HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System administration guide V1.0.2 (AN540-96018, February 2010)

Contents
1 Overview ........................................................................................ 13
Product overview ...................................................................................................................... 13
HP ExDS9100 Storage System features ........................................................................................ 13
HP ExDS9100 Storage System components .................................................................................. 13
HP ExDS9100 performance block (c-Class Blade enclosure) ..................................................... 18
HP ExDS9100c (array controller with 12 disk drives) .............................................................. 19
HP ExDS9100cx (dense JBOD with 70 disk drives) ................................................................. 20
2 On-site setup and commissioning ....................................................... 23
Service planning ...................................................................................................................... 23
Service deployment ................................................................................................................... 23
Installation verification tests (IVT) ................................................................................................. 23
Customer orientation session ...................................................................................................... 24
Project management .................................................................................................................. 24
3 HP ExDS9100 concepts .................................................................... 25
Server blades ........................................................................................................................... 25
Storage blocks ......................................................................................................................... 25
LUNs ....................................................................................................................................... 26
Filesystems ............................................................................................................................... 27
Alerts ...................................................................................................................................... 27
Utility database ........................................................................................................................ 27
Virtual hosts created by VNFS and VHTTP commands .................................................................... 27
4 The HP ExDS CLI .............................................................................. 29
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 29
Starting the HP ExDS CLI ........................................................................................................... 29
Running exdsmgr commands ...................................................................................................... 30
Running exdsmgr commands at the command line ........................................................................ 30
Backend commands .................................................................................................................. 30
Sending the command to the background .............................................................................. 30
Aborting a command ......................................................................................................... 31
Checking a command's progress .......................................................................................... 31
Getting command help .............................................................................................................. 31
5 Operating the system—Common tasks ................................................ 33
Logging in to the HP ExDS9100 using the network ........................................................................ 33
Logging in to the HP ExDS9100 using the TFT keyboard/monitor .................................................... 33
Logging in using the serial link on the Onboard Administrator ........................................................ 34
Booting the system and individual server blades ........................................................................... 34
Rebooting a server blade ........................................................................................................... 34
Shutting down an HP ExDS9100 system ...................................................................................... 35
Shutting down to a single server ................................................................................................. 35
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