10.5 HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide (AX696-96269, March 2013)

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Contents

1 Getting started.........................................................................................14

Creating storage with HP StoreVirtual Storage............................................................................14

Configuring storage systems.....................................................................................................15

Creating a storage volume using the Management Groups, Clusters, and Volumes wizard...............15

Enabling server access to volumes............................................................................................16

Using the Map View...............................................................................................................17

Using the display tools.......................................................................................................17

Using views and layouts......................................................................................................17

Setting preferences.................................................................................................................18

Setting the font size and locale............................................................................................18

Setting naming conventions.................................................................................................18

Changing naming conventions........................................................................................18

Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................19

Storage systems not found...................................................................................................19

Configuring remote support for HP StoreVirtual Storage...............................................................19

2 Working with storage systems....................................................................21

Identifying the storage system hardware.....................................................................................21

Storage system tasks...............................................................................................................22

Logging in to and out of storage systems ..............................................................................22

Logging out of a storage system .....................................................................................22

Changing the storage system hostname................................................................................22

Locating the storage system in a rack....................................................................................22

Powering off or rebooting the storage system .............................................................................23

Powering on or off, or rebooting storage systems with modular components...............................23

Rebooting the storage system...............................................................................................24

Powering off the storage system...........................................................................................24

Upgrading LeftHand OS on storage systems...............................................................................25

Registering advanced features for a storage system ....................................................................25

Determining volume and snapshot availability............................................................................25

Checking status of dedicated boot devices ................................................................................26

Checking boot device status................................................................................................26

Getting there................................................................................................................26

Replacing a dedicated boot device......................................................................................27

3 Configuring RAID and Managing Disks.......................................................28

Getting there..........................................................................................................................28

Configuring and managing RAID..............................................................................................28

RAID Levels............................................................................................................................28

Explaining RAID devices in the RAID setup report.......................................................................29

RAID devices by RAID type.................................................................................................29

Virtual RAID devices......................................................................................................30

Planning the RAID configuration...............................................................................................30

Data protection..................................................................................................................30

Using RAID for data redundancy.....................................................................................30

Using Network RAID in a cluster.....................................................................................31

Using disk RAID with Network RAID in a cluster.....................................................................31

Mixing RAID configurations.................................................................................................32

Setting RAID rebuild rate.........................................................................................................32

General guidelines for setting the RAID rebuild rate................................................................32

Setting the RAID rebuild rate...............................................................................................32

Reconfiguring RAID.................................................................................................................33

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