HP Storage Platform Storage Provisioning Tool for StoreAll User Guide

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
Installation...............................................................................................................................6
Provisioning best practices....................................................................................................6
Command overview..................................................................................................................6
Basic syntax........................................................................................................................6
Command syntax.................................................................................................................7
Options..............................................................................................................................7
Obtaining help....................................................................................................................7
Displaying the version...............................................................................................................7
2 StoreAll 9730 storage provisioning...............................................................8
Definitions...............................................................................................................................8
Storage configurations..............................................................................................................8
Hard disk drive configuration................................................................................................8
Storage layout.....................................................................................................................8
Balanced capacity configuration............................................................................................9
Maximum capacity configuration...........................................................................................9
Performance configuration...................................................................................................10
Volume configuration..........................................................................................................11
Choosing storage profiles for auto-provisioning......................................................................12
Command reference and examples...........................................................................................12
Listing disk drives...............................................................................................................12
Listing volumes..................................................................................................................14
Listing enclosure drives........................................................................................................14
Viewing parity initialization status........................................................................................16
Provisioning storage...........................................................................................................17
Validating storage .............................................................................................................18
Field support commands.....................................................................................................18
Repairing a storage system.............................................................................................19
Deleting a volume.........................................................................................................19
Reconfiguring spares.....................................................................................................20
3 StoreAll 9320 storage provisioning.............................................................21
Definitions.............................................................................................................................21
Storage configurations............................................................................................................21
Supported hard drives........................................................................................................21
Storage layout...................................................................................................................21
9320 Vdisk layouts............................................................................................................22
Drive configurations...........................................................................................................23
Command reference and examples...........................................................................................25
Controller options..............................................................................................................25
Listing disk drives...............................................................................................................25
Listing volumes..................................................................................................................26
Listing enclosure drives........................................................................................................27
Provisioning storage...........................................................................................................28
Validating storage .............................................................................................................29
Validate storage profile..................................................................................................29
Field support commands.....................................................................................................29
Repairing a storage system.............................................................................................29
Deleting a volume.........................................................................................................30
Deleting a spare...........................................................................................................31
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