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

Smart Tiers tasks and parameters.........................................................................................92
Task and parameter settings...........................................................................................92
Display items and parameters settings..............................................................................93
Display items and capacity usage for each tier.................................................................94
Display items and performance monitor statistics...............................................................94
Display items and status of performance monitor/relocation...............................................94
Changing Smart Tiers pool settings...........................................................................................94
Viewing pool tier information...................................................................................................95
Viewing THP V-VOL tier information...........................................................................................96
Changing a pool for Smart Tiers to a pool for Thin Provisioning....................................................96
Working with pools................................................................................................................96
About pools......................................................................................................................96
About pool-VOLs................................................................................................................97
Pool status.........................................................................................................................97
Creating a pool.................................................................................................................98
Working with THP V-VOLs......................................................................................................100
About THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................................100
Relationship between a pool and THP V-VOLs......................................................................100
Creating a THP V-VOL......................................................................................................101
Changing THP V-VOL settings............................................................................................103
Removing the THP V-VOL to be registered............................................................................103
Formatting LDEVs in a Windows environment......................................................................103
Monitoring capacity and performance....................................................................................103
Monitoring pool capacity..................................................................................................103
Monitoring pool usage levels.............................................................................................104
Monitoring performance...................................................................................................104
Managing I/O usage rates example.............................................................................105
Tuning with Smart Tiers.....................................................................................................105
Thresholds...........................................................................................................................106
About pool utilization thresholds........................................................................................106
Pool subscription limit.......................................................................................................106
Changing pool thresholds.................................................................................................107
Changing the pool subscription limit ..................................................................................107
Working with SIMs...............................................................................................................108
About SIMs.....................................................................................................................108
SIM reference codes.........................................................................................................108
Automatically completing a SIM.........................................................................................109
Manually completing a SIM..............................................................................................109
Managing pools and THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................110
Viewing pool information..................................................................................................110
Increasing pool capacity...................................................................................................111
Changing a pool name....................................................................................................112
Recovering a blocked pool................................................................................................112
Decrease pool capacity....................................................................................................113
About decreasing pool capacity....................................................................................113
Decreasing pool capacity.............................................................................................114
Stopping decreasing pool capacity...............................................................................114
Deleting a tier in a pool....................................................................................................114
Deleting a pool...............................................................................................................115
Increasing THP V-VOL capacity..........................................................................................116
Changing THP V-VOL name..............................................................................................116
About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...............................................................................117
Releasing pages in a V-VOL.........................................................................................118
Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL................................................................118
Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL...........................................................118
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