Managing Storage

This section contains the following topics:

•Setting Up Storage Partitioning, page 536

•Modifying the Cache Settings (LSI and Sun 6130), page 541

•Changing the Owner of a Volume (LSI, CLARiiON and Sun 6130), page 542

•Managing Storage Pools, page 542

•Managing Volumes, page 544

•Rules for Creating Host Security Groups, page 551

•Managing Host Security Groups, page 556

•General Provisioning Issues, page 563

•Provisioning Issues by Vendor, page 563

Setting Up Storage Partitioning

Each storage vendor treats storage partitioning differently. For example, Hitachi and EMC ship their storage systems with the volumes already created. Other storage vendors, such as LSI ship their storage system as an empty array.

Despite the differences among storage systems, you can still use this product to manage your provisioning. Some tasks, such as volume creation, might create different results depending on the type of storage system. To learn how host security groups are created on your storage systems, see ”Rules for Creating Host Security Groups” on page 551.

For details about setting up storage partitioning, see ”How to Set Up Storage Partitioning” on page 541

To learn which storage systems are supported, see Table 135 on page 536 and Table 136 on page 537.

Table 135 Provisioning and Pool Support

Storage

Storage

Create/Dele

Create

Additional Information

System

Provisioning

te

Pool Using

 

 

 

Pool

Settings1

 

3PAR

N

N

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLARiiON

Y 1

Y

Y

See ”Additional

 

 

 

 

Information About

 

 

 

 

CLARiiON Storage

 

 

 

 

Systems” on page 540

 

 

 

 

 

LSI and Sun 6130

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

HDS

Y

N

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

HP EVA

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

536 Provisioning Manager