HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) version 2.1 User Guide

1. In the Navigation tree, select Arrays.
The list of arrays appears in the content pane.
2. In the bottom right-hand corner, click Resync All Arrays.
The Resync All Arrays confirmation window appears.
3. Click Resync All Arrays.
The arrays are resynchronized and list of available arrays is displayed.
NOTE: This procedure resynchronizes all resources of the appropriate type when no items
are selected. If any items are selected then the action just resynchronizes the selected items
(and the button text is changed to reflect this).
Quarantining resources
Quarantine is a state flag which exists on each resource which when set is referred to as
quarantining the resource. When a resource is quarantined, SPM does not use the resource to
construct new services nor does SPM perform any automated configuration on the resource. SPM
leaves it in its current state. Existing resourced services using quarantined resources therefore cannot
be reconfigured (reactivated), but otherwise are unaffected by the quarantine state.
The quarantine state may be set or unset manually by the administrator and may also be set by
SPM. SPM never clears the quarantine state; the administrator must clear the state when it is safe
for SPM to begin using the resource again.
Resources are placed in quarantine by:
• The recovery process — As part of SPM recovery, after an SPM catalog is restored from
backup and SPM is started in Internal Recovery mode, all resources are resynchronized from
the device. If SPM detects a configuration change between the recovered catalog and the
device then the resource is put into quarantine. This usually means something happened to
the resource or catalog after the SPM catalog backup occurred that was lost on restore, and
the admin may need to update the SPM catalog manually before the resource is safe to be
brought out of quarantine. See the Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.1
Central Management Server (Windows) White Paper, at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/
docs, for more information on performing this process.
• Service deactivation — If a Service Deactivation Policy of “Quarantine Resource” is used,
then when the service is deactivated, SPM removes the volume's presentations and place the
volume in quarantine. This is useful if the admin does not want volume data to be lost or
overwritten on or after service deactivation until archive or aging processes outside of SPM
have occurred.
• Manually set by the administrator — At any time the administrator can set or unset the
quarantine state of a resource. This may be useful when performing maintenance or upgrades
on a resource to ensure SPM does not attempt to perform automation on the resource during
the maintenance window, or at any other time the administrator wants to suspend SPM from
performing configuration on a resource.
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