Hitachi VSP G400 User Manual

5 Provisioning operations with CCI............................................................5-1
About provisioning operations..................................................................................5-2
Overview of the configuration setting command..................................................5-2
Synchronous command processing........................................................... 5-3
Asynchronous command processing..........................................................5-3
Errors during asynchronous command processing......................................5-3
Workflow for executing asynchronous commands...................................... 5-4
Asynchronous commands.........................................................................5-4
Help on configuration setting commands............................................................5-6
LDEV nickname function....................................................................................5-6
Available provisioning operations............................................................................. 5-6
Provisioning operations that can be performed on device groups..............................5-13
Operation method...........................................................................................5-14
Workflow for performing provisioning operations.....................................................5-15
Resource group operations.................................................................................... 5-16
Creating resource groups................................................................................ 5-16
Deleting resource groups.................................................................................5-16
Allocating resources to other resource groups...................................................5-17
Execution example..........................................................................................5-18
Internal volume operations.................................................................................... 5-18
Creating internal volumes (open-systems)........................................................ 5-18
Script examples (open systems).......................................................................5-20
Creating internal volumes (Mainframe volume)................................................. 5-22
Script examples.....................................................................................5-23
Script examples.............................................................................................. 5-25
Virtual volume (Dynamic Provisioning) operations....................................................5-26
Creating virtual volumes (Dynamic Provisioning)............................................... 5-26
Script examples.............................................................................................. 5-28
Deleting a virtual volume for which capacity saving is enabled........................... 5-31
Using the -operation initialize_capacity_saving option of the
raidcom delete ldev command to delete a virtual volume.................5-31
Deleting a virtual volume by blocking, initializing, and then deleting the
volume................................................................................................. 5-32
Virtual volume (Dynamic Provisioning for Mainframe) operations.............................. 5-33
Creating virtual volumes (Dynamic Provisioning for Mainframe)..........................5-33
Script examples.............................................................................................. 5-34
Virtual volume (Dynamic Tiering) operations........................................................... 5-36
Operational flow............................................................................................. 5-36
Creating virtual volumes (Dynamic Tiering).......................................................5-38
Script examples.............................................................................................. 5-40
Configuring iSCSI virtual ports............................................................................... 5-43
Setting an iSCSI virtual port.............................................................................5-44
Deleting an iSCSI virtual port...........................................................................5-44
External volume operations....................................................................................5-45
Creating external volumes (Fibre Channel)........................................................5-45
Creating external volumes (iSCSI)....................................................................5-47
Script Examples.............................................................................................. 5-50
Virtual Partition Manager operations.......................................................................5-53
Performing Virtual Partition Manager operations................................................5-53
Displaying CLPR information............................................................................ 5-54
Migrating parity groups in a CLPR.................................................................... 5-54
Displaying parity group information........................................................ 5-54
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Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide

Hitachi VSP G400 Specifications

General

Brand	Hitachi
Model	VSP G400
Category	Storage
Language	English