11.0 HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide (AX696-96275, December 2013)

managing, 77
agents
disabling SNMP, 94
enabling for SNMP, 93
alarms
customizing on SAN Status Page, 84
displaying , 88
exporting, 88
filtering, 87
monitoring on SAN Status Page, 84
overview, 85
virtual manager in management group, 126
working with, 87
ALB see Adaptive Load Balancing
analyzer
Best Practice, 109
application servers, clustering, 199, 206
application-managed snapshots
converting temporary space from, 173
creating, 165, 167
creating for volume sets, 165
creating schedules for volume sets, 167
creating SmartClone volumes from, 176
defined, 162
deleting, 177
making available, 172, 173
requirements for, 163
rolling back from, 175, 176
assigning Fibre Channel servers to volumes and snapshots,
209, 210
assigning iSCSI servers to volumes and snapshots, 209
assigning servers to volumes and snapshots, 208, 210,
211
boot volume, 210
auto performance protection, 137
storage system inoperable, 137
storage system overloaded, 137
volume availability and, 137
auto tiering see Adaptive Optimization
availability of volumes and snapshots, 16, 18, 137
Availability tab, 16, 18
available system pool, 104
B
backing out
of Remote Copy evaluation, 233
of scripting evaluation, 234
bandwidth, changing local settings, 113
base DN for Active Directory, 81
best practice
Active Directory, 81
frame size, 49
network, 46
network configuration, changing, 47
network interface bonding, 53
NIC bonds, 63
number of managers in management group, 118
recommended numbers for management group storage
items, 109
setting volume size, 142
single disk replacement checklist, 43
snapshots, 162
speed and duplex settings, 48
using snapshots for protection against data deletion,
162
Best Practice Summary
cluster-level data protection, 110
customizing on SAN Status Page, 84
disk level data protection, 110
disk protection using RAID, 110
disk RAID consistency, 110
large single-system SATA cluster, 110
monitoring on SAN Status Page, 83
network bond consistency, 111
network bonding, 111
network flow control consistency, 111
network frame size consistency, 111
overview, 109
systems running managers, 111
volume access, 111
volume-level data protection, 111
bind user name, 80
bladesystems, 14
block device, iSCSI as, 152
block storage system, 152
bonds
Active-Passive, 56
Adaptive Load Balancing, 61
Link Aggregation Dynamic Mode, 59
network interface, 52
supported with 10 GbE NICS, 55
unsupported with 10 GbE NICS, 55
boot devices
checking status of dedicated, 19
replacing drive for dedicated, 20
boot volume, 210
BOOTP, 52
C
capacity
clusters, 132
clusters and usable space in, 151
disk capacity and volume size, 152
extending StoreVirtual VSA by adding disks, 40
monitoring on SAN Status Page, 84
of the SAN, 141
storage systems, 132
capacity management
and deleting snapshots, 148
and scheduled snapshots, 148, 166
monitoring SAN for, 148
viewing SAN capacity and usage, 148
volume size and snapshots, 148
capacity planning
full provisioning, 141
thin provisioning, 142
volume size, 141
caution
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