HP 3PAR Apple OS X Implementation Guide

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NOTE: The commands and options available for creating a virtual volume may vary for earlier

versions of the HP 3PAR OS.

Creating Thinly-provisioned Virtual Volumes

To create thinly-provisioned virtual volumes (TPVVs), see the following documents:

• HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Concepts Guide

• HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Administrator’s Manual

• HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Reference

These documents are available on the HP SC website:

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Exporting LUNs to the Host

This section explains how to export LUNs to the host as VVs, referred to as virtual LUNs (VLUNs).

To export VVs as VLUNs, issue the following command:

createvlun [–cnt] <number of LUNs> <name_of_virtual_LUNs.int> <starting_LUN_number>

where:

• [–cnt] specifies the number of identical VVs to create using an integer from 1 through 999.

If not specified, one virtual volume is created.

• <name_of_virtual_LUNs> specifies name of the VV being exported as a virtual LUN.

• <starting_LUN_number> indicates that is the starting LUN number.

• .int is the integer value. For every LUN created, the .int suffix of the VV name gets

increased by an increment of one.

• <hostname/hostdefinition> indicates that hostname is the name of the host created in

“Creating the Host Definition ” (page 7).

Example:

# createvlun –cnt 5 TESTLUNS.0 0 hostname

To verify that VLUNs have been created, issue the showvlun command:

# showvlun

0 TEST.0 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

1 TEST.1 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

2 TEST.2 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

3 TEST.3 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

4 TEST.4 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

5 TEST.5 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

6 TEST.6 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

7 TEST.7 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

8 TEST.8 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

9 TEST.9 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 2:1:2 host active 1

0 TEST.0 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 3:1:2 host active 1

1 TEST.1 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 3:1:2 host active 1

2 TEST.2 MacOSXhost 210000108603A222 3:1:2 host active 1

14 Allocating Storage for Access by the Apple OS X Host