10.5 HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide (AX696-96269, March 2013)

Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup...........................................................................206
Persistent targets or favorite targets.....................................................................................206
HP StoreVirtual DSM for Microsoft MPIO settings..................................................................206
Disk management............................................................................................................206
Planning Fibre Channel server connections to management groups.............................................206
Adding a Fibre Channel server connection..........................................................................206
Manually configuring a Fibre Channel initiator....................................................................207
Deleting a manually configured Fibre Channel initiator....................................................207
Editing a Fibre Channel server connection...........................................................................207
Deleting a Fibre Channel server connection.........................................................................208
Completing the Fibre Channel setup...................................................................................208
Clustering server connections.................................................................................................208
Requirements for clustering servers.....................................................................................208
Creating a server cluster...................................................................................................209
Viewing the relationship between storage systems, volumes, and servers.................................210
Editing a server cluster......................................................................................................210
Deleting a server cluster....................................................................................................210
Assigning iSCSI server connections access to volumes...............................................................211
Assigning server iSCSI connections from a volume................................................................211
Assigning volumes from an iSCSI connection.......................................................................211
Assigning volumes to Fibre Channel servers.............................................................................212
Assigning Fibre Channel servers from a volume....................................................................212
Assigning volumes from a Fibre Channel server...................................................................212
Assigning a boot volume to a Fibre Channel server..............................................................213
Editing server connection and volume assignments....................................................................213
17 Monitoring performance .......................................................................214
Prerequisites.........................................................................................................................214
Introduction to using performance information..........................................................................214
What can I learn about my SAN?......................................................................................214
Current SAN activities example.....................................................................................215
Workload characterization example..............................................................................215
Fault isolation example.....................................................................................................215
What can I learn about my volumes?......................................................................................216
Most active volumes examples...........................................................................................216
Activity generated by a specific server example...................................................................217
Planning for SAN improvements.............................................................................................217
Network utilization to determine if NIC bonding could improve performance example..............217
Load comparison of two clusters example............................................................................218
Load comparison of two volumes example...........................................................................218
Accessing and understanding the Performance Monitor window.................................................219
Performance Monitor toolbar.............................................................................................220
Performance monitor graph...............................................................................................220
Performance monitor table................................................................................................221
Understanding the performance statistics.............................................................................222
Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters.............................................................................224
Performance monitoring and analysis concepts.........................................................................224
Changing the sample interval and time zone............................................................................225
Adding statistics...................................................................................................................225
Viewing statistic details.....................................................................................................226
Removing and clearing statistics.............................................................................................227
Removing a statistic..........................................................................................................227
Clearing the sample data..................................................................................................227
Clearing the display.........................................................................................................227
Resetting defaults.............................................................................................................227
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