HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0109, July 2009)

Presenting SVSP virtual disks to application servers
See “Presenting SVSP virtual disks to servers” on page 33.
Presenting hosts in SVSP
See “Presenting SVSP virtual disks to servers” on page 33.
Advanced tasks
The following are tasks that are performed after the completion of the more basic tasks.
Creating synchronous mirrors
See the “Using mirroring” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform
Manager user guide for information on using synchronous mirroring.
Import data from existing array virtual disks to reuse the data
See the “Using migration” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform
Manager user guide for information on copying data from one storage pool to another.
Creating PiTs and snapshots using HP Business Copy SVSP
See the “Using snapshots” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform
Manager user guide for information on creating Point-in-Time (PiT) images and snapshots.
Creating snapclones using HP Business Copy SVSP
See the “Using snapclones” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform
Manager user guide for information on creating snapclones.
Creating remote mirrors using HP Continuous Access SVSP
See the “Using mirroring” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform
Manager user guide for information on using asynchronous mirroring.
Maintaining write order or crash consistency across multiple virtual disks
See the “Working with virtual disk groups” chapter in the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization
Services Platform Manager user guide for information on creating, viewing, managing virtual disk
groups (VDGs) for write order consistency.
Best practices
The key to a successful SVSP implementation is planning ahead in terms of how the existing storage
array is used to build the needed SVSP storage pools. For example, while it is possible to build one
large pool and carve it up into many small LUNs, such an implementation might negatively impact
system performance. To reduce the potential for performance issues, you need to build the pool and
back-end LUs to an appropriate size.
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