HP XP7 User Manual page 6

New page assignment tier...........................................................................................105
Relocation priority.......................................................................................................107
Assignment tier when pool-VOLs are deleted...................................................................108
Formatted pool capacity..............................................................................................109
Rebalancing the usage level among parity groups...........................................................109
Changing the tiering policy level on a THP V-VOL............................................................109
Changing new page assignment tier of a V-VOL..................................................................110
Opening the Edit Tiering Policies window............................................................................110
Changing a tiering policy.................................................................................................111
To change the tiering policy..........................................................................................111
Changing relocation priority setting of a V-VOL....................................................................111
Smart Tiers workflow........................................................................................................112
Smart Tiers tasks and parameters.......................................................................................113
Task and parameter settings.........................................................................................114
Display items: Setting parameters..................................................................................115
Display items: Capacity usage for each tier....................................................................116
Display items: Performance monitor statistics...................................................................116
Display items: Operation status of performance monitor/relocation....................................116
Managing Smart Tiers......................................................................................................116
Changing pool for Thin Provisioning to pool for Smart Tiers..............................................116
Changing monitoring and tier relocation settings.............................................................118
Changing monitoring mode setting................................................................................118
Changing relocation speed..........................................................................................119
Changing buffer space for new page assignment setting..................................................119
Changing buffer space for tier relocation setting.............................................................120
Viewing pool tier information.............................................................................................120
Viewing THP V-VOL tier information....................................................................................120
Changing a pool for Smart Tiers to a pool for Thin Provisioning..................................................121
Working with pools..............................................................................................................121
About pools....................................................................................................................121
About pool-VOLs..............................................................................................................122
Creating pools................................................................................................................122
Working with THP V-VOLs......................................................................................................132
About THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................................132
Relationship between a pool and THP V-VOLs......................................................................132
Protecting THP V-VOLs......................................................................................................132
Creating V-VOLs..............................................................................................................133
Editing a THP V-VOL's SSID...............................................................................................135
Changing THP V-VOL settings............................................................................................136
Removing the THP V-VOL to be registered............................................................................136
Formatting LDEVs in a Windows environment......................................................................136
Monitoring capacity and performance....................................................................................137
Monitoring pool capacity..................................................................................................137
Monitoring performance...................................................................................................137
Managing I/O usage rates example.............................................................................138
Tuning with Smart Tiers.....................................................................................................138
Thresholds...........................................................................................................................138
Pool utilization thresholds..................................................................................................138
Pool subscription limit.......................................................................................................139
Changing pool thresholds.................................................................................................140
Changing the pool subscription limit...................................................................................141
Working with SIMs...............................................................................................................141
About SIMs.....................................................................................................................141
SIM reference codes.........................................................................................................141
Automatic completion of a SIM .........................................................................................142
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