User`s guide

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Tips and Features for Administrators
Managing Domain Configuration Schemes
Important:
Reserved for partitioned servers and extended systems.
Certain features described below are only available if you are connected to a Storage Area
Network (SAN).
Please contact your Bull Sales Representative for sales information.
What You Can Do
From the Schemes Control pane, you can:
• Create a domain configuration scheme
• Edit a domain configuration scheme
• Copy a domain configuration scheme
• Delete a domain configuration scheme
• Rename a domain configuration scheme
Creating a Domain Configuration Scheme
Pre-requisites
• Required EFI LUNs and Data LUNs must be created from the utility delivered with the
storage subsystem.
See Configuring System and Data Disks, on page 5-5.
• SAN LUN and/or Local LUN lists must be updated from the Logical Units page.
See Updating SAN LUNs, on page 5-59 and/or Updating Local LUNs, on page 5-60 and
on page 5-56.
• SAN Fibre Channel HBA World Wide Name (WWN) parameters must be up-to-date.
See Checking and Updating Fibre Channel HBA World Wide Names, on page 5-64.
• Domain Identities can either be created via the Domain Scheme wizard or, independently,
via the Identities configuration page. See Creating a Domain Identity, on page 5-50.
• At least one IOC and one QBB are required for each server domain.
Steps
• Assess requirements
• Create EFI and/or Data LUNs
• Update the LUN lists
• Update Fibre Channel World Wide Name (WWN) parameters*
• Select the Central Subsystem(s)
• Define the number of domains
For each domain in the scheme:
• Select / create a domain identity
• Select an EFI LUN
• Select Data LUNs*
• Link LUNs to the Fibre Channel Host*
• Lock access to hardware resources
* Reserved for systems connected to a Storage Area Network (SAN)