HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Provisioning Manager348
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The Brocade Console is accessible by typing the user name and password for the switch in a Telnet
window. Then, type switchshow at the prompt to view the status of the switch.
Managing Storage
This section describes the following:
• ”Setting Up Storage Partitioning” on page 348
• ”Modifying the Cache Settings (Engenio and Sun 6130)” on page 352
• ”Changing the Owner of a Volume (Engenio, CLARiiON and Sun 6130)” on page 353
• ”Managing Storage Pools” on page 353
• ”Managing Volumes” on page 356
• ”Rules for Creating Host Security Groups” on page 363
• ”Managing Host Security Groups” on page 366
• ”General Provisioning Issues” on page 374
• ”Provisioning Issues by Vendor” on page 374
Setting Up Storage Partitioning
Each storage vendor treats storage partitioning differently. For example, Hitachi and EMC ship
their storage systems with the volumes already created. Other storage vendors, such as Engenio
ship their storage system as an empty array.
Despite the differences among storage systems, you can still use this product to manage your
provisioning. Some tasks, such as volume creation, might create different results according to the