Viewing The Progress Of Rebalancing The Usage Level Among Parity Groups; Increasing Pool Capacity - HP XP7 User Manual

NOTE: Following are cases that the formatted pool capacity may decrease:
New pages are being allocated.
LDEV format is being performed on the pool-VOL.
Correction copy is being executed.

Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among parity groups

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
1. In the Storage Systems tree on the left pane of the top window, select Pool.
2. From the Pools table on the right, click the row of a pool you want to confirm the progress of
rebalancing the usage level among parity groups.
3. Click More Actions to select View Pool Management Status.
The View Pool Management Status window appears.
NOTE: Following are cases that the progress ratio may not increase:
The usage level is being rebalanced among the parity groups in pools other than the selected
pool.
Tier relocation is performed.

Increasing pool capacity

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
Adding the pool-VOL to the pool created for Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers increases the pool
capacity. The amount of pool capacity registered in the pool represents the pool capacity. You
need to check the pool free capacity to determine if additional pool capacity is required. You
cannot increase the pool capacity while it is being shrunk.
Notes on using Thin Provisioning
The internal volume, and the external volume whose Cache Mode is set to Disable cannot
coexist.
The external volume whose Cache Mode is set to Enable, and the external volume whose Cache
Mode is set to Disable cannot coexist.
Notes on using Smart Tiers
When pool-VOLs with the available monitoring information are added in a pool, tier relocation
is performed. When pool-VOLs with no available monitoring information are added in a pool,
the page usage rate is averaged out in a tier.
If the pool-VOL is the external volume, set Enable for Cache Mode.
If the pool-VOLs are added, the tier relocation being performed stops.
To increase pool capacity:
1. In the Remote Web Console main window, in the Storage Systems tree, select Pool.
2. From the Pools table, select the pool for which you want to increase the capacity. You cannot
increase pool capacity for multiple pools.
3. Click Expand Pool.
4. In the Expand Pool window, select the pool-VOL.
146 Configuring thin provisioning