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

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Additional Information About CLARiiON Storage Systems
The EMC Navisphere® CLI is required to communicate with the CLARiiON storage system. The
CLARiiON storage system must be configured to recognized the management server as a privileged
user. For more information, see ”EMC Navisphere CLI Is Required” on page 564.
Additional Information About HP EVA Arrays
• To determine provisioning support for HP StorageWorks Arrays, see Table 135 on page 536
and Table 136 on page 537.
• EVA arrays can only be provisioned if they are actively managed by the Command View server
that they are discovered through.
When an EVA is discovered by the built-in EVA provider, a cache is created and populated with
the current array configuration. Each subsequent cache refresh will start 30 minutes after
completion of the previous cache refresh. The time the cache refresh takes depends on factors
such as the EVA configuration, model, and SAN traffic.
When you perform a provisioning operation, for example, create, delete, or modify a pool, or
volume, the cache information about provisioning is immediately updated. If you provision an
EVA using Command View EVA or a different management station, the cached information
about the EVA will not be accurate until the cache is refreshed.
Additional Information About IBM DS and ESS
IBM and other storage systems that use external providers show raw capacity for a storage pool,
instead of formatted capacity.
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The “Create Volume Using Settings” column refers to the provisioning capability on the
management server that lets you create different kinds of volumes from a pool depending on
whether you want it optimized, such as for streaming, random access or high availability.
Additional Information About IBM DSS and IBM ESS
Volume groups are not represented in the provisioning or properties of IBM storage systems. The
host security groups are based on a host connection, which does not give any indication as to which
volume groups each of them belongs. A Volume group can have many host connections, but only
one host connection can be part of a volume group.
If there is a failure in a Wizard Provisioning operation on the IBM ESS F20 array, the failure is not
reported to the management server from the IBM ESS management software. The Wizard
Provisioning UI hangs, appears busy, and becomes unresponsive.
Additional Information About Xiotech
During a provisioning operating on Xiotech, the Provisioning Manager interface remains busy and
eventually times out. You can close the provisioning page after a few minutes and check on the
array, which should be updated properly.
For more information about how storage provisioning works on your storage system, see the
following topics .
• Issues Specific to CLARiiON Storage Systems, page 564
• Issues Specific to EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems, page 564
• Issues Specific to HDS Storage Systems, page 566