Hitachi G1500 - Open-Systems Host Platform Support; System Configuration

Users should plan for path failover (alternate pathing) to ensure the highest data
availability
. The logical units can be mapped for access fr
om multiple ports or multiple
tar
get IDs. The number of connected hosts is limited only b
y the number of Fibre
Channel ports installed and the requirement for alternate pathing within each host. If
possible, the primary path and alternate paths should be attached to dierent channel
cards.
Open-systems host platform support
The VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 storage systems support most major open-
system operating systems, including Windows
®
, Solaris, IBM AIX
®
, Linux, HP-UX, and
VMware. For complete information about supported operating systems, visit
https://
support.hds.com/en_us/interoperability.html.
For a complete list of the stor
age system user guides, including the Open-Systems Host
Attachment Guide, see the Pr
oduct Overvie
w.
System configuration
After physical installation of the stor
age system is complete, users can congure the
storage system for open-systems operations.
Refer to the following documents for information and instructions about conguring
your storage system for open-systems operations:
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The host attachment guide provides information and instructions to congure the
storage system and data storage devices for attachment to the open-systems hosts.
Note: The stor
age system queue depth and other par
ameters ar
e
adjustable. See the Open-Systems Host Attachment Guide for queue depth
and other r
equirements.
■
The System Administrator Guide pro
vides instructions for installing, conguring, and
using Device Manager - Storage Navigator
to perform resource and data management
operations on the storage system.
■
The Provisioning Guide for Open Systems describes and provides instructions for
conguring the storage system for host operations, including FC port conguration,
LUN mapping, host groups, host modes and host mode options, and LUN security.
Each Fibre Channel port on the storage system provides addressing capabilities for up
to 2,048 LUNs across as many as 255 host groups, each with its own LUN 0, host
mode, and host mode options. Multiple host groups are supported using LUN
security.
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The Hitachi SNMP Agent User Guide describes the SNMP API interface for the storage
systems and provides instructions for conguring and performing SNMP operations.
■
The Provisioning Guide for Open Systems provides instructions for conguring multiple
custom volumes (logical units) under single LDEVs on the VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and
VSP F1500.
Open-systems host platform support
Chapter 3: Hardware architecture
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