HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.4.1-00 User Guide (TB581-96337, March 2013)

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 41
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 41
3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment ............................. 43
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 43
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 43
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 43
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 44
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 44
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 44
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 44
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 45
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing storage ................................................................................................................... 45
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 46
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 46
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 46
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 47
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 48
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 48
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 49
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 49
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 49
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 50
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 50
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 50
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 50
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 51
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 52
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 52
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 52
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 53
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 53
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 54
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 54
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 55
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 56
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 56
Scheduling data placement profile tasks for Smart volumes ...................................................... 57
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 58
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 58
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 58
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 59
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 60
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 60
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ...................................................................................... 61
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 61
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts ..................................................................................... 61
Allocating volumes by using a keyword search ....................................................................... 62
Allocating volumes by using a criteria search ......................................................................... 63
Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings ............................................................... 63
Allocate Volumes dialog box ............................................................................................... 63
About LUN path management .............................................................................................. 68
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