HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterprise Virtual Array updating product software guide (VCS 4.100) (5697-7055, November 2007)

Saving storage s

ystem conﬁguration information

Estimated time to complete: 10–15 minutes

When to perform: As close as possible to the upgrade

Before beginning the upgrade, the current conﬁguration information s hould be collected and saved. This

information can be used to restore the existing con ﬁguration if necessar y. The conﬁguration data is saved

to a series of ﬁles stored in a location other than on the storage system. HP Storage System Scripting

Utility (called the utility) is used to collect conﬁguration information.

This procedure can be per formed from the Storage Management Appliance or management server

where HP Comm

and View EVA is installed, or any host running the utility to communicate with the HP

Command View EVA.

NOTE:

You will need the IP address or name of your management server to run the utility.

1. Double-click the HP Stora g e Systems Scripting Utility desktop icon to open the utility. When

prompted, enter Manager (management server n ame or IP address), User name, and Password.

2. Enter LS SYSTEM to display the arrays managed by the mana gement server.

3. Enter SELECT SYSTEM system name,wheresystem name isthenameofthestoragesystem.

The storage system name is case sensitive. If there are spaces between the letters in the name, quotes

must enclose the name. For example, SELECT SYSTEM “Large EVA”.

4. Enter CAPTURE CONFIGURATION, specifying the full path and ﬁlename of the output ﬁles for

the conﬁguration data.

The conﬁguration data is stored in a series of from one to ﬁve ﬁles, which are scripts. The ﬁle names

begin with the name you choose, with the restore step appended. For example, if you specify a ﬁle

name of LargeEVA.txt,theresultantconﬁguration ﬁles would be LargeEVA_Step1A.txt,

LargeEVA_Step1B,etc.

The contents of the conﬁguration ﬁles can b e viewed with a text editor.

5. Enter exit.

NOTE:

You cannot use the utility to restore a conﬁguration that contains disk drives of different capacities.

You must manually restore that type of conﬁguration. See the “ Restoring an array conﬁguration with

different disk sizes and types” section in HP StorageWorks Storage Sy stem Scripting Utility reference

for more i nformation

You can run the CAPTURE VALIDATE command for each of the ﬁles generated by the CAPTURE

CONFIGURATION command to determine if the ﬁle has been modiﬁed since the initial capture.

For more information about using the utility or using the CAPTURE commands, see the HP StorageWorks

Storage System Scripting Utility reference.See“Required documentation”onpage12forthelinktothis

document.

HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterprise Virtual Array updating product software guide (VCS 4.100)