Enabling Or Disabling The Expiration Lock; Disabling An S-Vol - HP XP7 User Manual

To change an access attribute to read/write:
1. Navigate to the Remote Web Console as a user assigned to the Storage Administrator
(Provisioning) role.
2. In the Remote Web Console main window, click Actions > Other Function > Data Retention
to open the Data Retention window.
3. Click
4. Select an LDKC number in the LDKC list, select a group in which the CU belongs in the CU
Group list, then click a CU in the tree.
5. Right-click a volume for which you want to change access attributes. You may select multiple
volumes, select Attribute, then click Read/Write.
6. Click Apply to apply the setting.

Enabling or disabling the expiration lock

The expiration lock provides enhanced volume protection. Enabling the expiration lock ensures
that read-only volumes and protect volumes cannot be changed to read/write volumes, even after
the retention term ends. Disabling the expiration lock changes the access attribute to read/write
after the retention term ends.
This setting applies to all volumes in the storage system with the read-only and protect attribute.
Remote Web Console secondary windows must be defined for use in advance. When you select
Modify from the Data Retention secondary window to enable or disable the expiration lock, other
users or programs are prevented from changing storage system settings. When you close the
secondary window, Modify mode is released. For more information on Remote Web Console
secondary windows and Modify mode, see the HP XP7 Remote Web Console User Guide.
To enable the expiration lock:
1. Navigate to the Remote Web Console as a user assigned to the Storage Administrator
(Provisioning) role.
2. In the Remote Web Console main window, click Actions > Other Function > Data Retention
to open the Data Retention window.
3. Click
4. In the Data Retention window, verify which button appears beside Expiration Lock.
If Disable > Enable appears, go to the next step.
If Enable > Disable appears, expiration lock is already enabled. You do not need to follow
the rest of this procedure because attempts to change access attribute to read/write are
already prohibited.
5. Click Disable > Enable. A confirmation message appears.
6. Click OK. The button changes to Enable > Disable, then expiration lock is enabled. When
expiration lock is enabled, access attributes of volumes cannot be changed to read/write
even after the retention term ends.
To disable the expiration lock, click Enable > Disable. The access attribute can be changed to
read/write after the retention term ends.

Disabling an S-VOL

Assigning a read-only or protect attribute is one of the ways to prevent data in a volume from
being overwritten by replication software. Volumes having the read-only or protect attribute are
not only protected against these copy operations, but are also protected against any other form
of write operations.
to change to Modify mode.
to change to Modify mode.
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