HP StorageWorks User Manual

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Port Operation tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Port Operation list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Preset list (Port Operation pane) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring external LUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Overview of configuring external LUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setting an external disk array’s port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Setting a local disk array’s port attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Mapping external LUs (Add LU). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Mapping external LUs individually (Add LU). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Select Paths pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
To map an external LU as an internal XP LDEV individually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Mapping multiple external LUs at one time (Add LU (Auto)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Select LDEV window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
To map multiple external LUs as internal XP LDEVs at one time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Displaying detailed information stored in VMA (VMA information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Setting alternate paths for external LUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Defining alternate paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Changing an alternate path’s priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Canceling defined alternate paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Changing alternate paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Adding alternate paths to multiple external LUs (Add Paths) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
To add alternate paths to multiple external LUs at one time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Deleting alternate paths for multiple external LUs (Delete Paths) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
To delete alternate paths for multiple external LUs at one time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Checking an external LU’s status (LDEV Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Obtaining information about external LUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Restoring external LUs (Restore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Displaying configuration information for external LUs (Volume Detail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Disconnecting external disk arrays or external LUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Disconnecting all external LUs in an external disk array (Disconnect Subsystem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Disconnecting external LUs individually (Disconnect Volume) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Checking the connection status and resuming external LU operations (Check Paths & Restore Vol.) . . . . 87
Restoring all external LUs in an external disk array (Check Paths & Restore Vol.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Restoring external LUs individually (Check Paths & Restore Vol.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Restoring external LUs (LDEV Restore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Restoring the LUs in an external disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Restoring LUs in a mapped external LU individually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Stopping the use of paths to an external LU by specifying an external disk array’s WWN (Disconnect Paths)
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Restoring paths to an external LU by specifying an external disk array’s WWN (Check Paths) . . . . . . . 89
Changing an external disk array’s port setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
To change the setting of the port identified by the WWN by specifying an external disk array’s WWN .
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Stopping the use of paths to an external LU by specifying a local disk array’s port (Disconnect Paths) . . 91
Restoring paths to an external LU by specifying a local disk array’s port (Check Paths). . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Deleting external LU mappings (Delete LU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Remote command devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Outline of remote command devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Notices about remote command devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Mapping command devices as remote command devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Troubleshooting External Storage XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Notes on connecting external disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Connecting Thunder 9500V subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
System parameters for connecting Thunder 9500V subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Relationship between serial numbers in the Device list on the LU Operation pane and Thunder 9500V
subsystem models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Relationship between the WWN of the port on the Thunder 9500V subsystem and the controller . . 103
Path status and examples of recovery procedures (Thunder 9500V subsystems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Connecting TagmaStore AMS and TagmaStore WMS subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

HP StorageWorks Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	StorageWorks
Category	Storage
Language	English