HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

Provisioning Manager536
Managing Storage
This section contains the following topics:
• Setting Up Storage Partitioning, page 536
• Modifying the Cache Settings (LSI and Sun 6130), page 541
• Changing the Owner of a Volume (LSI, CLARiiON and Sun 6130), page 542
• Managing Storage Pools, page 542
• Managing Volumes, page 544
• Rules for Creating Host Security Groups, page 551
• Managing Host Security Groups, page 556
• General Provisioning Issues, page 563
• Provisioning Issues by Vendor, page 563
Setting Up Storage Partitioning
Each storage vendor treats storage partitioning differently. For example, Hitachi and EMC ship their
storage systems with the volumes already created. Other storage vendors, such as LSI ship their
storage system as an empty array.
Despite the differences among storage systems, you can still use this product to manage your
provisioning. Some tasks, such as volume creation, might create different results depending on the
type of storage system. To learn how host security groups are created on your storage systems, see
”Rules for Creating Host Security Groups” on page 551.
For details about setting up storage partitioning, see ”How to Set Up Storage Partitioning” on
page 541
To learn which storage systems are supported, see Table 135 on page 536 and Table 136 on
page 537.
Table 135 Provisioning and Pool Support
Storage
System
Storage
Provisioning
Create/Dele
te
Pool
Create
Pool Using
Settings
1
Additional Information
3PAR N N N
CLARiiON
Y
1
YY See ”Additional
Information About
CLARiiON Storage
Systems” on page 540
LSI and Sun 6130 Y Y Y
HDS Y N N
HP EVA Y Y Y