HP Logical Server Management Best Practices

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storage pool entry can work with the storage administrator for necessary corrections (e.g., if a volume was intended
for use by Linux but was presented for Windows use).
Having validated the storage volume information is acceptable, the server administrator can mark the ports as ready
(assuming the storage administrator has completed SAN zoning prior to returning the storage details). If SAN zoning
has not yet been successfully completed, the volumes can later be marked ready when that completes. Validation is
not necessary when using SPM since the information returned has already been gathered livefrom the storage.
Similarly, the ready checkbox is also not necessary, as the storage administrator would not make volumes available
in the catalog until they have been suitably zoned. Thus, any match returned from the catalog is considered valid,
zoned, and ready for immediate use by a logical server.
Logical server storage pools
As noted earlier, the system administrator can define storage while creating each individual logical server, or can
provide a more flexible environment through use of pre-allocated storage pool entries or those auto-generated by
Matrix infrastructure orchestration. Those pre-allocated entries can be created by either the server administrator or the
storage administrator. In environments with strong boundaries between server and storage administrators, the server
administrator can request the needed boot and data volumes, which the storage administrator can pre-allocate. The
specifics of those volumes can be saved in logical server storage pool entries, which can be used by the server
administrator (or the infrastructure orchestration software) as logical servers are defined and activated.
It is necessary to define storage pool entries in advance of logical server definition to take advantage of the HP SPM
integration with the ability to select from among storage catalog matching candidates. If the storage is being defined
during the definition of the logical server, there is no storage catalog integration.
The Manage Storage Pool interface is accessed from the grey menu in the Virtualization tab; select Modify and then
Logical Server Storage Pools… (as shown in Figure 13).
Figure 13: Menu access to manage logical server storage pools
Figure 14 shows the Manage Storage Pool interface. There is a logical server storage pool for each portability group.
By default, the screen shows all storage pool entries. The portability group selection at the top of the screen can be
used to show entries for a particular portability group, while the Filter Options section provides additional control
over which storage pool entries are displayed. For example, showing only available entries, or those with a specific
OS or tag value. If a storage pool entry is associated with a logical server, that relationship will be displayed.