HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform 3.0 Virtualization Services Manager Demo Mode user guide (5697-0298, January 2010)

Object pane
The Object pane at the top right shows the object selected on the Navigation pane. For example, if
you choose SVSP Domains, “my_domain” will show on the Object pane.
Properties pane
The Properties pane at the bottom right shows different tabs for the selected objects in the upper pane.
Therefore, if you select the “my_domain” domain, you can see the Properties tab for this entity.
SVSP domain
In the SVSP world, there is a concept of SVSP domains. The SVSP domain includes all the storage
that a pair of VSMs manage. We are now looking at a domain called “my_domain.” This domain
has two VSMs for redundancy. We can see the two VSM servers when you click on the SVSP tab.
The VSMs work in active/passive mode as you can see. The GUI showing the VSMs indicates that
one is Active and the other as Passive.
Entities and back-end LUs
If you expand the Entities node on the Navigation Pane, you can see all the objects that the VSM can
see, create, and manage.
Back-end LUs are the storage LUNs presented from the storage array (like an EVA) to the VSMs and
DPMs. You can see the back-end LU properties, like the LU number, vendor, size, and so on.
You have the option to encapsulate existing back-end LUs under SVSP management. If the back-end
LU has been used by a server or application before the SVSP solution was put in place, and therefore
contains data, the user can “Import-in-Place” the back-end LU and convert it into a SVSP virtual disk.
The virtual disk provisioned to the server will be the same capacity and contain the same data as
before the encapsulation.
You may also want to rename the back-end LU. By default, you create the back-end LU names by
combining the WWNN and the LU number. One of the nice things about this GUI is that it permits
you to rename the back-end LUs with more meaningful names. Right-click on a specific back-end LU,
and then select Manage > Rename.
Demonstration of GUI orientation and basic SVSP client functionality32