HP XP24000/XP20000 Thin Provisioning Software User Guide (T5227-96015, November 2011)

5 Performing XP Thin Provisioning Operations
This chapter gives instructions for performing XP Thin Provisioning operations.
• “XP Thin Provisioning Flow Chart” (page 52)
• “Managing Pools” (page 52)
• “Managing V-VOLs and V-VOL Groups” (page 57)
XP Thin Provisioning Flow Chart
Only Storage Administrators can perform XP Thin Provisioning operations. Figure 28 (page 52)
illustrates the XP Thin Provisioning functions.
Figure 28 XP Thin Provisioning Flow Chart
Managing Pools
This section discusses the following topics:
• “Viewing Pool Information” (page 53)
• “ Creating a Pool” (page 53)
• “Associating the Pool-VOL with the Pool” (page 55)
• “Changing the Pool Threshold” (page 55)
• “Deleting Pools” (page 55)
• “Recovering Pools in Blocked Status” (page 56)
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