HP P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide (AV400-96396, October 2011)

DescriptionTerm
In a thin provisioned storage system, the proportion (%) of total V-VOL capacity associated
with the pool/pool capacity to the total capacity.
subscription threshold
You can set the percentage of V-VOL capacity that can be created to the total capacity
of the pool. This will prevent V-VOL blocking caused by a full pool.
For example, when the subscription limit is set to 100%, the total V-VOL capacity that
can be created is obtained using this formula:
total V-VOL capacity <= pool capacity x 100%
Using this setting protects the pool when doing the following:
• Shrinking a pool
• Creating V-VOLs
• Increasing V-VOL capacity
The value of the reached maximum I/O counts that each tier can process.tier boundary
A combination of determining the appropriate storage tier and migrating the pages to
the appropriate tier.
tier relocation
A storage hierarchy of layered structures of data drives consisting of different performance
levels, or tiers, that match data access requirements with the appropriate performance
tiers.
tiered storage
A group of TP-VOLs. The TP
pool consists of one or more
TP RAID groups.
A virtual device in the storage system. A VDEV is a group of logical volumes (LDEVs or
logical units) in a parity group. One parity group consists of multiple VDEVs. A VDEV
VDEV
usually includes some fixed volumes (FVs) and some redundant volumes (free spaces).
The number of FVs is determined by the emulation type.
A volume in which a fixed-sized volume is divided into arbitrary sizes.variable-sized volume (CV)
Before you begin
Before you begin provisioning your P9500 storage system, certain requirements must be met.
System requirements
• The P9500 hardware, microcode, and Remote Web Console essential for operating the
storage system be installed and configured for use.
• A P9500 storage system.
• The storage system must have parity groups installed.
• A Remote Web Console client computer.
Shared memory requirements
If configuring thin provisioning, Thin Provisioning requires dedicated shared memory for the V-VOL
management area.
The V-VOL management area, which is automatically created when shared memory is added, is
an area used to store information for associating pool-VOLs and THP V-VOLs.
If Thin Provisioning is used, at least 16 GB of shared memory consisting of two sections is required.
The memory capacity allocated to each part is as follows:
• Basic part: 8 GB
• Thin Provisioning: 8 GB
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