HP XP7 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide (H6F56-96009)
Thin Provisioning
The following table provides information about specific Thin Provisioning conditions that must be
observed when using Resource Partition.
ConditionOperation name
If LDEVs for Thin Provisioning are created, the following must be assigned to the
Storage Administrator group that is permitted to manage them.
Create LDEVs
• LDEV ID
• Pool VOL of the pool
If LDEVs for Thin Provisioning are deleted, the following must be assigned to the
Storage Administrator group that is permitted to manage them.
Delete LDEVs
• LDEV ID
• Pool VOL of the pool
Volumes to be specified as pool-VOLS must be assigned to the Storage Administrator
group permitted to manage them.
Create pools
Expand pools
All the volumes that are specified when creating a pool must belong to the same
resource group.
Pool-VOLs of the specified pool must be assigned to the Storage Administrator
group permitted to manage them.
Edit pools
Delete pools
You can expand only the V-VOLs that are assigned to the Storage Administrator
group permitted to manage them.
Expand V-VOLs
You can reclaim or stop reclaiming zero pages only for the THP-VOLs that are
assigned to the Storage Administrator group permitted to manage them.
Reclaim zero pages
Stop reclaiming zero pages
DKA Encryption
The following table provides information about specific DKA Encryption conditions that must be
observed when using Resource Partition.
ConditionOperation name
When you specify a parity group and open the Edit Encryption window, the
specified parity group and LDEVs belonging to the parity group must be assigned
to the Storage Administrator group permitted to manage them.
Edit encryption keys
When you open the Edit Encryption window without specifying a parity group,
more than one parity group and LDEVs belonging to the parity group must be
assigned to the Storage Administrator group permitted to manage them.
LUN Manager
The following table provides information about specific LUN Manager conditions that must be
observed when using Resource Partition.
ConditionOperation name
When you specify host groups and open the Add LUN Paths window, the specified
host groups must be assigned to the Storage Administrator group permitted to
manage them.
Add LUN paths
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