HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) version 2.3 User Guide

Deleting a security group...............................................................................................53
Resynchronizing resources........................................................................................................53
Changing the resync interval...............................................................................................54
Quarantining resources...........................................................................................................54
Managing templates...............................................................................................................55
Creating templates.............................................................................................................55
View/edit/delete templates.................................................................................................56
7 Monitoring the storage catalog..................................................................58
Monitoring inventory levels......................................................................................................58
Monitoring and managing jobs................................................................................................58
Responding to storage services.................................................................................................58
8 Support and other resources......................................................................61
Related documentation............................................................................................................61
HP technical support...............................................................................................................61
HP websites...........................................................................................................................62
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................62
9 Documentation feedback...........................................................................63
A Troubleshooting.......................................................................................64
Viewing operational logs.........................................................................................................64
Addressing common issues......................................................................................................64
Limitations.........................................................................................................................64
Presenting an in-use storage volume to an unintended consumer may result in data loss..........64
Storage volumes must be managed by one SPM................................................................64
Required version of Brocade Network Advisor and HP B-Series Network Advisor...................65
Non-Brocade SAN environments must have unmanaged networks in SPM.............................65
Importing a large number of volumes is time consuming and may result in failure..................65
HP 3PAR autonomic groups not supported in SPM.............................................................65
SPM cannot import or resynchronize HP XP/P9000 disk array resources if they are locked by
RWC...........................................................................................................................65
Firmware for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Systems..............................................................65
Storage Provisioning Manager issues....................................................................................65
SPM installation fails......................................................................................................65
Installation of SPM Storage Module fails...........................................................................65
User cannot log in to SPM..............................................................................................66
The user is unable to login through the SPM user interface..................................................66
SPM does not launch in browser.....................................................................................66
Issues with multiple SPM servers managing the same volumes.............................................66
Cannot import HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Systems...........................................................66
Removing initiators from an existing HP 3PAR volume presentation may fail...........................67
HP P6000/EVA arrays and/or HP XP/P9000 arrays are marked as Offline when they appear
to be functioning correctly outside of SPM........................................................................67
Modifying a catalog storage pool entry and unmasking the volume removes candidates........68
SPM reports volume capacity in the wrong format..............................................................68
Restart is required if SPM loses connectivity to an HP XP/P9000 disk array while it is attempting
to access the array .......................................................................................................68
Importing a volume (LDEV) with exactly 256 presentation paths does not succeed..................68
SPM may mark an array offline when a volume is deleted during on-demand provisioning......68
Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Mode must be disabled...............................................69
One of multiple simultaneous template edits fails...............................................................69
No matching candidates found.......................................................................................69
Services provisioned using HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System may become nonconformant
after upgrade to SPM 2.2...............................................................................................70
SPM communications with Brocade Network Advisor or HP 3PAR storage systems.................70
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