Administrator Guide

Locating physical disks in a disk pool................................................................................................................................ 87
Renaming a disk pool...........................................................................................................................................................88
Configuring alert notifications for a disk pool.................................................................................................................. 88
Adding unassigned physical disks to a disk pool..............................................................................................................88
Configuring the preservation capacity of a disk pool......................................................................................................89
Changing the modification priority of a disk pool............................................................................................................ 89
Changing the RAID controller module ownership of a disk pool................................................................................... 90
Checking data consistency................................................................................................................................................ 90
Deleting disk pool................................................................................................................................................................. 91
Viewing storage array logical components and associated physical components ......................................................91
Secure disk pools.................................................................................................................................................................92
Changing capacity on existing thin virtual disks.............................................................................................................. 92
Creating thin virtual disk from disk pool........................................................................................................................... 92
Chapter 9: Using SSD cache.......................................................................................................... 94
How SSD cache works....................................................................................................................................................... 94
Benefits of SSD cache........................................................................................................................................................94
Choosing SSD cache parameters......................................................................................................................................94
SSD cache restrictions....................................................................................................................................................... 95
Creating an SSD cache.......................................................................................................................................................95
Viewing physical components associated with an SSD cache......................................................................................95
Locating physical disks in an SSD cache..........................................................................................................................96
Adding physical disks to an SSD cache............................................................................................................................ 96
Removing physical disks from an SSD cache.................................................................................................................. 96
Suspending or resuming SSD caching..............................................................................................................................96
Changing I/O type in an SSD cache................................................................................................................................. 97
Renaming an SSD cache.................................................................................................................................................... 97
Deleting SSD cache.............................................................................................................................................................97
Using the performance modeling tool...............................................................................................................................97
Chapter 10: Premium feature—Snapshot Virtual Disk...................................................................... 99
Snapshot images and groups.............................................................................................................................................99
Snapshot Virtual Disk read/write properties................................................................................................................... 99
Snapshot groups and consistency groups......................................................................................................................100
Snapshot groups.......................................................................................................................................................... 100
Snapshot consistency groups.................................................................................................................................... 100
Understanding snapshot repositories..............................................................................................................................100
Consistency group repositories...................................................................................................................................101
Ranking repository candidates.................................................................................................................................... 101
Using snapshot consistency group to a Remote Replication..................................................................................101
Creating snapshot images................................................................................................................................................. 101
Creating snapshot image............................................................................................................................................. 101
Canceling a pending snapshot image........................................................................................................................ 102
Deleting snapshot image............................................................................................................................................. 102
Scheduling snapshot images............................................................................................................................................ 103
Creating a snapshot schedule.................................................................................................................................... 103
Editing a snapshot schedule....................................................................................................................................... 104
Performing snapshot rollbacks.........................................................................................................................................104
Snapshot rollback limitations...................................................................................................................................... 104
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