About This Guide; Intended Audience; Prerequisites; Firmware Versions - HP StorageWorks XP10000 User Manual

About this guide

This guide provides information about the following:
• "Supported
• "Cache LUN XP
• "Supported emulation types and other
• "Restrictions" on page 10
• "Cache LUN XP
• "Pre-staging" on page 12
• "Required cache size for Cache LUN
• "Starting Cache LUN
• "Setting (creating) a cache
• "Partial Cache Residence (PCR)

Intended audience

This guide is intended for customers and HP-authorized service providers with knowledge of the following:
• Disk array hardware and software
• Data processing and RAID storage subsystems and their basic functions

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using this product include:
• Installation of the HP StorageWorks disk array(s)
• Installation of the license key for this product

Firmware versions

The recommended firmware versions shown below provide the optimal level of support for the features
provided with this product. Older firmware versions can be used; however, product features enabled with
newer firmware will not appear.
Table 1 Recommended and minimum firmware versions
XP disk array
XP12000
XP10000

Related documentation

In addition to this guide, please refer to other documents for this product:
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP User Guide for XP Disk Arrays
• HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console User Guide for XP12000/XP10000
•
HP StorageWorks Snapshot XP User Guide
You can find these documents at http://www.hp.com/support/rwc/manuals.
volumes" on page 9
tasks" on page 9
modes" on page 11
XP" on page 16
extent" on page 18
operations" on page 22
Minimum
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parameters" on page 9
XP" on page 13
Cache LUN XP user guide for the XP10000/XP12000
Recommended
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50-04-41-00/00 or later
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