HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) version 2.3 User Guide

Presenting volumes on HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Systems..........................................................84
Creating hosts on an HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System.............................................................85
Controlling HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System port usage...........................................................85
Working with HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System active VLUNs and VLUN templates......................86
Working with autonomic groups...............................................................................................86
Volume Migration With Adaptive Optimization And Peer Motion..................................................87
Importing a large number of volumes........................................................................................87
Renaming CPGs.....................................................................................................................87
Deleting CPGs...................................................................................................................88
Backup and restore handling on HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System volumes.................................88
Working with other HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System features....................................................88
Peer Motion......................................................................................................................88
Peer Persistence.................................................................................................................88
Persistent Ports...................................................................................................................88
Adaptive Optimization........................................................................................................88
E Working with HP XP/P9000 disk arrays......................................................89
Supported configurations.........................................................................................................89
Understanding how to import HP XP/P9000 disk arrays into SPM.................................................89
Understanding HP XP/P9000 disk array capacity reporting.........................................................89
Storage pool capacity........................................................................................................89
Understanding HP XP/P9000 disk array presentation, mapping, and masking...............................90
Working with HP XP/P9000 disk array host modes.....................................................................90
Creating hosts on an HP XP/P9000 disk array......................................................................90
Backup and restore handling on XP volumes...............................................................................91
F Working with unmanaged networks............................................................92
Overview..............................................................................................................................92
Unmanaged SANs.............................................................................................................92
Storage administrator changes requested by SPM..............................................................92
Zone removal...............................................................................................................92
Simple unmanaged networks...............................................................................................92
Fibre Channel unmanaged networks................................................................................93
WWN patterns.............................................................................................................93
Importing an existing unmanaged network.......................................................................94
Creating an unmanaged network....................................................................................95
Unmanaged network management..................................................................................97
XML file lifecycle................................................................................................................97
XML file location................................................................................................................97
XML errors........................................................................................................................97
Network names.................................................................................................................98
Endpoints and zones..........................................................................................................98
Proxy WWNs...................................................................................................................98
Allow external processing...................................................................................................98
Network types...................................................................................................................98
XML object model...................................................................................................................99
Network...........................................................................................................................99
Zone...........................................................................................................................99
Endpoint....................................................................................................................100
Name........................................................................................................................100
ZoningState................................................................................................................100
AddressPattern............................................................................................................100
Zone..............................................................................................................................100
Endpoint....................................................................................................................100
Name........................................................................................................................100
AddressPattern............................................................................................................100
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