HP XP24000/XP20000 Virtual LVI/LUN (VLL) and Volume Shredder User Guide (T5214-96094, November 2011)

Select Progress Dialog Box.......................................................................................................58
System Disk Options Dialog Box...............................................................................................59
5 Performing Virtual LVI/LUN and Volume Shredder Operations........................61
Virtual LVI/LUN Operations......................................................................................................61
Launching Virtual LVI/LUN..................................................................................................61
Viewing Concatenated Parity Groups...................................................................................61
Converting Logical Volumes to Space...................................................................................62
Creating VLL Volumes (Install CV Function).............................................................................63
Deleting VLL Volumes..........................................................................................................65
Converting CVs Back to FVs (Volume Initialize Operation).......................................................65
Re-creating the CVs After Initializing the VDEV (Make Volume Operation).................................67
Formatting the LDEVs..........................................................................................................70
Blocking Volumes..........................................................................................................71
Formatting Specified Volumes.........................................................................................71
Formatting All Volumes in Disk Groups or Parity Groups.....................................................72
Quick Formatting the LDEVs................................................................................................73
Creating System Disks....................................................................................................75
Blocking Internal Volumes...............................................................................................77
Quick Formatting Internal Volumes...................................................................................77
Making External Mainframe Volumes Usable.........................................................................78
Overwriting Control Blocks in Specific External Volumes.....................................................79
Overwriting Control Blocks in All External Volumes in Disk Groups or Parity Groups...............79
Volume Shredder Operations (For Volumes Using Hard Disk)........................................................80
Launching Volume Shredder................................................................................................80
Defining the Shredding Settings...........................................................................................81
Deleting the Data in the Target Volume.................................................................................82
Canceling Data Deleting................................................................................................83
Volume Shredder Operations (For Volumes Using Flash Disk)...................................................84
Launching Volume Shredder...........................................................................................84
Calculating the Number of Shredding Operations Necessary to Overwrite Data in Target
Volume with Dummy Data to Delete.................................................................................85
6 Troubleshooting........................................................................................86
Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................86
Calling HP Technical Support...................................................................................................86
7 Support and Other Resources.....................................................................87
Related Documentation............................................................................................................87
Conventions for Storage Capacity Values...................................................................................87
HP Technical Support..............................................................................................................87
Subscription Service................................................................................................................88
HP Websites..........................................................................................................................88
Documentation Feedback.........................................................................................................88
Glossary....................................................................................................89
Index.........................................................................................................91
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