HP P6000 Replication Solutions Manager User Guide (T3680-96089, October 2012)

5 Host volumes
Working with host volumes
About host volume resources
The Host Volumes content pane displays host volumes that have been discovered by the replication
manager. See GUI window Content pane.
Host volumes are an enabled host's identification of a storage device. See Host volumes overview.
Views
• Tabular list views. See Host volumes list view Host Volumes, Host Volume Groups, Host Disk
Devices, Dynamic Capacity Volumes, and Replica Repositories.
• Graphical tree views. See: Host/Replicable Components tree view, Host/Host
Volume/Component tree view, and Host/Devices/Partitions tree view.
Actions
• Actions in the GUI. See Host volumes actions summary.
• You can also interact with host volumes from a job and the CLUI. See Host volumes actions
cross reference.
Properties
• Properties displayed in the GUI. See Host volumes properties summary.
• You can also display properties from the CLUI. See the CLUI command Show Host_Volume.
Host volume actions summary
The following actions are available on the Host Volume content pane. Some actions have equivalent
job commands or CLUI commands. See Host volumes actions cross reference.
Host volumes
• View Properties. View the properties of a host volume. Procedure.
• Mount. Mount a host volume on an enabled host. Procedure.
• Unmount. Unmount a host volume from an enabled host. Procedure.
• Add to Managed Set. Add a host volume to a managed set. Procedure.
• Remove from Managed Set. Remove a host volume from a managed set. Procedure.
• New DR Group. Create a DR group pair by specifying a host volume. Procedure.
• Instant Restore. Restore a host volume from one of its replicas. Procedure.
• New Container. Create (preallocate) a managed set of virtual disk containers based on a host
volume's size. Procedure.
• Replicate. Create a copy of a host volume. Procedure.
• Extend Capacity. Increase the capacity of the host volume. Procedure.
• Shrink Capacity. Decrease the capacity of the host volume. Procedure.
• Set Dynamic Capacity Policy. Set a policy to automatically extend or shrink a host volume.
Procedure.
• Edit Dynamic Capacity Policy. Change an existing a dynamic capacity policy. Procedure.
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