HP P9000 Provisioning for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide

Using a system disk................................................................................................................57
System disk rules, restrictions, and guidelines.........................................................................57
4 Configuring expanded LU provisioning........................................................59
About LUSE ...........................................................................................................................59
LUN Expansion license requirements.........................................................................................59
Supported operating systems....................................................................................................59
LUSE configuration example.....................................................................................................60
LUSE configuration rules, restrictions, and guidelines ..................................................................60
LUSE operations using a path-defined LDEV................................................................................61
LUSE provisioning workflow......................................................................................................62
Opening the LUN Expansion (LUSE) window..............................................................................62
Viewing a concatenated parity group........................................................................................63
Creating a LUSE volume .........................................................................................................63
Resetting an unregistered LUSE volume......................................................................................66
Maintaining LUSE volumes.......................................................................................................67
Viewing LUSE volume details...............................................................................................67
Changing capacity on a LUSE volume..................................................................................67
Releasing a LUSE volume....................................................................................................67
5 Configuring thin provisioning ....................................................................69
Thin Provisioning overview.......................................................................................................69
Smart Tiers overview...............................................................................................................69
Thin provisioning requirements.................................................................................................69
License requirements...........................................................................................................69
Pool requirements...............................................................................................................70
Pool-VOL requirements........................................................................................................71
THP V-VOL requirements......................................................................................................72
Requirements for increasing THP V-VOL capacity....................................................................73
Operating system and file system capacity............................................................................73
Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers with other P9500 products.................................................75
Interoperability of THP V-VOLs and pool-VOLs........................................................................75
Continuous Access Synchronous...........................................................................................76
Continuous Access Journal..................................................................................................77
Business Copy...................................................................................................................77
Snapshot..........................................................................................................................78
Cache Partition CLPR setting................................................................................................78
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................78
Resource Partition...............................................................................................................79
Thin Provisioning workflow.......................................................................................................79
Smart Tiers............................................................................................................................80
About tiered storage...........................................................................................................80
Tier monitoring and data relocation......................................................................................81
Multi-tier pool Pool.............................................................................................................81
Tier monitoring and relocation cycles....................................................................................81
Tier relocation flow............................................................................................................82
Tier relocation rules, restrictions, and guidelines.....................................................................85
Collection of monitoring information is cancelled...................................................................86
Collected monitoring information is discarded.......................................................................87
Tier relocation is canceled..................................................................................................87
Buffer area of a tier............................................................................................................87
Smart Tiers cache specifications and requirements..................................................................88
Execution modes for tier relocation.......................................................................................89
Execution modes when using Remote Web Console...........................................................89
Execution modes when using RAID Manager....................................................................91
Monitoring modes..............................................................................................................92
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