HP Storage Platform Storage Provisioning Tool for StoreAll User Guide

NOTE: The other D6000 drawer has a symmetrical storage layout.
The base D6000 SKU ships with 18 drives in each drawer, totaling 36 drives. The initial 18 drives
per drawer are filled in the rearmost bays (18 to 35).
The expansion SKU ships with 17 drives in each drawer, totaling 34 drives. These drives fill the
remaining 17 bays in each drawer towards the front bays (1 to 17).
Volume configuration
A volume is a logical partition of a pool and is exposed as a block device for operating system
access. Each volume can also be perceived as a storage representation of a segment. Since the
StoreAll file system poses a limit of 8 TB per segment, the volume sizes are also ensured to be
within this supported limit.
Volume configurations are dependent on drive type. Table 17 (page 35) lists the volume
configuration for each drive type.
Table 17 Volume configurations based on supported drive sizes
4 TB3 TB2 TB900 GB450 GB
43211Volumes per pool
66655RAID level
~6TB or ~7TB~6TB or ~7TB~6TB or ~7TB
depending on the
~4.5TB
(4500500000000
bytes)
~2.2TB
(2250000000000
bytes)
Volume size
depending on the
number of drives
per pool
depending on the
number of drives
per pool
number of drives
per pool
(6001000000000
bytes
(6001000000000
bytes
(6001000000000
bytes
Or
OrOr
7001200000000
bytes)
7001200000000
bytes)
7001200000000
bytes)
Naming convention for pools and volumes
• Pool Naming: P<#>
◦ Example: P1,P2,P3,P4
• Volume Naming: LUN_C<controller slot #>_<Pool Name>_V<volume # within
the pool>
◦ Example: LUN_C1_P1_V1, LUN_C1_P2_V1
Command reference and examples
Listing disk drives
Syntax
hpsp_spt -ld [ all | <UUID of a drive> ]
hpsp_spt --listDrives [ all | <UUID of a drive> ]
Description
Lists information for all drives or an individual drive (if the UUID is specified).
If no argument is specified, all drives are listed.
Command reference and examples 35