HP P9000 Provisioning for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide

Contents
1 Introduction to provisioning........................................................................13
About provisioning.................................................................................................................13
Basic provisioning..................................................................................................................13
Fixed-sized provisioning......................................................................................................13
Disadvantages .............................................................................................................14
When to use fixed-sized provisioning...............................................................................15
Custom-sized provisioning...................................................................................................15
Expanded LU provisioning...................................................................................................15
When to use expanded-LU provisioning............................................................................16
Basic provisioning workflow................................................................................................16
Thin provisioning....................................................................................................................16
Thin Provisioning................................................................................................................17
Thin Provisioning concepts .................................................................................................17
When to use Thin Provisioning.............................................................................................18
Thin Provisioning advantages..............................................................................................18
Thin Provisioning advantage example...................................................................................18
Thin Provisioning work flow.................................................................................................19
Thin Provisioning................................................................................................................19
Tiers concept ....................................................................................................................20
When to use Smart Tiers.....................................................................................................20
Data retention strategies..........................................................................................................20
Resource groups strategies.......................................................................................................20
Complimentary strategies........................................................................................................21
Functions related to provisioning..........................................................................................21
Key terms..............................................................................................................................21
Before you begin....................................................................................................................22
System requirements...........................................................................................................22
Shared memory requirements..............................................................................................22
Overall provisioning workflow.............................................................................................23
2 Configuring resource groups......................................................................24
System configuration using resource groups................................................................................24
Resource groups examples.......................................................................................................24
Example of resource groups sharing a port............................................................................24
Example of resource groups not sharing ports........................................................................26
Meta_resource.......................................................................................................................27
Resource lock.........................................................................................................................27
User groups...........................................................................................................................27
Resource group assignments.....................................................................................................27
Resource group license requirements.........................................................................................28
Resource group rules, restrictions, and guidelines........................................................................28
Creating a resource group.......................................................................................................28
Adding resources to a resource group.......................................................................................29
Removing resources from a resource group.................................................................................29
Managing Resource Groups.....................................................................................................30
Changing the name of a resource group...............................................................................30
Deleting a resource group...................................................................................................30
Using Resource Partition and other P9500 products.....................................................................30
Snapshot..........................................................................................................................31
Thin Provisioning................................................................................................................32
DKA Encryption.................................................................................................................32
External Storage Access Manager........................................................................................32
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