User guide
Table Of Contents
- MSA1000 User Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Operating System Specific Information
- Chapter 3: MSA1000 Setup and Sample Configurations
- Chapter 4: Operation and Management
- Chapter 5: Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
- Installing the ACU on the Server
- Accessing the ACU
- Description of Screen Regions
- Configuring a New Controller
- Modifying an Existing Controller
- Probability of Logical Drive Failure
- Chapter 6: Command Line Interface (CLI)
- CLI Overview
- CLI Setup
- Help Commands
- Display Commands
- Array Controller Configuration Commands
- LUN Management Commands
- Server Connection Commands
- Selective Storage Presentation/Access Control List Commands
- Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance Notices
- Appendix B: Electrostatic Discharge
- Appendix C: Specifications
- Appendix D: Hard Drive Arrays
- Appendix E: Recovering from Hard Drive Failure
- Appendix F: Controller Display Messages
- Appendix G: Recovery ROM and ROM Cloning
- Appendix H: SCSI ID Assignments
- Index
Operating System Specific Information
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■ OpenVMS supports access to MSA1000 storage connected to Fabric topology
Fibre Channel SANs and Loop topology Fibre Channel SANs. See the HP
website for a current listing of the supported operating system versions for
these different configuration types.
■ Each controller and storage unit must be assigned a unique ID number. These
unique numbers identify each device to the operating system. The range of
valid ID numbers is 1 through 9999.
Each ID number must be unique to the type of device in the entire SAN that is
visible to the OpenVMS system. Data loss or corruption can occur from
duplicate ID numbers. Although a controller and a storage unit may share the
same ID, duplicate controllers must have unique IDs and all storage units
must have unique IDs (even when they are managed by different controllers).
The controller ID is used to create a device name in the form $1$GGAnnnn,
where nnnn is the ID number.
The storage unit ID is used to create a device name in the form $1$DGAnnnn,
where nnnn is the ID number.
For information on setting the ID number associated with a controller, see
“Array Controller Configuration Commands” in the “Command Line
Interface (CLI)” chapter.
For information on setting the ID number associated with each storage unit,
see “LUN Management Commands” in the “Command Line Interface (CLI)”
chapter.
■ To access storage units or controllers that are added to the SAN without
re-booting the OpenVMS system, issue the following command from the
server:
$ MCR SYSMAN IO AUTOCONFIGURE
■ For more information on using Fibre Channel devices on OpenVMS, see the
OpenVMS Cluster Configurations and the OpenVMS Version 7.3-1 Release
Notes.
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