HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager User Guide (December 2005)

Managing Storage Pools 79
5 Managing Storage Pools
This chapter explains how to manage storage pools using Provisioning Manager.
• Managing a Storage Pool (section
5-1 )
• Viewing a Storage Pool Overview (section 5-2 )
• Viewing Storage Pool Usage Status for Each Storage Subsystem Model (section
5-3 )
• Viewing Storage Pool Usage Status for Each RAID Level (section
5-4 )
• Viewing Storage Pool Usage Status for Each Storage Subsystem Series (section
5-5 )
• Viewing Storage Pool Usage Status for Each Storage Subsystem (section
5-6 )
• Viewing a List of Unallocated Volumes on a Host (section
5-7 )
• Allocating a Volume to a Host From a List of Unallocated Volumes (section 5-8 )
• Viewing a List of Allocated Volumes on a Host (section
5-9 )
• Allocating a Volume on a Host from a List of Allocated Volumes (section
5-10 )
• Releasing a Volume Allocated on a Host from a List of Allocated Volumes (section 5-11 )
• Moving Volumes between Storage Pools (section
5-12 )
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5-1 Managing a Storage Pool
Provisioning Manager manages volumes that exist in multiple storage subsystems as a single logical storage
area (a storage pool). Provisioning Manager enables you to do the following to manage storage pools.
• View a storage pool from the following perspectives:
• Storage subsystem for each model
• Storage subsystem for each RAID level
• Storage subsystem for each series
• Each storage subsystem
• View a list of volumes allocated to the host
• View a list of volumes not allocated to the host
• Allocate and release volumes in the storage pool
• Move volumes between storage pools
A storage pool is associated with a user group. User groups can have a hierarchical relationship with other
user groups. The users who belong to a user group can access the storage pools associated with lower-level
user groups. For example, suppose that the parent group P_Group has child groups C_Group01 and
C_Group02, and the child user group C_Group01 has the grandchild group GC_Group.
Figure 5-1 illustrates
these relationships.