HP XP24000/XP20000 Snapshot User Guide (T5213-96033, November 2011)

Starting XP Snapshot...............................................................................................................41
4 Using the XP Snapshot GUI........................................................................43
Pair Operation Window..........................................................................................................43
Volume List........................................................................................................................45
Preview List.......................................................................................................................48
History Window.....................................................................................................................49
XP Snapshot Window.............................................................................................................51
Pool Window.........................................................................................................................54
V-VOL Window......................................................................................................................59
5 Performing XP Snapshot Operations............................................................62
XP Snapshot Processes............................................................................................................62
Configuring the Volume List......................................................................................................63
Deleting the Settings in Preview List...........................................................................................65
Creating or Deleting Pools.......................................................................................................65
Creating New Pools...........................................................................................................65
Changing the Information for the Pools.................................................................................67
Deleting Pools...................................................................................................................68
Deleting a Pool.............................................................................................................68
Deleting Multiple Pools..................................................................................................69
Optimizing the V-VOL Management Area or Pool Management Block.......................................69
Optimizing the V-VOL Management Area.........................................................................69
Optimizing the Pool Management Block...........................................................................70
Creating or Deleting Virtual Volumes.........................................................................................70
Creating New Virtual Volumes.............................................................................................70
Deleting Virtual Volumes and a Virtual Volume Group.............................................................79
Deleting Multiple Virtual Volume Groups ..............................................................................79
Creating XP Snapshot Pairs......................................................................................................81
Storing XP Snapshot Data........................................................................................................82
Storing XP Snapshot Data by Consistency Group with At-Time Snapshot Function............................82
Restoring XP Snapshot Pairs.....................................................................................................84
Deleting XP Snapshot Data......................................................................................................85
Deleting XP Snapshot Pairs......................................................................................................85
Deleting XP Snapshot Pairs by Selecting the Pairs per Port.......................................................85
Deleting XP Snapshot Pairs by Selecting the Pairs per Pool.......................................................87
Viewing Detailed Volume and Pair Information...........................................................................87
Viewing S-VOL Path Information................................................................................................89
Viewing the Number of Pairs and License Information..................................................................90
Displaying the Operation History..............................................................................................92
6 Troubleshooting........................................................................................94
Procedure to Recover a Blocked Pool.........................................................................................96
Procedure to Complete the Pool-Related SIMs.............................................................................97
Troubleshooting When Using XP RAID Manager.........................................................................98
7 Support and other resources....................................................................110
Contacting HP......................................................................................................................110
HP technical support........................................................................................................110
Subscription service..........................................................................................................110
Documentation Feedback..................................................................................................110
Related information...............................................................................................................110
Websites........................................................................................................................111
Conventions for storage capacity values..................................................................................111
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