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

• Enabling Smart Pool from RAID Manager automatically sets Tier Management to Manual. To
change Tier Management to Auto, you must do this in the Remote Web Console.
• If you delete a pool, its pool-VOLs (LDEVs) will be blocked. If they are blocked, format them
before using them.
Smart Tiers tasks and parameters
The following topics list the Smart Tiers tasks and parameter settings and indicate whether the tasks
can be performed or the parameters can be set in Remote Web Console (GUI) or RAID Manager,
or both.
• “Task and parameter settings” (page 92)
• “Display items and parameters settings” (page 93)
• “Display items and capacity usage for each tier” (page 94)
• “Display items and performance monitor statistics” (page 94)
• “Display items and status of performance monitor/relocation” (page 94)
Task and parameter settings
RAID
Manager
RWCParameter settingsTaskElement
YesYesCreateCreateTHP pool
YesYesPool name
YesYesThreshold
No
1
YesSmart Pool: Enable/Disable
NoYesTier management: Auto mode
NoYesTier management: Manual mode
NoYesRate of space for new page assignment
NoYesBuffer Space for Tier relocation
NoYesCycle Time
NoYesMonitoring period
NoYesMonitoring mode
YesYesDelete
YesYesChange settingsChange Settings
Yes
2
YesPool name
YesYesThreshold
YesYesmart pool: enable/disable
YesYesTier management: Auto to Manual
NoYesTier management: Manual to Auto
Yes
3
YesBuffer Space for New page assignment
YesYesBuffer space for Tier relocation
NoYesCycle time
NoYesMonitoring period
92 Configuring thin provisioning