HP Insight Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Management 6.1 User Guide

Figure 6-14 SAN storage
See “Configuring HP SIM for SAN storage validation” (page 59) for important setup information.
Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM), automatically installed as part of HP Insight Dynamics,
is a software tool that provides a service-centric management interface to storage, allowing
storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage services from a storage catalog. It securely
automates storage management tasks.
SPM enables the storage administrator to define a catalog of storage volumes. These volumes
can be automatically matched against storage requests specified in Insight Dynamics as storage
pool entries. Matching is done based on size, RAID level, desired operating system mode and
presentation, and optional text tags. The storage administrator is able to grant appropriate
privileges for performing storage operations (view only, can modify presentation) on the entire
catalog, arrays, or individual volumes.
Storage operations (such as changing operating system mode or adjusting LUN masking) is
performed automatically, if appropriately authorized. Changing OS mode automatically enables
a smaller number of volumes to be pre-provisioned, with Insight Dynamics adjusting the hostmode
as appropriate when a storage pool entry is affiliated with a logical server. LUN masking can be
used to ensure a data volume is made invisible prior to operating system deployment, and then
made visible again after successful operating system installation without requiring manual
intervention by the storage administrator.
SPM receives storage requests from a server administrator using logical server management
screems. It then identifies all volume services on the network and returns that list to the Storage
Pool Entry: SAN screen. This screen is viewable by selecting Modify→Logical Server Storage
Pools..., selecting the SAN storage type, and clicking Add Entry. The server administrator can
then select the appropriate volume service(s) to fulfill the storage requests.
NOTE: The Use Catalog Storage checkbox must be checked for SPM catalog storage options
to be displayed.
For information about configuring SPM, see “Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)”
(page 60).
For more information, see HP Storage Provisioning Manager User Guide at
www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs. The online help for SPM is available at
https://servername:8001/help/index.html.
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