User guide

HP NonStop Storage Management Foundation User's Guide—523562-007
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About This Manual
This user’s guide introduces the concepts and components of the NonStop Storage
Management Foundation (SMF) product. It contains information on how to migrate an
existing system to SMF and how to configure and maintain SMF processes. It also
provides considerations for coexistence and compatibility of SMF with existing systems
and application programs.
Who Should Read This Guide
This guide is provided for storage administrators who are engaged in creating and
maintaining storage management policies and operations on an application-level or
system-level basis.
What’s in This Manual
Table i summarizes the contents of this manual.
Table i. Summary of Contents (page 1 of 2)
Section Title This section . . .
1 Introduction to Storage
Management
Provides introduction to storage
management.
2 Preparing to Use SMF
Describes the procedure for installing SMF.
3 Configuring and Managing SMF
Processes
Provides an overview of SMF process
configuration and management and error
management and reporting.
4 Migration Guidelines
Provides guidelines for migrating to SMF on
an existing system and migrating to SMF on
a new system.
5 File Relocation Facility
Describes the SMF relocation process.
6 Pool Management
Describes pool consolidation and removing
disks from a pool.
7 File Protection and Recovery
for Virtual Disks
Addresses how to recover all types of
logically named files.
8 Guardian Procedures
Provides information on the Guardian
procedures that operate exclusively on SMF
objects.