HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Best Practices Guide (5697-0935, May 2011)

Size the SVSP solution appropriately.........................................................................................64
15 SVSP management..................................................................................65
Removing a failed back-end drive from the configuration..............................................................65
Importing and exporting arrays and LUs into an SVSP configuration..............................................65
Import and migrate............................................................................................................65
Import then export..............................................................................................................65
Import, clone, and return capacity........................................................................................66
Import from array...............................................................................................................66
Licenses.................................................................................................................................66
16 Support and other resources.....................................................................68
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................68
Subscription service................................................................................................................68
Related information.................................................................................................................68
HP websites......................................................................................................................68
SVSP white papers.............................................................................................................68
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................69
HP product documentation survey.............................................................................................69
Product feedback....................................................................................................................69
A Thin provisioning and operating system interaction.......................................70
Executive summary.................................................................................................................70
ThP overview..........................................................................................................................70
ThP and its value....................................................................................................................70
Configuring ThP onSVSP—points to note....................................................................................71
Configuring ThP on SVSP—points to avoid.................................................................................72
SVSP ThP thresholds and alarms...............................................................................................72
ThP virtual disk threshold.....................................................................................................72
ThP pool threshold.............................................................................................................73
SVSP ThP limitations and guidelines..........................................................................................74
Controlling the run-away process..............................................................................................74
Challenges.......................................................................................................................74
Proposed solution...............................................................................................................74
Benefits............................................................................................................................75
Host file system considerations..................................................................................................75
Oracle 11g and ThP...........................................................................................................76
Auto-extend.......................................................................................................................76
VMware support using SVSP ThP..............................................................................................76
Glossary....................................................................................................77
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