HP XP7 User Manual

Managing Resource Groups.....................................................................................................34
Changing the name of a resource group...............................................................................34
Deleting a resource group...................................................................................................35
Using Resource Partition and other HP XP7 Storage products........................................................35
Thin Provisioning................................................................................................................36
DKA Encryption.................................................................................................................36
LUN Manager...................................................................................................................36
Performance Monitor..........................................................................................................38
Business Copy...................................................................................................................38
Fast Snap.........................................................................................................................38
Continuous Access Synchronous...........................................................................................39
High Availability................................................................................................................39
Continuous Access Journal..................................................................................................40
External Storage................................................................................................................41
Open Volume Management................................................................................................42
Cache Partition..................................................................................................................43
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................43
Volume Shredder...............................................................................................................43
Performance Control...........................................................................................................44
4 Configuring custom-sized provisioning.........................................................45
Virtual LUN functions...............................................................................................................45
Virtual LUN requirements.........................................................................................................45
Virtual LUN specifications........................................................................................................45
Virtual LUN specifications for open systems...........................................................................45
CV capacity by emulation type for open systems....................................................................46
SSID requirements ..................................................................................................................46
Virtual LUN size calculations....................................................................................................46
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB).......................................................47
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)...................................................47
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)..................................47
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)..............................48
Management area capacity of an open-systems volume..........................................................49
Boundary values for RAID levels...........................................................................................49
Capacity of a slot..............................................................................................................49
Configuring volumes in a parity group .................................................................................49
Create LDEV function..............................................................................................................50
Creating an LDEV..............................................................................................................50
Finding an LDEV ID............................................................................................................53
Finding an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................53
Editing an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................53
Changing LDEV settings......................................................................................................54
Removing an LDEV to be registered......................................................................................54
Blocking LDEVs......................................................................................................................54
Blocking LDEVs in a parity group..............................................................................................55
Restoring blocked LDEVs..........................................................................................................55
Restoring blocked LDEVs in a parity group.................................................................................56
Editing an LDEV name.............................................................................................................56
Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)...............................................................................56
Formatting LDEVs....................................................................................................................57
About formatting LDEVs......................................................................................................57
Storage system operation when LDEVs are formatted..............................................................58
Quick Format function.........................................................................................................58
Quick Format specifications............................................................................................59
Formatting a specific LDEV..................................................................................................59
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HP XP7 Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	XP7
Category	Storage
Language	English