The Lower Pane

The lower pane of the Virtual Volumes tab displays information about the selected volume in the upper pane. The lower pane provides three buttons, Details, Paths, and Alerts.

Details (default when viewing the Virtual Volumes tab) displays details about the selected volume in the upper pane (Figure 39 (page 54)).

Figure 39 Viewing Virtual Volume Details

Paths displays path information about the selected volume (Figure 40 (page 54)).

Figure 40 Viewing the Volume Paths

Alerts displays any alerts associated with the selected volume (Figure 41 (page 54)).

Figure 41 Viewing the Alerts

Refreshing Virtual Volume Information

A Refresh button is provided to update virtual volume information displayed in the HP 3PAR Management Plug-in and Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere interface. The Refresh button provides two options, Reload Current Page and Update Recovery Manager Cache.

Select Reload Current Page if you have logged into an HP 3PAR Storage System and the pages do not show volume details.

Select Update Recovery Manager Cache if you have logged into an HP 3PAR Storage System and the vCenter Server inventory has changed; such as newly added virtual machines or datastores, changed HBA path policies, or added ESX hosts.

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HP Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere manual Refreshing Virtual Volume Information, Lower Pane

Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere specifications

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