HP P9000 Provisioning for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide

LUN Expansion..................................................................................................................33
LUN Manager...................................................................................................................33
Performance Monitor..........................................................................................................34
Business Copy...................................................................................................................35
Continuous Access Synchronous...........................................................................................35
Continuous Access Journal..................................................................................................36
External Storage................................................................................................................37
Open Volume Management................................................................................................38
Cache Partition..................................................................................................................38
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................38
Volume Shredder...............................................................................................................39
Configuration File Loader....................................................................................................39
CLI Spreadsheet for LUN Expansion.....................................................................................39
Performance Control...........................................................................................................40
3 Configuring custom-sized provisioning.........................................................41
Virtual LVI/Virtual LUN functions...............................................................................................41
VLL requirements.....................................................................................................................41
VLL specifications....................................................................................................................41
Virtual LUN specifications for open systems...........................................................................41
CV capacity by emulation type for open systems....................................................................42
SSID requirements ..................................................................................................................42
VLL size calculations................................................................................................................42
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB).......................................................43
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)...................................................43
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)..................................44
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)..............................44
Calculating the size of a CV using Enhanced mode on SATA drives..........................................45
Management area capacity of an open-systems volume.....................................................46
Boundary values for RAID levels (Enhanced mode on SATA drives)......................................46
Boundary values for RAID levels (other than Enhanced mode on SATA drives).......................46
Capacity of a slot..........................................................................................................47
Calculated management area capacities (SATA-E drive).....................................................47
Configuring volumes in a parity group .................................................................................47
Create LDEV function..............................................................................................................47
Creating an LDEV..............................................................................................................48
Finding an LDEV ID............................................................................................................50
Finding an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................51
Editing an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................51
Changing LDEV settings......................................................................................................51
Removing an LDEV to be registered......................................................................................51
Blocking an LDEV...................................................................................................................52
Restoring a blocked LDEV........................................................................................................52
Editing an LDEV name.............................................................................................................52
Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)...............................................................................53
Formatting LDEVs....................................................................................................................54
About formatting LDEVs......................................................................................................54
Storage system operation when LDEVs are formatted..............................................................54
Quick Format function.........................................................................................................54
Quick Format specifications............................................................................................55
Formatting a specific LDEV..................................................................................................55
Formatting all LDEVs in a parity group..................................................................................56
Assigning a processor blade ...................................................................................................56
Assigning a processor blade to a resource............................................................................56
Changing the processor blade assigned to an LDEV...............................................................56
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