HP XP7 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide (H6F56-96009)

Only the LDEVs assigned to the user are displayed.
DescriptionItem
Displays the LDEV identifier, which is the combination of LDKC, CU, and LDEV.LDEV ID
Displays the LDEV name.LDEV Name
Displays the pool-VOL capacity.Capacity
Displays the parity group ID.Parity Group ID
Displays the RAID level. If an LDEV is an external volume, a hyphen (-) is
displayed.
RAID Level
Displays the data drive type and RPM. When the volume is the external volume,
Drive Type displays External Storage.
Drive Type/RPM
Displays the emulation type.Emulation Type
Displays the type of the LDEV.Provisioning Type
Basic: Internal volume.
External: External volume.
Displays whether the cache mode is enabled. If the LDEV is not an external
volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.
Cache Mode
Displays the resource group names and IDs of the LDEV. The ID is provided in
parentheses.
Resource Group Name (ID)
External LDEV Tier Rank
Specify the tier rank of the external volume. If there is no external volume in the Available Pool
Volumes table or Selected Pool Volumes table, you cannot select this option.
Add
When you select a row in the Available Pool Volumes table and click Add, the selected pool-VOL
is added to the Selected Pool Volumes table.
NOTE: Up to 1,024 volumes can be added including the volumes already in the pool.
When adding a volume to the pool for which Smart Pool is enabled, note the following:
For a pool, you can add volumes whose Drive Type/RPM settings are the same and whose RAID
Levels are different. For example, you can add the following volumes to the same pool:
• Volume whose Drive Type/RPM is SAS/15K and whose RAID Level is 5 (3D+1P)
• Volume whose Drive Type/RPM is SAS/15K and whose RAID Level is 5 (7D+1P)
Remove
When you select a row in Selected Pool Volumes table and click Remove, the selected pool-VOL
is removed from the Selected Pool Volumes table.
358 Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers GUI reference