Administrator Guide

Chapter 6: Provisioning Storage..................................................................................................33
Provisioning Overview......................................................................................................................................................33
Provisioning storage using EZ provisioning.................................................................................................................33
Changing the thin personality of a virtual volume.....................................................................................................33
Chapter 7: Volume expansion.......................................................................................................35
Overview............................................................................................................................................................................. 35
Additional documentation..........................................................................................................................................35
Volume expansion method.............................................................................................................................................. 35
List expansion-method attribute using CLI........................................................................................................... 35
List expansion-method attribute using Unisphere...............................................................................................36
Expand the virtual volume............................................................................................................................................... 37
Storage-volume expansion method.........................................................................................................................37
Limitations..................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Chapter 8: Data migration............................................................................................................41
About data migrations.......................................................................................................................................................41
One time migrations.....................................................................................................................................................41
Limitations......................................................................................................................................................................41
Batch migrations.......................................................................................................................................................... 41
General procedure to perform data migration......................................................................................................42
Migrating thin-capable storage......................................................................................................................................42
About rebuilds.................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Rebuilds for thin provisioned storage.....................................................................................................................46
Performance considerations..................................................................................................................................... 47
One-time data migrations................................................................................................................................................47
Starting a one-time device migration..................................................................................................................... 47
Monitoring a migration’s progress...........................................................................................................................48
Pausing/resuming a migration (optional).............................................................................................................. 49
Canceling a migration (optional)..............................................................................................................................49
Committing a completed migration.........................................................................................................................49
Cleaning a migration................................................................................................................................................... 50
Removing migration records.....................................................................................................................................50
Batch migrations............................................................................................................................................................... 50
Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................................................51
Creating a batch migration plan............................................................................................................................... 51
Checking a batch migration plan.............................................................................................................................. 51
Modifying a batch migration file.............................................................................................................................. 52
Starting a batch migration........................................................................................................................................ 52
Pausing/resuming a batch migration (optional).................................................................................................. 53
Canceling a batch migration (optional)..................................................................................................................53
Monitoring a batch migration’s progress...............................................................................................................53
Viewing a batch migration’s status......................................................................................................................... 54
Committing a batch migration..................................................................................................................................54
Cleaning a batch migration....................................................................................................................................... 55
Removing batch migration records.........................................................................................................................55
Chapter 9: Configure the WAN Network...................................................................................... 56
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