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Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................5

What's new.............................................................................................................................5

Online help video tutorials.........................................................................................................5

2 Working with HP P6000 SmartStart..............................................................6

HP P6000 SmartStart features....................................................................................................6

Adding storage to application servers.........................................................................................7

Checking embedded switches with Brocade Web Tools.................................................................8

Checking embedded switches with HP P6000 Command View.......................................................9

Checking HP EVA storage system licenses..................................................................................10

Configuring application servers................................................................................................10

Configuring HP EVA storage management servers.......................................................................11

Initializing supported HP EVA storage systems............................................................................11

Installing HP EVA storage system licenses...................................................................................12

Provisioning storage volumes for application servers....................................................................13

Running HP P6000 Command View..........................................................................................13

Adding individual HP P6000 Command View components..........................................................13

Removing a host (unregistering)................................................................................................14

Running switch management software.......................................................................................15

Supported storage systems.......................................................................................................15

VMware servers ....................................................................................................................15

Viewing the log......................................................................................................................16

3 HP P6000 SmartStart concepts..................................................................17

Storage area network..............................................................................................................17

Storage management concepts.................................................................................................17

Application servers.................................................................................................................18

Application storage volumes....................................................................................................19

Disk groups...........................................................................................................................19

Disk group capacity................................................................................................................21

Disk group guidelines and best practices...................................................................................22

Embedded Fibre Channel switches and management software.....................................................23

Embedded Fibre Channel switch zoning....................................................................................24

Host bus adapters - Fibre Channel............................................................................................24

Host bus adapters - iSCSI.........................................................................................................24

HP license key delivery service.................................................................................................25

HP P6000 Command View software suite..................................................................................26

HP P6000 Command View ABM and SBM versions....................................................................26

HP P6000 iSCSI connectivity option..........................................................................................26

HP P6000 support tools..........................................................................................................26

HP P6000 storage system licensing...........................................................................................27

HP P6000 storage management servers....................................................................................28

HP P6000 MPIO DSM multipath software..................................................................................29

HP P6000 VDS hardware provider software...............................................................................29

HP Management Integration Framework software........................................................................29

HP ProLiant Support Packs........................................................................................................30

Initialization of storage systems.................................................................................................30

Mount points or drive letters.....................................................................................................30

Physical disk drive capacity......................................................................................................30

Storage capacity FAQ.............................................................................................................31

Storage system capacity..........................................................................................................31

Thin provisioning....................................................................................................................32

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