HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software User Guide Part number: TB581-96085 Fifth edition: November 2011
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Contents Preface ................................................................................................ 9 1 Overview of P9000 Command View AE Suite ..................................... 11 About P9000 Command View AE Suite ....................................................................................... Features ................................................................................................................................... System configuration .............................
3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment ...................................... 25 Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... Prerequisites for creating volumes ......................................................................................... Creating volumes ..........................
Reading the reports for THP pools that are displayed in the Mobility tab ............................. Optimizing data placement in a logical group ................................................................ Optimizing data placement in a THP pool ...................................................................... Setting the schedule for executing the monitoring and relocation of Smart Tiers pools ........... Data migration ...........................................................................
Confirming an alert ............................................................................................................ Searching resources .................................................................................................................. About searching storage resources ....................................................................................... Searching storage resources ................................................................................................
Setting automatic account locking ...................................................................................... Setting a warning banner message .................................................................................... Downloading components ...................................................................................................... About downloading components ........................................................................................
Tables 1 Tiered Storage Manager Values ................................................................................ 48 2 Volumes that cannot be used as migration sources (displayed as Migration Restrictions) ............................................................................................................ 50 3 Host information ..................................................................................................... 70 4 Logical group information ....................................
Preface This manual provides information for P9000 Command View AE Suite.
Preface
1 Overview of P9000 Command View AE Suite P9000 Command View AE Suite provides a high-level data virtualization and storage management tool. About P9000 Command View AE Suite P9000 Command View AE Suite is a group of storage management software products that allow you to manage storage resources in large-scale, complex SAN environments.
If you have a HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software license, you can perform: • Hierarchical management of storage resources (tier management) • Online data migration • Displaying information to optimize data placement and operation by using the Mobility tab System configuration The following graphic illustrates basic system configuration and components when using P9000 Command View AE Suite.
• Running tasks • Using the More Actions pull-down menu You can perform operations using multiple methods: • Selecting multiple lines by using the Ctrl or Shift key • Sorting • Filtering Operational flows At a high level this module provides diagrams of operations to set up P9000 Command View AE Suite. Process flow The following graphic illustrates the flow of system operations when using P9000 Command View AE Suite and HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software.
NOTE: To log in on a user account other than a built-in user account, set up user groups and roles in advance. User groups and roles can be set up only by users who have the User Management permission and the Admin role for All Resources. To log in to P9000 Command View AE Suite: 1.
About users and access control settings After users are registered, you can limit the scope of allowed operations for each user by configuring access control settings for users and other storage resources. To set access control you will need to create resource and user groups and then assign the resource groups and roles to the user groups.
Replicate critical data by allocating storage volumes based on logical groups. The following graphic illustrates the flow of allocating storage resources. About monitoring storage You can check the status of storage resources to detect problems and output reports to a CSV file containing search results or configuration and capacity information about hosts, logical groups, and other storage resources.
2 Registering managed targets This module describes how to register storage systems and hosts. Registering storage systems This module describes how to register storage systems. About registering a storage system Registering a storage system enables you to monitor and manage storage resources, such as volumes, parity groups, THP pools, and external storage connections. Information about a storage system can be changed after the storage system is registered.
3. Specify the appropriate information. 4. Click OK. 5. Check the Data Collection Tasks tab to verify that the task has completed successfully. 6. When the task completes, confirm that the storage system appears on the Storage Systems tab of Managed Resources. Or, you can confirm that the storage system name appears in the Storage Systems tree on the Resources tab.
To update information about hosts, such as the host name, WWN, refresh the hosts. If connected to P9000 Performance Advisor Software, users can also update performance information that is displayed in the Mobility tab. To automatically update the storage system information, specify proper settings in the server.properties file or dispatcher.properties file of the management server.
About registering a host You can register hosts to be managed by Device Manager so that the volumes of the storage system can be used in the host (application). You can consolidate paths between storages and hosts, or find out the usage status of storage resources from the hosts' point of view (such as outputting reports for charging each server that meets its actual capacity). The following hosts can be registered for P9000 Command View AE Suite: • Normal hosts (An open host that is not virtualized.
• A manually registered host. When the same hosts are detected by the same method, the WWN is registered to the host that was detected last. When a host is detected by Host Data Collector, WWN is registered to the host that was detected first. Prerequisites for registering a host You need to confirm connectivity and addressing information before registering a host. • Target host is connected to the network. • Target host IP address (IPv4).
Prerequisites for changing host information Before changing host information, note the following: • Target host IP address (IPv4). • If registering a virtual server, the IPv6 address also can be specified. • User name (who must have Administrator or superuser permissions) and password for logging on the host. Sudo users do not have to be root users.
• A LUN Manager, or LUN Management, must be installed on the target storage system. Scanning for new hosts Before you perform this task, review the “Prerequisites for scanning for hosts” on page 22. To scan for new hosts: 1. On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources. 2. On the Hosts tab, select the More Actions pull-down menu and select Host Scan. 3. Specify the appropriate information and run the host scan.
• WWNs • Volume capacity allocated to the host • Times and dates for the most recent updates Acquiring the most recent host information Refresh registered hosts to update the information that is displayed in the Hosts list. You must have Modify permission or higher to perform this task. To update host information: 1. On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources. 2. On the Hosts tab, select the host, or hosts, you want to refresh. 3. Click Refresh Hosts and then click OK. 4.
3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment This module describes setting up and operating a Storage Area Network (SAN). Creating and deleting volumes This module describes how to create volumes. About creating volumes You create volumes to then allocate them to a host. You create volumes by using the available space in a THP pool or parity group. You can then access the volumes when you are ready to allocate them to a host.
3. Click Show Plan to review the plan and specify additional information, as appropriate: • Verify the information that is displayed. NOTE: The LDEV IDs for the volumes you are creating appear in the Plan Detail. 4. 5. • Enter a name in Task Name. • Specify when the task should execute. Click Submit. When the task completes, verify that the volumes appear in the Open-Unallocated volume list on the Resources tab.
Creating a LUSE volume Information needed before creating a LUSE volume: • The name of the target host • The target volumes Tasks to complete before creating a LUSE volume: • Creating volumes to be added To create a LUSE volume: 1. From the Resources tab, select Hosts. 2. Expand the tree and select the target host. 3. From the list of volumes, select the basic volume, and then click the Create LUSE Volume button. 4. Click the Add Volumes button. 5.
About virtualizing volumes Virtualizing volumes is the process of mapping volumes in a source storage system to a target storage system. The volumes in the source storage system (registered and referred to as external volumes) can then be managed in the same way as the volumes in the target storage system (registered and referred to as internal volumes).
3. Click Show Plan to review the plan and specify additional information, as appropriate: 4. • Verify the information that is displayed. • Enter a name in Task Name. • Specify when the task should run. Click Submit. The plan is registered as a task. 5. When the task completes, check the Storage Systems list to confirm that the external volumes are mapped to the target storage system. Virtualizing storage capacity This module describes how to virtualize storage capacity.
pool includes zero pages, usability worsens because the system tries to use more capacity than is actually needed. In such cases, you can reclaim zero pages in THP volumes. In addition to reclaiming zero pages periodically, you can reclaim zero pages when performing a backup or restoring data from tape storage.
To verify THP pool operation conditions: 1. On the Resources tab, select THP Pools under the target storage system. A list of THP pools, (THP pool volumes and THP volumes), and associated information appears. A pools summary provides summary information such as the number of pools, virtual volume capacity, usage, and total and used capacity. 2. Select a THP pool to display more detailed information about that pool.
3. In the THP Pool Vols tab, select THP pool volumes, and then click Shrink Pool. 4. Review the plan and specify additional information, as appropriate: 5. • Verify the information that is displayed. • Enter a name in Task Name. • Specify when to execute the task. Click Submit. The plan is registered as a task. 6. On the Tasks & Alerts tab, confirm that the task completed. 7. In the Storage Systems tree, return to the target storage system, click Pools, and confirm that the information is updated.
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart Tiers Software pools You can start or stop monitoring of Smart Tiers Software pools manually. A Tiered Storage Manager license is required to perform the operation from the Mobility tab. After confirming that the Smart Tiers Software pools setting for Tier Management is set to Manual, you can start or stop monitoring of Smart Tiers Software pools. To manually start or stop the monitoring of Smart Tiers Software pools: 1.
A Tiered Storage Manager license is required to perform the operation from the Mobility tab. To edit a tiering policy: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. From the tree view in the Resources tab, select Storage Systems. Expand the tree and select the target Smart Tiers Software pool. If you chose Smart Tiers Software pool, select one or more THP volumes from the THP Vol tab and then click the Edit Tiering Policy button. Select the hardware tier for the tiering policy, and then execute the task.
volumes and clusters. Operations then performed on the logical group will be effective over all the member clusters • Allocating volumes by searching: In contrast to the prior use case you can search for volumes meeting certain conditions (host, volume, performance levels, etc.) before allocating them to hosts The presence of, and order in which, a field may appear in the Allocating Volumes dialog box is highly dependent on your host configuration and your use case.
Before you allocate volumes to a host, register hosts and storage systems. Information that needs to be confirmed beforehand: • The name of the target storage system • Target volumes • The name of the target host To allocate volumes to a host: 1. From the Resources menu, select Storage Systems. 2. Expand the tree and select the desired target storage system volumes. 3. Click Allocate Volumes, In the dialog box, select the host name. Specify the following items as required: 4.
Allocating volumes to a searched resource (Keyword Search) You can efficiently search for a target resource such as a storage system, host, or volume, and then allocate volumes in an environment in which many resources are managed. By using Keyword Search, you can text search the names of storage systems, hosts, volumes, parity groups, THP pools, and logical groups.
4. In the dialog box, specify the host name. You can also specify the following items as required: • Path Options specifies a LUN path when considering the path redundancy or specifying the port to be used. • Host Groups and LUN Settings specifies the host group name, host mode, LUN, and other items when there are operational rules for the system or application. You can also specify the host group name, host mode, LUN, and other items if there are operational rules for the system or application. 5.
To edit resource paths: 1. On the Resources tab, expand the tree to display a list of volumes. 2. Select the volume for which you want to edit the paths. 3. Click Edit LUN Paths and the Edit LUN Paths dialog box opens. 4. Add or delete the host ports and/or storage ports. 5. Change any other required settings. 6. Click Show Plan to review the plan and specify additional information, as appropriate: 7. • Verify the information that is displayed. • Enter a name in Task Name.
2. Expand the tree and select the target OS. 3. From the list of hosts, select one or more hosts from which you want to unallocate all volumes, and then click the Unallocate Volumes button.If you want to unallocate specific volumes, click the link of the host name to select the target volumes, and then click the Unallocate Volumes button. 4. If the displayed volumes are correct, unallocate the volumes with the appropriate options. 5. In the task list, confirm that the task has completed.
To access other pair management functionality, you must register a Replication Manager license and log in to P9000 Command View AE Suite with Replication Manager permissions. Adding command devices To add a command device: 1. From the Actions menu, select Manager Replication to start the Replication Manager. 2. From the Explorer menu select Resources and then Storage Systems. 3. Expand the tree and select the desired storage system. 4.
7. Follow the steps in the Pair Configuration wizard to define copy pairs. For details about how to specify copy-pair conditions and how to use the Pair Configuration wizard, see the Replication Manager online help. 8. From the Explorer menu, select Tasks, and then select Tasks again to confirm that the task was properly executed. 9. Confirm the copy-pair definitions by viewing the Copy pair configuration view in Replication Manager.
Data mobility An administrator can obtain information required to see the operating status of storage resources and optimize data placement. About data mobility The Mobility tab provides information required to see the operating status of storage resources and optimize data placement. To efficiently use a storage resource, use the Mobility tab to optimize the data arrangement. In the Mobility tab, information used to determine whether the data arrangement is appropriate is collectively displayed.
• Response time of the volume • Busy rate for parity groups From the Mobility tab, the following operations can be performed to optimize data placement: • • • • • Configuration and editing of an Smart Tiers Software tiering policy Migration of volumes Manually starting or stopping the monitoring and relocation of Smart Tiers Software pools Expanding, shrinking, or changing of the settings for THP pools Expanding THP volumes and reclaiming zero pages By creating tiers of volumes or THP pools based on use o
• Top 10: Pools with the Highest Subscription Checks for THP pools with a high reservation rate to determine THP pools that need pool expansion or data migration. • Top 10: Tiers with the Highest Performance Utilization Checks for hardware tier configurations with high ratio of actual I/O operations to the calculated maximum number of I/O operations. Used to determine Smart Tiers Software pools that include hardware tier configurations with saturated performance.
Optimizing data placement in a THP pool Data placement can be optimized in a THP pool. Follow this procedure to optimize your data placement: 1. From the tree view of the Mobility tab, select THP Pools. 2. Expand the THP Pools tree to check for THP pools whose usage rate, reservation rate, or performance usage rate is high. 3. If a THP pool does not meet the expectations for capacity or performance, click the link of the logical group name in the ranking. 4. Check the usage status of the THP pools.
The source volume can be selected by host or by logical group. The source volume also can be selected from some of the volumes allocated to a host some of the volumes in a logical group, some of the volumes in a tier. Migration source volumes can also be selected from volume search results. Only volumes that can be migrated will be migrated. Migration targets are selected from tiers, THP pools, or resource search results.
• Data migration tasks take a long time from start of execution to completion. This might affect the performance of access from hosts to target volumes. To avoid executing such tasks while the access frequency is high, check the time required to complete the tasks and set a task execution schedule before registering the tasks.
1. 2. If the micro version of XP24000/XP20000 is 60-03-20-00/00-xx or later and if both the migration source and the migration target volumes are THP volumes, the emulation type can be between OPEN-V and OPEN-0V. If a volume whose emulation type is OPEN-V is a normal volume, and if the size of a migration target volume is larger than a migration-source volume, a volume that has the same size of the migration-source volume is re-created. The remaining capacity can be reused.
Restrictions The following volumes cannot be migrated: • Cross-system copy-pair volumes. • Volumes configured for XRC. Note that a volume in a suspended status can be a source volume, but not a target volume. • Volumes configured for concurrent copying. • The migration source volume is configured as a Continuous Access Synchronous pair or Hitachi TrueCopy for Mainframe pair, and the migration target is an external storage system.
Non-migratable source volumes XP Snapshot Status The volume is one of the following: • The volume is the P-VOL of a Snapshot pair, its status is PAIR, and the number of generations is 64 • The volume is the P-VOL of a Snapshot pair and its status is not PAIR • The volume is the V-VOL of a Snapshot pair • The volume is the POOL of a Snapshot pair XP Thin Provisioning [Pool Volume] The volume is a THP pool volume XP Thin Provisioning [Unassigned The volume is a THP volume and is not associated with a pool Ext
Migrating data for volume performance To migrate data based on the results of monitoring volume performance: 1. In the Resources or Mobility tab, select a migration source host or logical group. From a list of hosts or logical groups, you may also select migration source volumes. If migrating data from a mainframe volume, expand the Tiers tree on the Resources tab or the Mobility tab, and then select the corresponding tie. 2. Click the Migrate Data button. 3.
4. 5. Specify the migration target, THP pool, or tier and then click the Next button. When the parity group selection rule is set, a candidate volume that is appropriate as a migration target will be selected depending on the application that is being used or the usage rate of the parity group. Specifically: • Balance Capacity: System attempts to select a migration target candidate so that the remaining capacity of the targeted parity group is equalized with other parity groups.
Setting up and operating a SAN environment
Migrating data from an SMI-S Enabled storage system to another storage system Tasks that must be completed beforehand: • The Device Manager CLI is set up. • The Tiered Storage Manager CLI is set up (if necessary). • The port of the SMI-S Enabled storage system is connected to the External port of the storage system via Fibre Channel. • The volumes of the SMI-S Enabled storage system are assigned to the External port (performed by the management tool of the SMI-S Enabled storage system).
6. 7. Migrate data in the external volumes (migration source) to an internal volume of the migration target storage system (data migration). Use the GUI to migrate data, or execute the following commands (Tiered Storage Manager CLI): • CreateStorageTier command • CreateMigrationGroup command • CreateMigrationPlan command • CreateMigrationTask command • Execute Task command Unmap the external volumes (migration source) from the migration target storage system.
To view the status of a task: 1. On the Tasks & Alerts tab, click All Tasks. 2. Check the status of a task on the Tasks tab or the History tab and view the task status in the Status column. 3. To display task details and a task summary, click the task name link to open the Task Details dialog box. Rescheduling tasks waiting to be executed You may reschedule tasks waiting to be executed. To reschedule a task waiting to be executed: 1. On the Tasks & Alerts tab, select All Tasks. 2.
Canceling scheduled tasks You can cancel scheduled tasks that have not yet started. NOTE: You can only cancel tasks that are in Waiting status. NOTE: You can view the status of a task while it is running or scheduled to run. To cancel a scheduled task: 1. On the Tasks & Alerts tab, select All Tasks and select a task from the task list. 2. Click Cancel Tasks. 3. Upon cancellation of a task the status of the task appears as Canceled.
4 Grouping resources This module describes how to group logical groups and storage tiers (resources). Managing logical groups This module describes how to manage logical groups. About logical groups A logical group is a group of hosts and volumes. A storage administrator creates logical groups and assigns hosts and volumes to each logical group. Logical groups allow you to: • Create summary reports that indicate the current resource use in a storage environment by organization.
Creating logical groups Before creating logical groups, review the rules for creating logical groups in “Prerequisites for creating a logical group” on page 59. To create logical groups: 1. On the Resources tab, select Logical Groups. 2. Click Create Logical Group. 3. Create a folder for each new logical group: 1. Click Create Logical Group. 2. Enter the appropriate information. 3. Click OK. 4. Repeat for each new folder required. 4. To create a hierarchy of logical groups, repeat step 3. 5.
2. Expand the tree and select the target logical group. 3. Select a host or volume. 4. Click on the operation to perfom (Allocate Volumes, Unallocate Volume, or Edit Label). 5. In the task list, confirm that the task is completed. Managing storage tiers This module describes how to manage tiers. About tier-based storage management In a tier-based storage management system, storage system resources are grouped and managed in tiers.
• license is enabled. In addition, determine the requirements for the volumes and ports to be used according to the environment and operational policies, including: • The target host name • The number and size of volumes required • The storage systems to use Allocating volumes from a tier You must allocate volumes to a host so the host system can recognize them. Before you allocate volumes from a tier, review the requirements in “Prerequisites for allocating volumes from a tier” on page 61.
5. Confirm that the tier has expanded. Labeling volumes This module describes how to use volume labels. About volume labels Volume labels allow you to more easily differentiate individual volumes in a storage system by labeling them with meaningful names. Volume labels can be up to 64 characters and can include any of the following characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9 ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + - = { } [ ] | : ; ' < > , . ? / You can use spaces, but the label cannot contain only spaces.
Grouping resources
5 Monitoring operations in a SAN environment This module describes how to monitor operations in a Storage Area Network (SAN). Viewing information summaries This module describes how to view summary information for registered storage systems and hosts. About the dashboard The P9000 Command View AE Suite dashboard shows a summary of tasks, alerts, and activities of registered storage systems. • Storage System Alerts A list of links for each registered storage system and the associated alerts.
Customizing the dashboard You can customize the dashboard to show only the reports you want. P9000 Command View AE Suite retains the customizations you make so that the dashboard displays your customized settings the next time you log in. All users can perform these tasks. You can customize the dashboard by using the report title bar to: • Drag a report to another location to rearrange the dashboard. • Double-click the title bar to minimize a report or to restore a minimized report.
About the hosts tree P9000 Command View AE Suite lists registered hosts by operating system in the hosts tree on the Resources tab. You can register both physical hosts and virtualization servers. You can also group the WWNs used by specific storage systems and set up that group as a host. You select a host from the Hosts tree to allocate or unallocate volumes. Viewing current host information Any user can view information about a host. To view current host information: 1.
About alerts This section describes alert management in P9000 Command View AE Suite. The status of managed storage systems is usually regularly monitored and whenever a problem occurs in a storage system managed by P9000 Command View AE Suite, an alert is shown in the Storage System Alerts report on the Dashboard. Alert details can be confirmed on the Tasks & Alerts tab. Resolved alerts can be deleted manually from the list.
• From the search results, you can select resources for which to perform operations. • Exporting the search results to a CSV file. • When the Tiered Storage Manager license is registered, the search conditions can be saved by assigning them appropriate names. The saved search can be reused by the user who created the search, or can be shared among different users. Searching storage resources You can search P9000 Command View AE Suite to locate storage resources that meet criteria you specify.
About generating reports Information about registered storage systems and hosts can be output to a CSV file which can then be used to generate reports.
Item Earlier than version 7.0 Current version • Volume • Label • Storage system • Serial No.
Item Earlier than version 7.0 Current version • Guest OS Version The Virtualization Server must be registered as a host in the Device Manager to output any of the following: • Number of LUNs • Virtualization Server • Subsystem • WWN • VM Information for a virtual machine created on the virtualization server • Capacity • Type Table 4 Logical group information Item Earlier than version 7.0 Current version • Storage System • Model • Serial No.
Item Earlier than version 7.0 Current version Group of Volumes: • Volume • Label • Storage System • Serial No. • Model • Vendor • Host • WWN • Port • Port Type • Host Group • LUN • No. of Paths • Capacity • Parity Group • Pool • Pool Name • Used Capacity • RAID Level • Volume Attribute • Drive Type • Drive Speed (RPM) • Drive Capacity • Stripe Size • Ext.
Item Earlier than version 7.0 Current version • Volume • Label • Storage System • Serial No. • Model • Vendor • Host • WWN • Port • Port Type Information for volumes assigned to each logical group • LDEV • Host Group • Label • LUN • Type • No.
Item Earlier than version 7.
Note that in the following table, in versions later or equal to 7.0, the resource search results are exported to a CSV file. Table 5 Volume information from search results Earlier than version 7.
Earlier than version 7.0 Version 7.0 and later Volume search: • Volume • Label • Storage System • Model • Vendor • Host • WWN • No. of Paths • Port • Host Group • LUN • Port Type • Capacity • Parity Group • Pool • Pool Name • RAID Level • Volume Attribute • Drive Type • Drive Speed (RPM) • Drive Capacity • Stripe Size • Filesystem • Filesystem Used % • Target ID • Ext. Storage System • Ext. Storage Model • Ext. Storage Vendor • Ext.
Earlier than version 7.0 Version 7.0 and later • Resource Group Parity group search: • Parity Group • Storage System • Total Capacity • Open Capacity • Mainframe Capacity • Free Capacity • RAID Level • Drive Type • Drive Speed (RPM) • Drive Capacity • SLPR • CLPR • Emulation Type • Ext. Storage System • Ext. Storage Vendor • Ext.
Earlier than version 7.0 Version 7.0 and later Pool search: • Pool • Name • Storage System • No. of THP Pool Vols • Capacity • Used Capacity • Used % • No.
Earlier than version 7.0 Version 7.0 and later Free space search: • Parity Group/Free Space Number • Capacity • Storage System • Vendor • Total Free Capacity • Emulation Type • RAID Level • Drive Type • Drive Capacity • Drive Speed (RPM) • Related Task • Resource Group Table 6 Access control information Item Earlier than version 7.1 Curent version Information for user groups: ------------------------• User Group • Description • No.
5. Confirm that the CSV file is saved in the specified location. Exporting logical group information to a CSV file You can save information about your logical groups to a CSV file. This allows you to see the volume capacity allocated to a logical group and the hosts or volumes that are assigned. To export logical group information to a CSV file: 1. On the Resources tab, select Logical Groups. 2.
low-performance volume, and then assign the now-available high-performance volume to an appropriate host. If the used capacity of a THP pool has reached a threshold value and volume that satisfies the capacity requirement cannot be created or assigned because the unused capacity is insufficient, add THP pool volumes to increase the capacity of the THP pool. If the performance of a THP pool has decreased and data I/O is slow, add more THP pool volumes to distribute loads within the THP pool.
6 Setting up P9000 Command View AE Suite This module describes how to configure basic P9000 Command View AE Suite settings. Configuring your browser to access This module describes how to configure browser settings for use with P9000 Command View AE Suite.
4. In the Trusted Sites dialog box, enter the URL for P9000 Command View AE Suite.
5. In the Security Settings dialog box, verify that the items in the dialog box are configured as follows: • • • • • • • • 6. Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins is set to Enable. Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting is set to Enable. Launching programs and files in an IFRAME is set to Prompt or Enable. Submit nonencrypted form data is set to Prompt or Enable. Active scripting is set to Enable. File download is set to Enable.
Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 5.0 and 6.0 to link with other products For Java Web Start Version 5.0 and 6.0: 1. Start the Java Control Panel. The Network Settings window appears. 2. On the General tab, click Network Settings. 3. In the Network Settings window, select the method to be used to set up the proxy. • If the proxy setting is enabled in the Web browser, select Use browser settings, and then proceed to step 7.
Clearing the cache when upgrading P9000 Command View AE Suite Before upgrading P9000 Command View AE Suite, you must clear the cache for Java™ Web Start and for your browser: To clear these caches: 1. Clear the cache for Java Web Start version 1.4.2 by clearing the application folder of the Java Web Start Application Manager. For Java Web Start version 5.0 or 6.0, delete the Temporary Internet Files by using the Java Control Panel. 2.
User Management permissions make it possible to log in to all P9000 Command View Software products, and allow for usage of the user management function and security management function for all P9000 Command View Software products. The User Management permissions also allow users to create user groups for Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager, and output user groups and user information in CSV format.
Function Resource Group Necessary Roles All Resources View details of datacollection tasks (edit storage systems) • Note that users can perform this operation on tasks that they have created even if All Resources is not allocated. Admin or Modify All Resources or resource group to which an updated storage system belongs View details of datacollection tasks (update storage systems) • To delete data collection tasks (update storage systems), All Resources must be assigned.
Function Resource Group Necessary Roles Edit tiering policy Resource group to which the target LDEV ID of a THP volume that composes a THP pool belongs.
Function Resource Group Necessary Roles Assign resources and roles to user groups All Resources Note that the user must have User Management Permission. Download related programs Any Admin or Modify Admin Creating a user account User accounts are required for accessing P9000 Command View AE Suite. Access to P9000 Command View AE Suite requires a user account.
To change the password for a user account: 1. On the Administration tab, click Users and Permissions and then click Users. 2. Select the target user. 3. Click Change Password. 4. Enter the new password and verify it. 5. Click OK. 6. Confirm that the user account can log in with the new password. Changing your password As your password expires or is compromised, it will need to be changed. To change your password: 1. On the Administration tab, click User Profile. 2. Click Change Password. 3.
Before you can change the user authentication method for a user, verify that: • A connection to an external authentication server is configured (on the management server) • The user ID and password pair is registered both in P9000 Command View AE Suite and on the external authentication server. Changing the user authentication method Different user authentication systems may be used with P9000 Command View AE Suite. To specify the user authentication method: 1.
About controlling access When a SAN environment is managed by storage administrators, resources are managed by resource and user groups by the Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager (GUI). This allows secure data handling in multi-tenant environments and more efficient operations. Access control can be used for data center hosting services and managing departments in a company. A resource group is a group of similar storage system resources (storage systems, storage ports, LDEV IDs, parity groups, etc.).
It is also possible to share physical resources (such as parity groups or storage ports) among departments, and divide only logical resources (such as LDEV IDs or host group numbers) by department. For example, you can assign resource groups that contain shared physical resources to all departments and then assign individual resource groups that contain specific logical resources to the appropriate departments.
• All Resources is a resource group that includes all resources managed by . This group is automatically created during installation. • Default resource groups are resource groups created for each storage system and include all resources in that storage system. This group is automatically created when a storage system is registered. • User-defined resource groups are resource groups that the user can define under the HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array and depend on the operating environment.
If volume replication is performed by using Replication Manager with only a Device Manager license, the Replication Manager information must be updated after the resource group is created. Editing a resource group Resource groups may need to be added or modified as new resources are required. To modify information about a resource group: 1. On the Administration tab, select Resource Groups. 2. Select the target resource group and click Edit Resource Group. 3.
For a HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array storage system, if different roles are set as follows, the highest-level role among those is applied to all of the resource groups in that storage system: • When different roles are assigned to multiple resource groups assigned to one user group in the same storage system. • When one user belongs to multiple user groups to which different roles are assigned to multiple resource groups in the same storage system.
3. Specify the users that can be managed by the group. The created user group now appears. Editing a user group As user information and membership in user groups change, you can edit this information. To modify information about a user group: 1. On the Administration tab, select User Groups. 2. Select the target user group and click Edit User Group. 3. Change the name of the user group, or the user who manages the user group. Editing changes appear in the list in the User Groups tab.
Setting a password policy To set password policy: 1. On the Administration tab, select Security. 2. Select Password in the tree. 3. Click Edit Settings and enter the conditions for the new password policy. 4. Confirm the changes by selecting Password in the tree to view the updated password policy. Setting automatic account locking A user account can be automatically locked after a specified number of failed login attempts.
Downloading agents, CLI, and Host Data Collector files To download agents, the CLI application, or Host Data Collector files: 1. From the Tools menu, select Download. The download dialog box opens. 2. Choose from the links in the dialog box to download the desired installation files. 3. Click the ReadMe links for installation instructions. Managing licenses This module describes how to manage licenses.
Checking licenses All users can perform this task. To check license information and expiration date: 1. On the login window click License. If you are already logged in, from the Help menu, select About. 2. Check the license status displayed in License Messages. If you have a permanent license or subscription license, you can check detailed information by clicking the link for each product.
Output Item Description S/N=serial-number Serial number One of the following values: • P: Permanent license Key-type • T: Temporary license • E: Emergency license • M: Meter-based term license One of the following values: capacityTB • If this operation is used, then the used storage system capacity is returned. If this value exceeds the capacity for the permanent license, the capacity for the meter-based term license will be used.
Setting up P9000 Command View AE Suite
7 Linking related products This module describes the link and launch feature that is used to access other related P9000 Command View AE Suite products. Launching other P9000 Command View AE Suite products Other integrated P9000 Command View AE Suite products for which you have a license installed and registered may be used via the link-and-launch feature.
Starting Element Manager All users can perform this task. To start Element Manager: 1. On the Resources tab, select Storage Systems. 2. Select a storage system and select Element Manager from the Actions menu. Note that the management tool sometimes cannot start with an SMI-S Enabled storage system because the URL of management tool is incorrect.
8 Troubleshooting This module describes how to troubleshoot P9000 Command View AE Suite. About troubleshooting If you are having trouble with the management client, first make sure the problem is not with the management server. For troubleshooting problems related to Device Manager servers, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software Administrator Guide. Troubleshooting examples The following table lists errors and solutions.
Troubleshooting
9 Support and other resources Numerous support options are available. Contacting HP HP technical support For worldwide technical support information, see the HP support website: http://www.hp.
Conventions This guide follows the conventions shown in Table 8 to refer to HP StorageWorks P9000 products.
Product reference Full name or meaning This abbreviation is used when it is not necessary to distinguish the following products: Data Retention Utility • Data Retention Utility • XP Data Retention Utility • LUN Security XP Extension This abbreviation is used when it is not necessary to distinguish the following products: External Storage • XP External Storage Software • External Storage XP • External Storage This abbreviation is used when it is not necessary to distinguish the following products: Flex
Product reference Full name or meaning This abbreviation is used when it is not necessary to distinguish the following products: Volume Shredder • Volume Shredder • XP Volume Shredder • P9000 Volume Shredder 112 Support and other resources
A Operations in Legacy mode This appendix describes data migration using migration groups that were supported in prior P9000 Command View AE Suite versions. About Legacy mode Legacy mode is an option for performing data migration by using migration groups that were supported in versions earlier than 7.1.1. To use legacy mode, set the client.migration.use.legacymode property value in the client.properties file of Device Manager. For details about the client.migration.use.
• Execute: A user with Execute permission can view Tiered Storage Manager resources and execute Tiered Storage Manager tasks. • View: A user with View permission can view Tiered Storage Manager resources and tasks. Users registered in an external authentication group have the permissions of the user group to which users are assigned. By specifying roles, resources that belong to a resource group for which a user has permission to reference or perform operations on are displayed.
Item Value for which performance is ensured Recommended value Number of incomplete TSMgr CLI/Legacy TSMgr Tasks 100 - Table 10 Tiered Storage Manager Maximum Legacy Values Item Maximum value Recommended value Number of users that access the Tiered Storage Manager server at the same time 5 1 or 2 Conditions to migrate volumes in Legacy mode Before migrating data, perform or confirm the following: • • • • An HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software license is registered.
• For the Tiered Storage Manager to automatically determine migration target volumes, external migration target volumes require that all of the volumes must be in the same external storage system and the RAID level and SLPR (storage management logical partition) of all migration target volumes be the same. If the micro version of XP24000/XP20000 is 60-05-12-00/00 or earlier, you must not perform I/O operations on the volumes while migration is being executed.
Non-migratable sources/targets XP Thin Provisioning [Unassigned] The volume is a THP volume and is not associated with a THP pool Externally Locked The volume is locked by Data Retention Utility (not Read/Write) Migration Reserved The volume has already been reserved as a migration target Not Acquired Volume Information Information for the volume cannot be acquired Business Copy Configuration [Leaf], Business Copy XP Configuration [Leaf] The volume is part of a Business Copy or Hitachi ShadowImage for Mainf
Migratable sources not usable as targets Business Copy (target), Business Copy XP (target) The volume is part of a Business Copy or Hitachi ShadowImage for Mainframe pair.
7. Select a tier and click Check Compatibility. A migration pair is created for each migration source volume and its target volume or THP pool. 8. Confirm that the pairs are properly created. To edit pairs, click Edit Pairs. 9. Specify the appropriate options and create the task. 10. If you did not select Execute immediately after confirmation in the previous step, click the link in the TSMgr CLI/Legacy TSMgr Tasks on the Task & Alerts tab to search for and execute the registered task. 11.
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Glossary This glossary defines the special terms used in this document. Click the desired letter at the bottom of every glossary page to display the glossary entries that start with that letter. allocated volume An LDEV for which one or more host paths are defined. cache A set of RAM (Random Access Memory) modules used to store data temporarily. capacity The amount of data storage space available on a disk drive or storage system.
FC Fibre Channel GUI Graphical user interface HBA Host bus adapter host group A means of segregating hosts by operating system. HSD Host storage domain. A group used to strengthen the security of volumes in storage systems. By associating and grouping hosts and volumes by storage system port, host storage domains can be used to restrict access from hosts to volumes. Device Manager defines the host groups set up with the storage system LUN security function as host storage domains.
management client A computer used to operate P9000 Command View AE Suite. web client or CLI client can be used. NAS Network attached storage NIC Network interface card OS Operating system pair status Copy pair status. pool A set of volumes that are reserved for storing snapshot data or Dynamic or Thin Provisioning write data. pool-VOL A logical volume that is reserved for storing snapshot data for snapshot operations or write data for Dynamic or Thin Provisioning.
SSD Solid-state drive SSL Secure Sockets Layer S-VOL (secondary volume) The copy destination volume of two volumes that are associated in a copy pair by a storage system volume replication functionality. THP Thin provisioning. An approach to managing storage. Instead of reserving storage, it removes capacity from the available pool only when data is actually written to the drive. THP-VOL Thin Provisioning virtual volume. A virtual volume with no memory space used by Thin Provisioning.
Index A D access control, 14, 15 accounts authentication method, 92, 93 creating, 91, 96 editing, 91 lock status, 92 locking (automatic), 100 managing (overview), 87, 94 password conditions, 100 agents downloading, 101 alerts confirming, 68 deleting, 68 description, 24, 68, 113 authorization server external, setup, 93 dashboard accessing, 65 customizing, 66 description, 65 Data Collector downloading, 101 data mobility, 43 data optimization logical group, 45 pools, 46 download software, 101 B G browser
I P Internet Explorer security, 84 P9000 Command View AE Software components, 11 configuration (overview), 12, 14 features, 11 launching other software, 105 main window, 12 P9000 Command View AE Suite process flow, 13 pair management, 40 password changing, 91, 92 path management, 38 paths editing from storage systems, 38 permissions changing, 92 user, 113 pools conditions for migration, 49, 116 creating, 30, 31, 33 creating, prerequisites, 30 expanding, 31 expanding volumes, 32 expanding, prerequisites,
server URL, 13 SMI-S, 19, 53, 55 software downloading, 100 storage allocation (overview), 15 monitoring (overview), 16 optimization, about, 81 refreshing status, 18 registering (overview), 17 searching (overview), 68 tier-based management, 61 virtualization with pools, 29 virtualized, 15 storage resources searching, 69 storage systems editing, 18, 97, 99 logical groups, 60 paths, editing, 38 refreshing, 19 registering, 17 registering, prerequisites, 17 viewing, 66 Storage view about, 66 system configuration
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