Hitachi VSP F1500 - Page 3

Contents
Preface.................................................................................................. xi
Intended audience....................................................................................................xii
Product version........................................................................................................ xii
Release notes...........................................................................................................xii
Changes in this revision............................................................................................ xii
Referenced documents.............................................................................................xiii
Document conventions.............................................................................................xiv
Convention for storage capacity values......................................................................xvi
Accessing product documentation............................................................................ xvii
Getting help........................................................................................................... xvii
Comments..............................................................................................................xvii
1 Overview..............................................................................................1-1
About Command Control Interface........................................................................... 1-2
CCI functions..........................................................................................................1-2
CCI functions matrix......................................................................................... 1-2
Provisioning functions....................................................................................... 1-3
Asynchronous command processing...................................................................1-3
Command execution modes...............................................................................1-4
Precheck function............................................................................................. 1-4
Command execution by the in-band and out-of-band methods.............................1-5
User authentication mode................................................................................. 1-8
LDEV nickname function....................................................................................1-8
LDEV grouping function.................................................................................... 1-8
Resource group function................................................................................... 1-9
Resource locking function..................................................................................1-9
CCI functions available on all RAID storage systems..................................................1-9
In-system replication........................................................................................ 1-9
Remote replication............................................................................................1-9
Data protection...............................................................................................1-10
2 CCI software environment.....................................................................2-1
Overview of the CCI software environment...............................................................2-2
CCI components on the RAID storage system........................................................... 2-2
Command device..............................................................................................2-2
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Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide