HP P9000 Provisioning for Mainframe Systems User Guide (AV400-96369, October 2011)

Continuous Access Synchronous Z........................................................................................51
Continuous Access Journal Z...............................................................................................51
Business Copy Z................................................................................................................51
Cache Partition CLPR setting................................................................................................52
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................52
Resource Partition...............................................................................................................52
Thin Provisioning Z workflow....................................................................................................52
Working with pools................................................................................................................53
About pools......................................................................................................................53
About pool-VOLs................................................................................................................53
Pool status.........................................................................................................................53
Creating a pool.................................................................................................................54
Working with THP V-VOLs........................................................................................................55
About THP V-VOLs.............................................................................................................55
Relationship between a pool and THP V-VOLs........................................................................55
Creating a THP V-VOL........................................................................................................55
Editing a THP V-VOL's SSID.................................................................................................57
Changing THP V-VOL settings..............................................................................................57
Removing the THP V-VOL to be registered..............................................................................58
Thresholds.............................................................................................................................58
About pool utilization thresholds..........................................................................................58
Pool subscription limit.........................................................................................................58
Changing pool thresholds...................................................................................................59
Changing the pool subscription limit.....................................................................................59
Working with SIMs.................................................................................................................60
About SIMs.......................................................................................................................60
SIM reference codes...........................................................................................................60
Automatic completion of a SIM............................................................................................61
Manually completing a SIM................................................................................................61
Managing pools and THP V-VOLs.............................................................................................62
Viewing pool information....................................................................................................62
Increasing pool capacity.....................................................................................................62
Changing a pool name......................................................................................................63
Recovering a blocked pool..................................................................................................63
Decrease pool capacity......................................................................................................64
About decreasing pool capacity......................................................................................64
Decreasing pool capacity...............................................................................................65
Stopping decreasing pool capacity.................................................................................65
Deleting a pool.................................................................................................................65
Increasing THP V-VOL capacity............................................................................................66
Changing the name of a THP V-VOL.....................................................................................66
About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL.................................................................................67
Releasing pages in a THP V-VOL.....................................................................................68
Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL..................................................................68
Deleting a THP V-VOL.........................................................................................................69
5 Troubleshooting........................................................................................70
Troubleshooting VLL................................................................................................................70
Troubleshooting Thin Provisioning Z...........................................................................................70
Troubleshooting provisioning while using RAID Manager.............................................................73
Errors when operating RAID Manager (Thin Provisioning Z, SSB1:0xb96b) ...............................74
6 Support and other resources......................................................................75
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................75
Subscription service............................................................................................................75
Documentation feedback....................................................................................................75
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