HP P6000 manual 4

Minimizing the number of snapshots....................................................................................	41
Setting virtual disk cache to write-through before a snapshot or snapclone.................................	41
Suspending a DR group before a making a snapshot of a virtual disk.......................................	41
Minimizing simultaneous replication operations.....................................................................	41
HP P6000 Continuous Access software......................................................................................	42
DR groups ........................................................................................................................	42
Creating DR groups...........................................................................................................	43
Data replication protocol options.........................................................................................	43
6 Maintaining and managing HP P6000/EVA storage systems.........................	45
Initializing storage systems.......................................................................................................	45
Configure WEBES to generate alerts using Insight Remote Support...........................................	45
User-initiated service mode..................................................................................................	46
Uninitializing storage systems...................................................................................................	47
Starting the storage system.......................................................................................................	47
Shutting down the storage system..............................................................................................	47
Hardware..............................................................................................................................	49
Verifying hardware status.........................................................................................................	50
Storage system identity information...........................................................................................	50
Remote service test..................................................................................................................	50
Updating HP controller software...............................................................................................	51
Using multiple management servers to manage arrays.................................................................	51
Configuring iSCSI devices........................................................................................................	52
7 Monitoring storage system events................................................................	53
Events overview......................................................................................................................	53
Management server event log..............................................................................................	53
Controller event log............................................................................................................	53
Controller termination event log...........................................................................................	54
Viewing events.......................................................................................................................	54
Viewing additional information............................................................................................	55
Corrective action code...................................................................................................	55
More details.................................................................................................................	55
Configuring event notification...................................................................................................	55
Configuring host notification................................................................................................	55
Entering hosts individually..............................................................................................	55
Applying a customized host notification list.......................................................................	56
Filtering events by severity...................................................................................................	56
Selecting individual events..................................................................................................	57
Applying a customized event configuration file.......................................................................	57
Retrieving the parse file...........................................................................................................	57
Retrieving the Management Information Base.............................................................................	58
Sending the event file..............................................................................................................	59
8 Configuring HP P6000 Command View (advanced tasks)..............................	60
Setting user interface options....................................................................................................	60
Creating page footer messages................................................................................................	60
Setting audit logging options...................................................................................................	61
Setting a remote location for audit logs.................................................................................	61
Changing port and timeout parameters.....................................................................................	62
Changing the login credentials (array-based management)..........................................................	62
Running HP P6000 Command View in a multi-homed environment................................................	63
9 Troubleshooting HP P6000 Command View.................................................	64
Optimizing performance.........................................................................................................	64
Restarting the HP P6000 Command View service........................................................................	64
Using the right-click menu........................................................................................................	64

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