HP StoreVirtual 4000 User Manual page 11

Adding a Fibre Channel server connection..........................................................................201
Manually configuring a Fibre Channel initiator....................................................................201
Deleting a manually configured Fibre Channel initiator....................................................202
Editing a Fibre Channel server connection...........................................................................202
Deleting a Fibre Channel server connection.........................................................................202
Completing the Fibre Channel setup...................................................................................202
Clustering server connections.................................................................................................203
Requirements for clustering servers.....................................................................................203
Creating a server cluster...................................................................................................203
Viewing the relationship between storage systems, volumes, and servers.................................204
Editing a server cluster......................................................................................................204
Deleting a server cluster....................................................................................................204
Assigning iSCSI server connections access to volumes...............................................................205
Assigning server iSCSI connections from a volume................................................................206
Assigning volumes from an iSCSI connection.......................................................................206
Assigning volumes to Fibre Channel servers.............................................................................206
Assigning Fibre Channel servers from a volume....................................................................207
Assigning volumes from a Fibre Channel server...................................................................207
Assigning a boot volume to a Fibre Channel server..............................................................207
Editing server connection and volume assignments....................................................................207
17 Monitoring performance .......................................................................209
Prerequisites.........................................................................................................................209
Introduction to using performance information..........................................................................209
What can I learn about my SAN?......................................................................................209
Current SAN activities example.....................................................................................210
Workload characterization example..............................................................................210
Fault isolation example.....................................................................................................210
What can I learn about my volumes?......................................................................................211
Most active volumes examples...........................................................................................211
Activity generated by a specific server example...................................................................212
Planning for SAN improvements.............................................................................................212
Network utilization to determine if NIC bonding could improve performance example..............212
Load comparison of two clusters example............................................................................213
Load comparison of two volumes example...........................................................................213
Accessing and understanding the Performance Monitor window.................................................214
Performance Monitor toolbar.............................................................................................215
Performance monitor graph...............................................................................................215
Performance monitor table................................................................................................216
Understanding the performance statistics.............................................................................217
Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters.............................................................................219
Performance monitoring and analysis concepts.........................................................................219
Workloads......................................................................................................................219
Access type.....................................................................................................................219
Access size.....................................................................................................................220
Access pattern.................................................................................................................220
Queue depth...................................................................................................................220
Changing the sample interval and time zone............................................................................220
Adding statistics...................................................................................................................220
Viewing statistic details.....................................................................................................221
Removing and clearing statistics.............................................................................................222
Removing a statistic..........................................................................................................222
Clearing the sample data..................................................................................................222
Clearing the display.........................................................................................................222
Resetting defaults.............................................................................................................222
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