HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software User Manual
HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software
User Guide
Part number: TB581-96350
Tenth edition: May 2013
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Revision history
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Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 11
1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite ................................................................................................. 13
About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite ......................................... 13
Features ................................................................................................................................... 13
What's new ............................................................................................................................. 14
System configuration ................................................................................................................. 15
Logging in ............................................................................................................................... 17
Navigating the interface ............................................................................................................ 18
Navigating help ....................................................................................................................... 19
Operational workflows .............................................................................................................. 20
Process flow ...................................................................................................................... 20
Configuring HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite .......................... 21
Setting up storage resources ................................................................................................ 21
Setting up users and access control ...................................................................................... 21
Creating a storage operating environment ............................................................................. 22
Allocating storage .............................................................................................................. 22
Monitoring storage ............................................................................................................. 23
2 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets ..................... 25
Registering storage systems ........................................................................................................ 25
About registering and removing a storage system ................................................................... 25
Prerequisites for registering a storage system .......................................................................... 25
Registering a storage system ................................................................................................ 26
Changing storage system information .................................................................................... 27
About acquiring the most recent storage system information ..................................................... 27
Acquiring the most recent storage system information .............................................................. 27
Operations available to SMI-S Enabled storage systems .......................................................... 28
Registering hosts ....................................................................................................................... 28
About registering and removing a host .................................................................................. 28
Methods for registering hosts ............................................................................................... 29
Priority for acquiring the WWN ........................................................................................... 30
Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector ....................................................................... 30
Registering hosts manually by specifying the WWN target ...................................................... 32
Registering hosts by using vMA ............................................................................................ 32
Workflow for detecting hosts ................................................................................................ 33
Registering hosts using host scan .......................................................................................... 34
Registering hosts using merge hosts ...................................................................................... 35
About changing host settings and information ........................................................................ 35
Updating host information registered by using Host Data Collector ........................................... 35
Changing settings for a manually registered host .................................................................... 36
Updating host information registered by using vMA ................................................................ 37
Changing settings for a host registered by using Device Manager agent ................................... 38
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Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 39
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 39
3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment ............................. 41
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 41
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 41
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 41
Create volumes dialog box .................................................................................................. 42
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 43
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 43
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 44
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 44
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 44
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 44
Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 45
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 46
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 46
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 47
Create pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 48
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 50
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 50
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 51
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 51
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 52
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 52
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 52
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 52
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 53
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 54
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 54
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 54
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 55
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 55
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 56
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 56
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 57
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 58
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 59
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 59
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 60
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 60
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 61
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 61
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 62
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 63
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 63
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ...................................................................................... 63
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 64
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts ..................................................................................... 64
Allocating volumes by using a keyword search ....................................................................... 65
Allocating volumes by using a criteria search ......................................................................... 65
Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings ............................................................... 66
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Allocate Volumes dialog box ............................................................................................... 66
About LUN path management .............................................................................................. 71
Editing LUN paths .............................................................................................................. 71
About unallocating volumes ................................................................................................. 72
Unallocating volumes from hosts ........................................................................................... 72
Unallocate volumes dialog box ............................................................................................ 73
Replicating volumes .................................................................................................................. 74
About replicating volumes (pair management) ........................................................................ 74
Copy pair management operations ...................................................................................... 75
Adding command devices ................................................................................................... 75
Editing command devices .................................................................................................... 76
Defining copy pairs ............................................................................................................ 76
Changing the status of a copy pair ....................................................................................... 76
Data mobility ........................................................................................................................... 77
About data mobility ............................................................................................................ 77
Reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab .......................................................... 78
Reports for THP/Smart pools displayed in the Mobility tab ...................................................... 79
Optimizing data placement in a logical group ....................................................................... 80
Optimizing data placement in a THP/Smart pool ................................................................... 81
Data migration ......................................................................................................................... 81
About data migration ......................................................................................................... 81
Notes on performing data migration ..................................................................................... 82
Conditions for data migration .............................................................................................. 82
Migrating data for volume performance ................................................................................ 88
Migrating data to a different storage system .......................................................................... 89
Prerequisites for migrating data from an SMI-S Enabled storage system to another storage
system .............................................................................................................................. 90
Migrating data from an SMI-S Enabled storage system to another storage system ........................ 90
Managing tasks ....................................................................................................................... 92
About tasks ....................................................................................................................... 92
Viewing task status ............................................................................................................. 93
Rescheduling tasks waiting to be executed ............................................................................. 93
Stopping running data migration or data placement profile tasks .............................................. 93
Canceling scheduled tasks .................................................................................................. 93
Moving tasks to the History tab ............................................................................................ 94
4 Grouping resources .......................................................................... 95
Managing logical groups .......................................................................................................... 95
About logical groups .......................................................................................................... 95
Creating logical groups ...................................................................................................... 95
Viewing logical group reports .............................................................................................. 96
Editing logical groups ......................................................................................................... 96
Performing operations from a logical group ........................................................................... 96
Managing storage tiers ............................................................................................................. 96
About tier-based storage management .................................................................................. 97
Values to ensure acceptable tier performance ........................................................................ 97
Creating tiers ..................................................................................................................... 97
Expanding a tier ................................................................................................................ 98
Managing resource labels ......................................................................................................... 98
About managing resource labels .......................................................................................... 98
Editing resource labels ........................................................................................................ 99
Searching resource labels .................................................................................................... 99
Importing storage system resource labels ............................................................................. 100
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5 Monitoring managed resources and resolving alerts .......................... 101
Viewing information summaries ................................................................................................ 101
About checking system status in the dashboard .................................................................... 101
Accessing the dashboard .................................................................................................. 102
Customizing the dashboard ............................................................................................... 102
About the storage systems tree ........................................................................................... 103
Viewing current storage system information .......................................................................... 103
About the hosts tree .......................................................................................................... 103
Viewing current host information ......................................................................................... 103
About tasks in the global monitoring bar ............................................................................. 104
Configuring displayed tasks from the global monitoring bar ................................................... 104
Managing alerts ..................................................................................................................... 104
About alerts ..................................................................................................................... 104
Confirming an alert .......................................................................................................... 105
Searching Command View AE Suite resources ............................................................................ 105
About searching Command View AE Suite resources ............................................................. 105
Keyword search ............................................................................................................... 106
Criteria search ................................................................................................................. 106
Criteria search dialog box ................................................................................................. 107
Generating resource reports ..................................................................................................... 109
About generating reports .................................................................................................. 109
Exporting host information to a CSV file .............................................................................. 110
Exporting logical group information to a CSV file ................................................................. 110
Exporting search results to a CSV file .................................................................................. 110
Exporting access control information for resources to a CSV file .............................................. 111
Optimizing storage ................................................................................................................. 111
About optimizing storage .................................................................................................. 111
6 Setting up HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite ............................................................................................... 113
Configuring your browser and Java for HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite ..................................................................................................................................... 113
About configuring browser settings ..................................................................................... 113
Checking management server name resolution ..................................................................... 113
Disabling pop-up blocking for IE 7 and later ........................................................................ 113
Disabling pop-up blocking for IE 6 ..................................................................................... 114
Setting security options for using Internet Explorer ................................................................. 115
Setting security options for Firefox ....................................................................................... 116
Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 1.4.2 to link with other products ........................... 116
Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 5.0 and 6.0 to link with other products .................. 116
Configuring log output settings ........................................................................................... 117
Configuring JRE versions from JWS ..................................................................................... 117
Clearing the cache when upgrading HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite ............................................................................................................................... 118
Managing users ..................................................................................................................... 118
About managing users ...................................................................................................... 118
User ID and password policies ........................................................................................... 118
User operation permissions ................................................................................................ 119
Creating a user account .................................................................................................... 123
Editing the profile for a user account ................................................................................... 123
Editing your own user profile ............................................................................................. 123
Changing the password for a user account .......................................................................... 124
Changing your password .................................................................................................. 124
Changing permissions for a user account ............................................................................ 124
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Changing the lock status of user accounts ............................................................................ 124
Configuring external authentication for users ........................................................................ 125
Configuring external authentication for groups ..................................................................... 125
Controlling access to resources ................................................................................................. 126
About access control ......................................................................................................... 126
Access control examples for P9500 Disk Array ..................................................................... 127
Resource groups ............................................................................................................... 128
Prerequisites for creating resource groups ............................................................................ 128
Creating resource groups .................................................................................................. 129
Editing a resource group ................................................................................................... 129
Prerequisites for creating user groups .................................................................................. 129
Creating user groups ........................................................................................................ 131
Editing a user group ......................................................................................................... 132
Assigning resource groups and roles to a user group ............................................................ 132
Changing a user’s user group ............................................................................................ 132
Setting up security ................................................................................................................... 132
About configuring security options ...................................................................................... 132
Setting a password policy ................................................................................................. 133
Setting automatic account locking ...................................................................................... 133
Setting a warning banner message .................................................................................... 133
Downloading components ....................................................................................................... 133
About downloading components ........................................................................................ 133
Downloading agents, CLI, and Host Data Collector files ........................................................ 133
Managing licenses ................................................................................................................. 134
About license management ............................................................................................... 134
Registering a license ......................................................................................................... 134
Checking license information ............................................................................................. 135
Information for checking the input history of license keys ........................................................ 135
7 Linking related products .................................................................. 137
Launching other HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite products ............ 137
About launching other HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
products .......................................................................................................................... 137
Starting related products ................................................................................................... 137
Starting Element Manager ................................................................................................. 137
8 Troubleshooting ............................................................................. 139
About troubleshooting ............................................................................................................. 139
Troubleshooting examples ........................................................................................................ 139
9 Support and other resources ............................................................ 141
Contacting HP ........................................................................................................................ 141
HP technical support ......................................................................................................... 141
Subscription service .......................................................................................................... 141
Documentation feedback ................................................................................................... 141
Related information ................................................................................................................. 141
Conventions ........................................................................................................................... 142
A Managing storage resources that have virtual IDs .............................. 145
About managing storage resources that have virtual IDs ............................................................... 145
Displaying virtual ID information ............................................................................................... 146
Allocating volumes to hosts with virtual IDs ................................................................................. 146
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B Operations in Legacy mode ............................................................ 149
About Legacy mode ................................................................................................................ 149
User permissions in Legacy mode ............................................................................................. 149
Notes on performing data migration in Legacy mode .................................................................. 150
Conditions for data migration in Legacy mode ............................................................................ 151
Migrating volume data in Legacy mode ..................................................................................... 157
C CSV export v7 differences .............................................................. 159
Differences in output between Command View AE Suite v7.x and earlier versions ........................... 159
Glossary .......................................................................................... 173
Index ............................................................................................... 179
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Tables
Methods for registering hosts .................................................................................... 291
Updating host information using Host Data Collector .................................................. 362
Updating host information using vMA ....................................................................... 373
Updating host information using Device Manager agent ............................................. 384
Create volumes dialog box ..................................................................................... 425
Create pool dialog box .......................................................................................... 486
Allocate volumes dialog box ................................................................................... 667
Unallocate volumes dialog box ................................................................................ 738
Migration sources and targets by volume type and state .............................................. 839
Volumes that cannot be used as migration sources ...................................................... 8610
Tiered Storage Manager operational values ............................................................... 9711
Search dialog box ................................................................................................ 10712
User operation permissions by Role ......................................................................... 11913
Required roles and resource groups for performing functions ....................................... 12014
Information for checking the input history of license keys ............................................ 13515
Troubleshooting errors and actions .......................................................................... 13916
Product reference conventions ................................................................................. 14217
Roles and resource groups required for migrating data in Legacy mode ....................... 15018
Data migration operational values in Legacy mode ................................................... 15019
Tiered Storage Manager user count values in Legacy mode ........................................ 15120
Migration sources and targets by volume type and state ............................................ 15221
Volumes that cannot be used as migration sources or targets ..................................... 15422
Volumes that can be used as migration sources, but not as migration targets ................. 15623
Host information .................................................................................................. 15924
Logical group information ...................................................................................... 16225
Volume, parity group, THP pool, and free space information from search results ............ 16826
Access control information ..................................................................................... 17227
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Preface
This manual provides information for HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite software.
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Preface12
1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite is a comprehensive software suite
providing management services for storage systems and hosts. Storage configuration, virtualization,
reporting, and monitoring tools are fully supported.
About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software is a group of storage
management software products that allow you to manage storage resources in large-scale, complex
SAN environments.
Command View AE Suite includes:
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Device Manager software: Supports registration of physical resources
to be managed, including storage systems, hosts, and related tasks such as volume allocation and
grouping of resources for eased management and access.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software: Supports storage tiers of differing
performance characteristics so that volume data storage costs and performance can be optimized.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager software: Supports volume data replication for
backup and disaster recovery.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor software: Supports optimizing the performance of
storage resources.
Each product must be licensed for use in Command View AE Suite. At minimum, you must license
Device Manager. Additional licensing can be added as needed for other storage management
products. Related functionality becomes available in the Command View AE Suite user interface in
the form of activated menu choices, and new or updated tabs and related screens and buttons.
Instances of the management software products above can be installed on one or more Command
View AE Suite servers depending on the scale of resources under management and geographic
location. For information about supported Command View AE Suite server operating systems, related
requirements, and product installation options, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Installation and Configuration Guide.
Features
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software includes the following
functionality:
• Server architecture supports resource scalability (millions of storage objects) and geographic
scalability.
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• Provides secure remote management over Internet and wide area networks (WANs) using a
sophisticated web client.
• Provides multiple levels of security and access for storage administrators, integration with external
authentication servers, and use of resource groups to control access to specific resources.
• Security tools to prevent unauthorized access, such as account locking, and restricted login retry
attempts.
• Provides for automation scripts using component CLIs.
• Supports agentless discovery and mapping of servers (hosts) and storage.
• Supports hosts such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Linux.
• Supports virtualization servers such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.
• Supports FC and FCoE connected hosts.
• Supports a wide variety of block and SMI-S compliant storage systems.
• Supports virtualization of volumes from external storage.
• Supports volume migration between supported source and target storage systems.
• Provides simplified volume provisioning in complex environments.
• Provides logical, physical, and host view storage management.
• Provides efficient, cost effective use of storage capacity as needed using THP pools.
• With a Tiered Storage Manager license, optimized application performance is provided when
THP pools are configured to support performance tiers. You can also use the Mobility tab to optimize data placement and operation for online data migration between tiers.
• Provides volume replication services for data protection. .
• Provides keyword and criteria based searching of managed resources, and managed resource
reporting with data export to CSV files.
What's new
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software includes the following
new or enhanced functionality:
NOTE:
The enhancements below are primarily intended to highlight new software (GUI) features, and are
not an exhaustive list of enhancements. For complete information about new features and
enhancements, see the:
•
HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software Release Notes
•
HP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software Release Notes
For complete information about management server, host data collector, device manager agent, CLI,
and storage system requirements, see the:
•
HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software System Requirements
Device Manager enhancements
For the P9500:
• Device Manager now supports:
• Setting the buffer space for tier relocation within a Smart pool
• Setting the buffer space for new page assignments to tiers within a Smart pool
• Display of virtual IDs in the Logical Groups volume lists
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For XP24000/XP20000 or XP12000/XP10000/SVS200, from System Center Virtual Machine
Manager (SCVMM) 2012 SP1 on Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2012 Power Shell
3.0:
• The SMI-S provider of Device Manager server now supports:
• Add or delete storage system
• Create or delete volume
• Allocate or unallocate volume
• Mount or unmount volume
Device Manager agent supports:
• Additional operating systems
Host Data Collector supports:
• Additional server operating systems
• Additional target host operating systems
Host Data Collector (Linux and Solaris) supports:
• Virtualization servers as target hosts.
Tiered Storage Manager enhancements
For the P9500:
• Tiered Storage Manager GUI now supports:
• Display of tier information, and frequency distribution graphs, which show the relationship
between total number of pages and I/O load.
System configuration
The following figure illustrates HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
software management server components, and the basic configuration of the storage network.
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Management servers
• The management server is where P9000 Command View AE Suite is installed.
• The management server communicates with management clients, storage systems, pair management
servers, and hosts over LAN connections.
• Additional software can be installed on the management server to provide extended management
capabilities.
Managerment server components
P9000 Command View AE Suite consists of the following base installation components, which are
always installed or removed together on the management server:
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Common Component
Provides user account management, security monitoring, and other functions common to all P9000
Command View AE Suite products.
• Device Manager server
The component used by P9000 Command View AE Suite to manage storage system volumes.
• Tiered Storage Manager server
The component used by Tiered Storage Manager to manage storage system volume migration.
• Replication Manager server
The component used by Replication Manager to manage storage system volume replication.
• Host Data Collector
The component used to collect information about the volumes used by the hosts.
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NOTE:
The Host Data Collector component can be installed on other servers and accessed remotely by
P9000 Command View AE Suite.
Management clients
• You can manage storage resources via the management server using the P9000 Command View
AE Suite web client (GUI), or CLI client software to issue commands.
• CLI client components (Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager) require a separate install-
ation from the web client.
• From the web client, with a Device Manager license, Replication Manager can be launched to
use a subset of Replication Manager functionality.
Hosts
• Hosts (application servers) access volumes in storage systems that are managed by P9000 Com-
mand View AE Suite.
• Hosts access storage over SAN (Fibre Channel) or LAN (FCoE) connections.
• Hosts can be virtualization servers (VMware ESX/ESXi) and their virtual machines, and mainframe
hosts.
Hosts (application servers) access volumes in storage systems that are managed by P9000 Command
View AE Suite over a Storage Area Network (SAN).
Pair management servers
• Collects management information about copy pair configurations and related status information,
and provides for copy pair operations.
• RAID Manager and Device Manager agent are installed for copy pair monitoring and management.
For information about performing the base installation, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced
Edition Suite Software Installation and Configuration Guide.
For information about customizing and extending the base installation, see the HP P9000 Command
View Advanced Edition Suite Software Administrator Guide.
Logging in
Before you can log in to HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software,
you must register valid licenses using the Licenses button. For information about how to register licenses,
see “Registering a license” on page 134.
NOTE:
To log in with a user account other than a built-in user account, set up new user accounts, or user
groups and roles (this requires the User Management permission, and the Admin role for All Resources).
1. Start a web browser and enter the URL of the Command View AE Suite server:
http://server-IP-or-name:port-number/DeviceManager/
• server-IP-or-name: IP address or host name of the Device Manager server.
• port-number: Port number of the HBase Storage Mgmt Web Service.
URL examples:
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• http://localhost:23015/DeviceManager/
• https://localhost:23016/DeviceManager/
NOTE:
The localhost name entry above implies you are sitting at the server. To access the interface from
another system, specify an IP address or host name in the URL. For a secure connection, use the
https URL on port 23016.
2. Enter values in the User ID and Password fields, and click Log In.
TIP:
If authenticating with an external authentication server, use the external authentication server
password.
Navigating the interface
Interface elements
• Global task bar - always visible, use for help, licensing, launching installed options (Tools menu),
and logging out.
• Global tabs - always visible, access to applications.
• Search - always visible, provides keyword and criteria based search.
• Navigation area - differs by tab, access to resources and commonly-used tasks.
• Application area - differs by tab, resource summary information, resource object list, and related
drill down details.
• Global monitoring bar - always visible, status of submitted tasks and alerts from the Tasks & Alerts
tab.
Navigation area
• Accordion menus provide easy access to many resource trees.
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• Re-size panes with divider bar.
• Access frequently needed tasks under General Tasks.
Application area
• Minimize and expand panes by using the double arrow symbol in the title.
• Click Column Settings to display or hide columns, change column order, or review column explan-
ations.
• Right-click a table header and select menu options like Hide Column or Show all Columns.
• Arrange columns by using drag and drop.
• Sort lists by clicking a column.
• Navigate large lists by using Page controls.
• Use Filter to reduce large lists, or to find specific items. Filter allows multiple conditions to be
defined.
• In a list, click a link to display more detail about the item. As you drill-down, the breadcrumb list
(item > detail) above the summary pane will be updated. The breadcrumbs are a useful navigation tool.
• In a list, rows will highlight lightly as you roll your mouse over the rows, indicating your row pos-
ition. To select a specific item, click on the row and confirm the dark highlight indicating the row
is selected. Click a selected row to de-select the row.
• To perform an action on multiple items, select multiple rows by selecting your first row, then using
Ctrl click to select multiple items or Shift click to select a range of items. To select all rows, click
Select All, or click again to de-select all rows.
• Selecting rows implies you intend to perform an action on the selected item. Actions are initiated
with buttons at the bottom of the pane, or from an Actions menu.
• To copy cell or row data, select one or more rows with data, right-click and use Copy This Cell or
Copy Selected Rows. For example, this is useful for emailing small amounts of data about a storage
resource. Note that if you select empty rows, the copy options will not appear when you rightclick. For reporting on large numbers of objects and for more complete data, use CSV export.
Navigating help
When you access Help from the menu bar, the navigation pane displays.
If you select Help from a dialog box, click Show All Contents to launch the navigation pane and
access the contents, index, search, and glossary.
Navigating
• To navigate between topics, use the navigation pane, or right-click the topic and select Back or
Forward.
• Use the breadcrumb trail at the top of each topic to see your location, or to return to a higher level
topic.
• To find information for a specific topic, click the Related topics links.
Using navigation buttons
• Contents
Open book icons in the navigation pane to reveal topic entries and subsections. As you move
through help, the current topic is highlighted.
• Index
An alphabetical list of topics. Clicking an Index entry will display one or more topics to choose
from for display.
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• Search
Search for word or phrase occurrences. Click search results to display topics.
• Glossary
Brief explanations of terms.
Printing topics
• To print topics, right-click the topic and select Print or click the printer icon on the button bar.
Operational workflows
This module provides high-level workflow diagrams that describe the operations for setting up HP
StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software.
Process flow
The following graphic illustrates the flow of system operations when using HP StorageWorks P9000
Command View Advanced Edition Suite software and HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage
Manager software.
• Server configuration steps are related to installing and configuring the server itself.
• Client operation steps are illustrated and explained further with workflow graphics and comments
in this user guide.
• Maintenance refers to troubleshooting the server if issues arise when running HP StorageWorks
P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite.
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Configuring HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
In the graphic below, configuring a browser means setting up the browser environment to correctly
display and run HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite. If you have issues,
check your browser setup.
After you set up the browser environment, you can log in.
If storage administration is to be shared, investigate the topic on managing users.
Setting up storage resources
Collectively, storage systems and hosts are called storage resources. For storage resources to be
managed by Command View AE Suite, they must be registered.
Registration of storage resources requires the resource to be reachable on the network by IP address.
After you register storage and host resources, you can begin allocating volumes to hosts.
Before setting each resource, check the system prerequisites, and check settings requirements for the
corresponding system configuration described in the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Administrator Guide.
Configure the prerequisite environment based on requirements. For example, set software licenses by
using Remote Web Console or other storage management tools, or configure a network based on
the system configuration.
If Device Manager is set up in an environment that has already been configured using Remote Web
Console, and if you want to use volume labels THP/Smart pool names from a storage system in Device
Manager, register the storage system in Device Manager, and then apply the storage system labels
to Device Manager.
This diagram describes the basic task flow for setting up storage resources.
Setting up users and access control
After users are registered, you can limit the scope of allowed operations for each user by configuring
access control settings for users and storage resources.
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To set access control you will need to create resource groups and user groups, then assign the resource
groups and roles to the user groups.
Creating a storage operating environment
To be able to use volumes of a storage system from hosts configure the operating environment
beforehand. The workflow for configuring the environment differs depending on the scale and operation
method of the storage systems.
In some environments, you can virtualize storage devices so that multiple, different storage systems
can be used as a single storage system.
If your storage system supports THP/Smart pools, you can create THP/Smart pools such that virtual
volumes can be allocated to hosts. By virtualizing storage devices and storage capacity, you can
decrease both management and operational costs by more effectively using physical resources.
Allocating storage
Volumes are allocated to hosts for applications needing storage. A variety of methods for allocating
volumes is available. For example, you can select one or more hosts, then identify and allocate existing
volumes. You can also select one or more volumes, then identify the host that needs the volumes. You
can also establish I/O paths between hosts and volumes when you allocate volumes.
To prepare for loss of data caused by disk failure, disasters, or other issues, you can manage the
redundancy of important operational data by creating a replication environment for volumes within
a storage system or between storage systems, as necessary.
By using logical groups, volumes can be managed as a group for purposes of organization and
simplification of user tasks.
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Monitoring storage
You can check the status of storage resources to detect problems and output reports to a CSV or PDF
file containing search results or configuration and capacity information about storage systems, hosts,
volumes, logical groups, and other storage resources.
If you have the Tiered Storage Manager license, you can see the operational status of storage resources
from the Mobility tab and perform integrated operations to optimize data placement.
This information can be used to migrate volumes or add THP/Smart pool volumes to optimize storage
resources. The following graphics illustrate the flow of monitoring and checking the status of storage
resources. To check daily operational status, inquiries from a host or application administrator, or for
Service Level Objective (SLO) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) inquiries, see the respective figures
below:
In summary, you can:
• View summary information from the Dashboard tab.
• Check alerts from the Tasks & Alerts tab or the dashboard.
• Search storage resources from the Search box on the tabs bar.
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• Reference data migration information from the Mobility tab.
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2 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets
This module describes how to discover SAN resources, such as storage systems, and hosts.
Registering storage systems
This module describes how to register storage systems.
About registering and removing a storage system
Registering (discovering) a storage system in Command View AE Suite enables you to manage the
storage system's resources, including:
• Parity Groups
• LDEVs
• Volumes
• THP/Smart pools
• Resources available through external storage connections
When you specify IP address (or host name) and authentication information for a storage system, the
storage system is discovered based on the specified information. For SMI-S enabled storage systems,
the SMI-S provider's IP address is used for discovery.
Note that information about a storage system can be changed after the storage system is registered.
If managing a storage system with Command View AE Suite is no longer necessary, for example
because of reorganization, you can remove the registered storage system. Removal will result in the
following:
• Configuration information such as parity groups, volumes, and allocated paths will be retained
in the storage systems themselves.
• When storage systems are excluded from management by Command View AE Suite, the information
set in Command View AE Suite, such as tiers and data placement profiles, is deleted.
Prerequisites for registering a storage system
Before you can discover and register a storage system, you must collect and confirm the following
storage system information:
• Storage system type.
• Storage system IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or host name (alias name).
• User name and password for the storage system management tool, such as Remote Web Console.
• Host name (alias name) or IP address for the SMI-S provider (IPv4 or IPv6), user name, password,
port number (for SMI-S Enabled storage systems).
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• Protocol used for Device Manager and SMI-S provider communication (for SMI-S Enabled storage
systems).
Tasks to be completed beforehand:
• Connect the target storage system to the network.
• Verify that fibre Channel port settings (such as topology and transfer rate) are specified in the
management tool of the storage system, such as Remote Web Console.
• Register accounts to be used for Device Manager in the management tool of the storage system,
such as Remote Web Console.
NOTE:
If the storage system is P9500 Disk Array set the "Administrator" user group (built-in group) for
the accounts to be registered.
• Verify that the SMI-S provider is set (for SMI-S Enabled storage systems) before registration.
Registering a storage system
A storage system must be registered to manage it from HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View
Advanced Edition Suite. When registered, the storage system becomes a managed resource.
1. On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources.
2. On the Storage Systems tab, click Add Storage System.
3. Specify registration information. This means:
• An IP address (or hostname) and authentication information (username, password) for most
supported storage systems.
• For SMI-S enabled storage systems, you will need to specify the SMI-S provider IP address,
authentication, protocol (secure, not secure) and possibly a non-default port number.
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If an SMI-S provider that manages multiple SMI-S enabled storage systems is specified, all the
SMI-S enabled storage systems under that provider are registered.
4. Click OK.
5. Check the Data Collection Tasks tab to verify that the task has completed successfully.
6. When the task completes, confirm that the storage system appears on the Storage Systems tab
of Managed Resources, or in the Storage Systems tree on the Resources tab.
The storage system is now a managed resource. This typically means volumes can be allocated to
registered hosts.
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To remove storage systems, select one or more storage systems, and click Remove Storage Systems.
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Changing storage system information
You can modify the IP address or host name or login user name and password for a storage system.
You can select multiple storage systems to modify at one time, but when selecting multiple storage
systems, only the login user name and password can be modified.
1. On the Administration tab, select Managed Resources.
2. On the Storage Systems tab, select the storage system, or storage systems, you want to modify.
3. Click Edit Storage Systems.
4. Specify the appropriate items and click OK.
5. Check the Data Collection Tasks tab to verify that the task has completed successfully.
6. Confirm that the information in the storage system list is updated.
About acquiring the most recent storage system information
To get current information about a target storage system, you can manually refresh the system at any
time.
When you refresh a storage system, displayed information is updated for storage resources, such as:
• Volumes
• Parity groups
• THP/Smart Pools
• External storage connections
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When data placement profiles for Smart volumes are being managed, you can specify an option in
the Refresh Storage Systems dialog box to search for inconsistencies in data placement profiles.
To update information about hosts, such as the host name, WWNs, refresh the hosts.
To update host bus adapter (HBA) WWN nicknames, refresh one or more storage systems. Refreshing
host information does not update WWN nicknames. When several WWN nicknames are assigned
to a single HBA, only one of the nicknames is displayed for that HBA.
If connected to P9000 Performance Advisor Software, users can also update performance information
that is displayed in the Mobility tab. To automatically update the storage system information, specify
proper settings in the server.properties file or dispatcher.properties file of the
management server. For details about specifiable values, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced
Edition Suite Software Administrator Guide.
Acquiring the most recent storage system information
You refresh storage systems to update the displayed information.
1. From the Administration tab, select Managed Resources.
2. On the Storage Systems tab, select one or more storage systems to refresh.
3. Click Refresh Storage Systems, then OK.
4. Check the Data Collection Tasks tab to verify the completed task.
Check for updated storage system information from the Storage Systems tab. Updated storage system
information is also displayed from the Resources tab, Storage Systems tree.
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Label information for volumes and THP/Smart pools is not refreshed. To apply label information being
managed on a storage system to Device Manager, click Refresh Labels.
Operations available to SMI-S Enabled storage systems
You can register storage systems that are managed by an SMI-S provider (SMI-S Enabled storage
systems) as HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite resources.
The user can perform the following operations to SMI-S Enabled storage systems:
• Register, change, delete, and update SMI-S Enabled storage systems.
• View summary information for SMI-S Enabled storage systems.
• Operate SMI-S Enabled storage systems from the SMI-S Enabled storage system management tool
(activate the management tool from Element Manager).
• Connect or disconnect as external storage systems (by executing CLIs).
Users must be assigned All Resources to reference or perform operations on SMI-S Enabled storage
systems.
For the operations that are executed by CLI, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software CLI Reference Guide.
Registering hosts
This module describes how to register hosts.
About registering and removing a host
You can register hosts as managed resources using Device Manager so that storage system volumes
can be used by the hosts and their applications.
The following hosts can be registered for Command View AE Suite:
• Normal hosts (An open host that is not virtualized)
• Virtualization servers (A physical server where virtualization software is installed)
• Virtual machines (A machine that is created on the virtualization server and operates on virtualiz-
ation software)
Depending on the user's purpose, multiple methods are provided for registering one or more hosts,
including manual registration, Host Data Collector (agent-less discovery) or Device Manager agent.
For host prerequisites and environment settings, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Administrator Guide.
You can also monitor the usage status of storage resources from the host point of view, such as
generating reports for charging each host that meets its actual capacity.
If hosts no longer have to be managed, for example because of reorganization, remove the registered
hosts. Configuration information, such as LUN paths set during volume allocation, are retained on
the storage systems, but because the host is excluded from management by Command View AE Suite,
information about deleted hosts is deleted from the logical groups that are set in Command View AE
Suite.
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Methods for registering hosts
Methods for registering one or more hosts, using host installed agents or agent-less discovery include:
Table 1 Methods for registering hosts
DescriptionMethodPurpose
To manually register individual
hosts.
To register multiple
hosts in a batch.
To know the usage
status of storage
resources for the
virtualization servers, or the correspondence with the
virtual machines.
Register each
host by
WWN.
Use Host
Data Collector.
Use Host
Data
Collector
or
Use vMA
(vSphere
Management
Assistant).
When you want to register hosts in Command View AE Suite based on
WWN, manually specify the host name, OS type, and WWN information.
Hosts can be registered without Host Data Collector or Device Manager
agent setup.
When you want to register multiple hosts in a batch, register multiple
hosts by specifying the IP address (range specification and listing
addresses are available), and the authentication information of the host
on the network. The host’s WWN information will automatically be
obtained.
If you want to allocate volumes to an FCoE port, you need to manually
add a WWN.
Host Data Collector setup is required.
When you want to know the usage status of storage resources for the
virtualization servers, or the correspondence with the virtual machines
and you want to register both the virtualization server and the virtual
machine, the virtualization server must use NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization)
HBAs, and be connected with Fibre Channel. For some virtualization
server software versions, the virtualization server can be discovered by
either specifying the vMA IP address and account, or by using Host Data
Collector.
For VMware ESX 4.x and VMware ESXi 4.x, a discovery can be
performed either by specifying the vMA information, or by using Host
Data Collector.
For VMware ESXi 5.x, a discovery can be performed only by using Host
Data Collector.
For virtual machines, install Device Manager agent or use Host Data
Collector to specify the IP address (range specification and listing
addresses are available), and the authentication information of the host
on the network.
Note that if the virtualization server is not using NPIV HBAs, either a
virtualization server or a virtual machine can be registered per HBA unit
(both a virtualization server and a virtual machine cannot be registered
in the same WWN).
To automatically
acquire host information, or to
manage a copy
pair by using the
replication functionality of the volume.
Use Device
Manager
agent.
When you want to automatically acquire host information, or to manage
a copy pair by using the replication functionality of the volume, install
Device Manager agent on each host or on the management server of the
copy pair. Host information or copy pair information will be sent from
Device Manager agent. For details about how to install the Device
Manager agent, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Installation and Configuration Guide.
To exclude a host from management by Command View AE Suite, uninstall
the Device Manager agent, and then remove the host using Command
View AE Suite.
If you want to allocate volumes to an FCoE port, you need to manually
add a WWN.
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To newly install HP
P9000 Command
View Advanced
Edition Suite Software to an existing environment
that was configured with Remote Web Console.
Scan a host.
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To register multiple hosts in a batch operation, you can use the ImportHosts command to import
host information such as host name and WWNs from a CSV file, and then register multiple hosts in
a batch operation. Hosts that are registered by using the ImportHosts command are managed as
manually registered hosts. For details about the ImportHosts command, see the
View Advanced Edition Suite Software CLI Reference Guide
Priority for acquiring the WWN
DescriptionMethodPurpose
Use Host Scan when you want to newly install HP P9000 Command View
Advanced Edition Suite Software to an existing environment that was
configured by using Remote Web Console.
HP P9000 Command
.
When registering hosts, if the hosts you want to register include a host that has a WWN that has
already been registered, or includes multiple hosts that have the same WWN, the host which acquires
the WWN is determined based on the product or application that detects it.
When hosts are registered by multiple methods, the WWN acquisition priority, listed from highest to
lowest, is as follows:
1. A virtualization server.
2. A host registered by using Device Manager agent.
3. A normal host or a virtual machine registered by using Host Data Collector.
4. A manually registered host.
When hosts with the same WWN are registered by the same method:
• The WWN is registered to the host that was registered last.
• When a normal host or a virtual machine is registered by a virtualization server or Host Data
Collector, WWN is registered to the host that was registered first.
Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector
Use Host Data Collector to register multiple hosts, virtualization servers, and virtual machines in a
single operation.
Items to check beforehand:
• Host OS type
• Host IP address (IPv4)
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