Decreasing Pool Capacity; Stopping The Decrease Of Pool Capacity - HP XP7 User Manual

When pool-VOLs in the tier are empty, the appropriate tier is deleted.
Deleting the pool-VOL stops the tier relocation. The process resumes after the pool-VOL is
deleted.

Decreasing pool capacity

Use this procedure to decrease pool capacity.
Prerequisites
The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
Procedure
1. Open the Pools window.
In Command View Advanced Edition:
a. On the Resources tab, click Storage Systems, and then expand All Storage Systems.
b. Expand the target storage system, right-click THP Pools, and then select System GUI.
In Remote Web Console:
a. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.
b. Click Pools.
2. In the Explorer pane, expand the Storage Systems tree, and click Pools.
3. Select the pool that contains the pool-VOLs to be deleted.
4. From the Pool volumes, select the pool-VOL to be deleted.
You cannot delete pool-VOLs unless Shrinkable is applied.
5. Click Shrink Pool.
The Shrink Pool window opens.
The details of Before Shrinking and After Shrinking, including the pool capacity, the used
pool capacity and the free pool capacity, appears in Prediction of Shrinking.
6. Click Finish.
The Confirm window appears.
7. In the Task Name text box, type a unique name for the task or accept the default.
You can enter up to 32 ASCII characters and symbols, with the exception of: \ / : , ; * ? "
< > |. The value "date-window name" is entered by default.
8. Click Apply.
If the Go to tasks window for status check box is selected, the Tasks window appears.

Stopping the decrease of pool capacity

Use this procedure to stop the decrease of pool capacity..
Procedure
1. Open the Pools window.
In Command View Advanced Edition:
a. On the Resources tab, click Storage Systems, and then expand All Storage Systems.
b. Expand the target storage system, right-click THP Pools, and then select System GUI.
In Remote Web Console:
a. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.
b. Click Pools.
2. In the Explorer pane, expand the Storage Systems tree, and click Pools.
148 Configuring thin provisioning