for resources to a CSV file
  • Optimizing storage
    • About optimizing storage
    • Adding an HBA
• 6 Setting up HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
  • Configuring your browser and Java for HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
    • About configuring browser settings
    • Checking management server name resolution
    • Disabling pop-up blocking for IE 7 and later
    • Disabling pop-up blocking for IE 6
    • Setting security options for using Internet Explorer
    • Setting security options for Firefox
    • Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 1.4.2 to link with other products
    • Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 5.0 and 6.0 to link with other products
    • Configuring log output settings
    • Configuring JRE versions from JWS
    • Clearing the cache when upgrading HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
  • Managing users
    • About managing users
    • User ID and password policies
    • User permissions
    • Creating a user account
    • Editing the profile for a user account
    • Editing your own user profile
    • Changing the password for a user account
    • Changing your password
    • Changing permissions for a user account
    • Changing the lock status of user accounts
    • Configuring external authentication for users
    • Configuring external authentication for groups
  • Controlling access to resources
    • About access control
    • Access control examples for HP P9500
    • Resource groups
    • Prerequisites for creating resource groups
    • Creating resource groups
    • Editing a resource group
    • Prerequisites for creating user groups
    • Creating user groups
    • Editing a user group
    • Assigning resource groups and roles to a user group
    • Changing a user’s user group
  • Setting up security
    • About configuring security options
    • Setting a password policy
    • Setting automatic account locking
    • Setting a warning banner message
  • Downloading components
    • About downloading components
    • Downloading agents, CLI, and Host Data Collector files
  • Managing licenses
    • About license management
    • Registering a license
    • Checking license information
    • Information for checking the input history of license keys
• 7 Linking related products
  • Launching other HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite products
    • About launching other HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite products
    • Starting related products
    • Starting Element Manager
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • HP technical support
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
  • Conventions
• A Managing storage resources that have virtual IDs
  • About managing storage resources that have virtual IDs
  • Displaying virtual ID information
  • Allocating volumes to hosts with virtual IDs
• B Operations in Legacy mode
  • About Legacy mode
  • User permissions in Legacy mode
  • Notes on performing data migration in Legacy mode
  • Conditions for data migration in Legacy mode
  • Migrating volume data in Legacy mode
• C CSV export v7 differences
  • Differences in output between Command View AE Suite v7.x and earlier versions
• Glossary
• Index