HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Logical Server Management User Guide

Pre-populated Catalog Storage Entry storage type, and clicking Add Entry. The server administrator
can then select the appropriate volume service(s) to fulfill the storage requests.
For information about configuring SPM, see “Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)”
(page 27).
By default, SPM will create storage volumes with the prefix “SPM_”. The storage architect can
specify custom prefixes when defining SPM storage templates. All SPM provisioning from manually
created storage pool entries use the HP Matrix Default Storage Template. SPM provisioning done
for Matrix infrastructure orchestration services can use other SPM storage templates.
By default, SPM will create host entries on the storage solutions using a prefix “LSM”. This can be
customized by adding or modifying the property SPM_HOSTNAME_PREFIX within the
lsa.properties file. This prefix can be five characters or less due to host name limitations on
the storage arrays. If not selected, the default prefix used is “LSM”. The rest of the host name will
be the initiator WWN defined within the host definition to guarantee name uniqueness.
By default, SPM will zone storage to all controller ports on a given fabric/network. SPM does
support a whitelist for HP 3PAR StoreServ storage (so a storage administrator can restrict SPM to
a subset of the storage ports). SPM also supports the concept of zoning to port groups (subsets of
ports on a given fabric/network).
For more information, see the following at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs"www.hp.com/
go/matrixoe/docs:
• Faster Storage Provisioning in the Matrix Operating Environment: use of the HP Storage
Provisioning Manager storage catalog with controlled storage operations
• HP Storage Provisioning Manager User Guide
• HP Matrix Operating Environment and HP Storage Provisioning Manager support for port
groups white paper
• The online help for SPM is available at https://localhost:8000/help/index.html.
NOTE: By default, Matrix OE finds and communicates with the SPM service using the host
specification of “localhost”. If you want to use SPM from Matrix OE in a clustered environment,
edit the lsa.properties file, found in the default location at C:\Program Files\HP\Virtual
Server environment\conf\lsa.
Change the SPM_HOSTlocalhost property to <SPM_HOST><cluster FQDN>
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