Hitachi G1000 - Page 5

Calculating the number of cylinders........................................................ 3-17
Calculating the number of bitmap areas.................................................. 3-17
Calculating the number of available bitmap areas.................................... 3-18
Calculating the maximum number of pairs...............................................3-18
S-VOL resource group and storage system: same serial number and model........ 3-18
4 Configuration and pair management using CCI....................................... 4-1
Global-active device system configuration.................................................................4-3
Primary storage system settings........................................................................ 4-4
Secondary storage system settings.................................................................... 4-5
CCI server configuration....................................................................................4-6
External storage system settings........................................................................4-7
Workflow for creating a GAD environment................................................................ 4-7
Initial state.............................................................................................................4-8
Adding the external system for the quorum disk........................................................4-8
Verifying the physical data paths..............................................................................4-9
Creating the command devices.............................................................................. 4-10
Creating the configuration definition files................................................................ 4-11
Starting CCI..........................................................................................................4-12
Connecting the primary and secondary storage systems.......................................... 4-13
Setting the port attributes............................................................................... 4-13
Adding remote connections............................................................................. 4-15
Creating the quorum disk...................................................................................... 4-17
Setting the port attributes for connecting the external storage system................4-17
Creating external volume groups......................................................................4-19
Creating external volumes............................................................................... 4-21
Setting external volumes as quorum disks........................................................ 4-24
Setting up the secondary system............................................................................4-26
Creating a resource group (P-VOL not registered to a VSM)............................... 4-27
Creating a resource group (P-VOL registered to a VSM).....................................4-28
Reserving a host group ID...............................................................................4-29
Deleting the virtual LDEV ID of the S-VOL........................................................ 4-31
Reserving an LDEV ID for the S-VOL................................................................ 4-32
Setting the reservation attribute on the S-VOL.................................................. 4-33
Creating additional host groups in a VSM..........................................................4-35
Creating a pool...............................................................................................4-36
Creating the S-VOL......................................................................................... 4-38
Adding an LU path to the S-VOL...................................................................... 4-40
Updating the CCI configuration definition files.........................................................4-41
Shutting down CCI..........................................................................................4-42
Editing CCI configuration definition files............................................................4-42
Restarting CCI................................................................................................ 4-43
Creating the GAD pair........................................................................................... 4-43
Verifying the virtual LDEV ID in the virtual storage machine of the secondary site
..................................................................................................................... 4-43
Revising the virtual LDEV ID in the virtual storage machine of the secondary
site.......................................................................................................4-44
Creating a global-active device pair..................................................................4-45
Adding an alternate path to the S-VOL................................................................... 4-47
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Global-Active Device User Guide