HP P9000 Snapshot User Guide (AV400-96394, October 2011)

6 Monitoring and maintenance.....................................................................32
Monitoring the system.............................................................................................................32
Monitoring pair status........................................................................................................32
Pair status definitions.....................................................................................................32
Statuses required for pair operations................................................................................33
Monitoring pair, volume details...........................................................................................33
Monitoring S-VOL path information......................................................................................35
Monitoring number of pairs, license information.....................................................................36
Monitoring a pair’s operation history...................................................................................37
Monitoring pool information................................................................................................38
Maintaining the system............................................................................................................39
Heavy-workload option.......................................................................................................39
Managing pools................................................................................................................39
Increasing pool capacity................................................................................................39
Recovering pools...........................................................................................................40
Changing pool threshold................................................................................................40
Changing pool name....................................................................................................40
Deleting pools..............................................................................................................41
Managing V-VOLs..............................................................................................................41
Changing a V-VOL name...............................................................................................41
Deleting V-VOLs............................................................................................................42
Powering-off to change the microcode...................................................................................42
Powering-off.................................................................................................................42
Replacing the microcode offline......................................................................................42
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................43
General troubleshooting..........................................................................................................43
Recovering from failure during pairresync -restore...................................................................45
Recovering a terminated HP-UX host server............................................................................45
Recovering a blocked pool..................................................................................................46
Processing pool-related SIMs...............................................................................................46
Troubleshooting with RAID Manager.........................................................................................46
8 Support and other resources......................................................................53
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................53
Subscription service............................................................................................................53
Documentation feedback....................................................................................................53
Related information.................................................................................................................53
HP websites......................................................................................................................53
Conventions for storage capacity values....................................................................................54
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................54
A RAID Manager command reference............................................................56
Action names and RAID Manager commands list........................................................................56
B Snapshot GUI reference.............................................................................57
Pair Operation window...........................................................................................................57
Volume list........................................................................................................................58
Preview List.......................................................................................................................59
Command menu................................................................................................................60
Display filter dialog box..........................................................................................................60
Detail dialog box...................................................................................................................61
Pairsplit-S dialog box..............................................................................................................62
History window .....................................................................................................................64
Reference codes................................................................................................................65
Snapshot window...................................................................................................................65
Top window when selecting pool..............................................................................................68
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