HP Insight Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Management 6.1 User Guide

1. Enter the “Storage pool entry definition” (page 78)
2. Optional: Select a tag from the “Tag selections” (page 78) table to attach to this storage pool
entry
3. Enter the “Port definition” (page 79)
4. Enter the “Volume and path definition” (page 79)
5. Optional: Verify “Validation status” (page 81)
6. Check Ready to “Manage server WWNs” (page 81)
Storage pool entry definition
Each portability group contains one predefined storage pool. A storage pool entry can be
preconfigured and associated with logical servers at a later time. You create, manage, and modify
storage pool entries using Manage Storage Pool. You can also create a storage pool entry by
inserting a storage entry into the storage pool.
1. Optional: Change the name of the storage pool entry by typing in the name box. Each storage
pool entry is given a unique default name.
2. Optional: Enter a description for the storage pool entry. If you enter a description, it is
displayed in the Select Pool Entry drop-down menu on the Modify Storage Configuration
tab and the Create Storage Configuration screen.
3. Select an operating system from the drop-down menu.
4. Optional: Change the Maximum Number of Sharers (maximum number of logical servers
that will be allowed to share this storage pool entry), then click Update Maximum Sharers.
As logical servers share this storage entry, they are assigned one specific server WWN per
port.
5. Optional: Check the Use Catalog Storage checkbox to display catalog storage options on
this screen (such as the Show Candidates button in the Volume & Path Definition table).
Check this checkbox if you preconfigured catalog storage using HP Storage Provisioning
Manager. See “Setting up SPM for use with logical server storage” (page 84) for more
information.
6. Optional: Check the Request Binding checkbox to indicate that you have chosen from the
candidate volume choices and now want to make those choices permanent, binding those
volumes to the storage pool entry (and ensuring that the volumes are not available as
candidates for other requests). This checkbox is enabled only if Use Catalog Storage is
checked.
Tag selections
The Tag List table allows you to select up to 16 storage tags to associate with the storage pool
entry.
1. Select a storage tag from the drop-down menu. Your selection is highlighted.
2. To create a storage tag, press the Manage Tags button on the Manage Storage Pool screen.
(Press Cancel on this screen to return to the Manage Storage Pool screen.)
78 Defining storage for logical servers