Cmc Storage Hierarchy; Icons; Using The Tab Window; Tab Window Conventions - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

CMC storage hierarchy

The items in the navigation window follow a specific hierarchy:
• Management Groups Management groups are collections of storage systems within which one
or more storage systems are designated as managers. Management groups are logical containers
for the clustered storage systems, volumes, and snapshots.
• Servers Servers represent application servers that you set up in a management group and assign
to a volume to provide access to that volume.
• Sites Sites are used to designate different geographical or logical sites in your environment. Sites
are used with a Multi-Site SAN, and require a feature key. For more information about Multi-Site
SANs, see the HP StorageWorks P4000 Multi-Site HA/DR Solution Pack User Manual installed
in the Documentation subdirectory with the CMC program files.
• Clusters Clusters are groupings of storage systems within a management group. Clusters contain
the data volumes and snapshots.
• Volumes Volumes store data and are presented to application servers as disks.
• Snapshots Snapshots are copies of volumes. Snapshots can be created manually, as necessary,
or scheduled to occur regularly. Snapshots of a volume can be stored on the volume itself, or on
a different, remote, volume.
• Remote copies Remote copies are specialized snapshots that have been copied to a remote
volume, usually at a different geographic location, using the SAN/iQ software feature, Remote
Copy.
• SmartClone volumes SmartClones are space-efficient copies of existing volumes or snapshots.
They appear as multiple volumes that share a common snapshot, called a clone point, and share
this snapshot data on the SAN.

Icons

Each item in the navigation window has an icon depicting what type of item it is. A faded-looking
icon indicates a remote item. A description is available of all the icons used in the CMC in Help >
Graphical Legend Items tab and Hardware tab.
The Items tab displays the icons that represent items, activities, and status in the navigation window.
The Hardware tab displays the icons that represent the different types of storage systems that appearin
the navigation window.

Using the tab window

The tab window displays information about an item selected in the navigation window on the Details
tab, as well as tabs for other functions related to that item.For example,
the tabs that appear when a management group is selected in the navigation window.

Tab window conventions

Tab windows have certain similarities:
• Tabs Each tab in the tab window provides access to information and functions that relate to the
element selected in the navigation window. For example, when a cluster is selected in the navig-
ation window, the tabs contain information and functionality that relate specifically to clusters,
such as usage information about volumes and storage systems in that cluster and iSCSI sessions
connected to the volumes.
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