HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) User Guide (5992-5070, March 2010)

Table Of Contents

Contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 7

Data storage and SPM ................................................................................................................ 7

SPM environment ........................................................................................................................ 7

Minimum requirements ................................................................................................................ 9

Roles and work flow .................................................................................................................... 9

Browsing storage catalog entities ................................................................................................ 10

Identifying regions of the SPM interface ................................................................................. 11

Customize columns to display .............................................................................................. 12

2 Getting started with SPM .................................................................. 13

Installing SPM .......................................................................................................................... 13

Setting up and configuring SPM to communicate with arrays .......................................................... 13

Launching SPM ......................................................................................................................... 13

Logging in to SPM .................................................................................................................... 13

Logging out of SPM ................................................................................................................... 14

3 Configuring the storage catalog ......................................................... 15

Establishing tags ....................................................................................................................... 15

Establishing SAN IDs ................................................................................................................ 16

Creating a service group ........................................................................................................... 17

Configuring and reviewing security settings .................................................................................. 18

Configuring catalog security ................................................................................................ 20

Reviewing the storage catalog audit log ................................................................................ 20

Modifying storage catalog properties .......................................................................................... 21

Modifying catalog security settings ....................................................................................... 21

Modifying storage catalog tags ........................................................................................... 22

Modifying Network/SAN IDs .............................................................................................. 23

4 Importing storage into the storage catalog .......................................... 25

Adding an array ....................................................................................................................... 25

Adding a managed array ................................................................................................... 26

Adding an unmanaged array .............................................................................................. 27

Importing or creating a volume service ........................................................................................ 29

Tagging a service group ............................................................................................................ 32

5 Monitoring the storage catalog .......................................................... 33

Responding to Nonconforming fulfillment ..................................................................................... 33

Monitoring inventory levels ........................................................................................................ 35

6 Managing storage catalog entities ..................................................... 37

Managing arrays ...................................................................................................................... 37

Viewing and modifying array properties ................................................................................ 37

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