HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 CLI Administrator's Manual

Moving, Removing, and Disconnecting Hosts..............................................................................75
Removing Host Paths...............................................................................................................76
Managing Host Autonomic Groups...........................................................................................77
Creating Host Sets.............................................................................................................77
Adding Hosts to Host Sets...................................................................................................77
Modifying Host Sets...........................................................................................................77
Removing Host Sets............................................................................................................77
Managing Host Personas.........................................................................................................78
The Host Explorer Software Agent.............................................................................................79
Hosts and Virtual Domains.......................................................................................................80
Creating a Domain-Specific Host.........................................................................................80
Modifying a Domain-Specific Host.......................................................................................80
Changing a Host Domain...................................................................................................80
Using Persistent Ports for Nondisruptive Online Software Upgrades...............................................81
7 Managing CPGs and Virtual Volumes.........................................................85
Overview..............................................................................................................................85
Common Provisioning Groups..................................................................................................85
Growth Increment Considerations for Common Provisioning Groups..........................................85
System Guidelines for Creating Common Provisioning Groups.................................................86
Common Provisioning Group CLI Commands.............................................................................86
Creating a Common Provisioning Group....................................................................................87
Modifying a Common Provisioning Group.................................................................................87
Setting Snapshot Space Usage Warnings.............................................................................87
Setting a Common Provisioning Group’s Autogrow Size..........................................................87
Consolidating Common Provisioning Group Space.................................................................88
Removing a Common Provisioning Group.............................................................................88
Virtual Volume Types...............................................................................................................88
Fully Provisioned Virtual Volumes..........................................................................................89
Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes........................................................................................89
Virtual Volume CLI Commands.................................................................................................89
Creating Virtual Volumes.........................................................................................................90
Creating Fully Provisioned Virtual Volumes.............................................................................90
Creating Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes...........................................................................90
Modifying Virtual Volumes.......................................................................................................91
Growing Virtual Volumes.........................................................................................................91
Converting Virtual Volumes Online............................................................................................91
Converting Fully Provisioned Virtual Volumes to Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes......................92
Converting Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes to Fully Provisioned Virtual Volumes......................92
Reducing Volume Size with HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software....................................................92
Manually Converting a Fully Provisioned Virtual Volume to a Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volume....92
Reducing Volume Size with HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software.....................................................93
Managing Virtual Volume Autonomic Groups.............................................................................93
Creating Virtual Volume Sets...............................................................................................94
Adding Virtual Volumes to Virtual Volume Sets.......................................................................94
Modifying Virtual Volume Sets.............................................................................................94
Removing Virtual Volume Sets..............................................................................................94
Freeing Virtual Volume Snapshot Space.....................................................................................95
Setting Expiration Times for Virtual Volumes...............................................................................95
Setting Retention Times for Virtual Volumes.................................................................................95
Removing Virtual Volumes........................................................................................................96
Validating and Repairing Virtual Volumes..................................................................................96
Exporting Virtual Volumes........................................................................................................97
Creating VLUN Templates...................................................................................................97
Creating a Host Sees or Host Set VLUN Template..............................................................97
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