HP StorageWorks External Storage XP user guide (T1706-96006, June 2006)
Table Of Contents
- HP StorageWorks External Storage XP user guide
- Contents
- About this guide
- 1 Overview of connecting external arrays
- 2 Preparing for External Storage XP operations
- System requirements
- External Storage XP requirements
- Installing External Storage XP
- Preparing for External Storage XP settings
- Powering arrays on or off
- Using mapped external LUs from the host connected to the local array
- Uninstalling External Storage XP
- Limitations on External Storage XP operations
- Figure 11 Example of external LU with 2 TB or less
- Figure 12 External LU capacity is larger than the specified emulation type’s basic capacity (OPEN-3 example)
- Figure 13 External LU capacity is smaller than the specified emulation type’s basic capacity
- Table 4 When external LU’s emulation type is OPEN
- Table 5 When external LU’s emulation type is for mainframes
- Combining External Storage XP with other HP StorageWorks products
- 3 Managing cache with external storage
- Guidelines for using cache with external storage
- Determining, setting, or changing the external LU cache mode
- Partitioning cache for external storage
- Determining the number and size of needed partitions
- Creating Cache partitions
- Changing storage system modes
- 4 External Storage XP panes
- 5 Configuring external LUs
- Overview of configuring external LUs
- Setting an external array’s port
- Setting a local array’s port attributes
- Mapping external LUs (Add LU)
- Setting alternate paths for external LUs
- Adding alternate paths by selecting multiple external LUs (Add Paths)
- Deleting alternate paths by selecting multiple external LUs (Delete Paths)
- Checking an external LU’s status (LDEV Information)
- Disconnecting external arrays or LUs
- Checking the connection status and resuming external LU operations (Check Paths & Restore Vol.)
- Restoring external LUs (LDEV Restore)
- Stopping the use of paths to an external LU by specifying an external array’s WWN (Disconnect Paths)
- Restoring paths to an external LU by specifying an external array’s WWN (Check Paths)
- Changing an external array’s port setting
- Stopping the use of paths to an external LU by specifying a local array’s port (Disconnect Paths)
- Restoring paths to an external LU by specifying a local array’s port (Check Paths)
- Deleting external LU mappings (Delete LU)
- 6 Troubleshooting NAS Blade systems that include external arrays
- 7 Remote command devices
- 8 Troubleshooting External Storage XP
- A Notes on connecting external arrays
- Connecting Thunder 9500V subsystems
- System parameters for connecting Thunder 9500V subsystems
- Relationship between serial numbers in the Device list on the LU Operation pane and Thunder 9500V subsystem models
- Relationship between the WWN of the port on the Thunder 9500V subsystem and the controller
- Path status and examples of recovery procedures (Thunder 9500V subsystems)
- Connecting TagmaStore AMS and TagmaStore WMS subsystems
- System parameters for connecting TagmaStore AMS and TagmaStore WMS subsystems
- Relationship between serial numbers in the Device list on the LU Operation pane and TagmaStore AMS and TagmaStore WMS subsystem models
- Relationship between the WWN of the port on the TagmaStore AMS or TagmaStore WMS subsystem and the controller
- Path status and examples of recovery procedures (TagmaStore AMS and TagmaStore WMS subsystems)
- Connecting XP12000/XP10000 Disk Arrays
- Connecting XP1024/XP128 Disk Arrays
- Connecting XP512/XP48 Disk Arrays
- Connecting HP 200 Storage Virtualization System as external storage
- Connecting EVA arrays
- Connecting Thunder 9500V subsystems
- B Required volume capacity for emulation types
- C Adjusting volume capacity for copy pair setting
- D Using an XP12000/XP10000/SVS200 with an EVA3000/5000 external storage
- E Configuring MSA1000/1500 as external arrays
- Index
16 Preparing for External Storage XP operations
HP StorageWorks XP1024/XP128 Disk Array • In External Storage XP panes, the arrays appear as
“1024” and “128”, respectively.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
HP StorageWorks XP512/XP48 Disk Array • In External Storage XP panes, the arrays appear as
“512” and “48”, respectively.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
HP StorageWorks XP256 Disk Array • In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“256”.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
HP StorageWorks 200 Storage Virtualization System • In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“SVS200”.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterprise Virtual Array
(Active/Standby and Active/Active controllers) or
HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 Enterprise Virtual
Array (Active/Active controllers)
• In this user guide, the arrays appear as “EVA
array”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the arrays appear as
“EVA”.
• Alternate paths are in Single mode (meaning that
dynamic load balancing across multiple active paths
is not enabled).
HP StorageWorks MSA1000/1500 (Active/Standby) • In this user guide, the arrays appear as “MSA
array”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the arrays appear as
“MSA”.
• Alternate paths are in Single mode.
TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform subsystem • In this user guide, the array appears as
“TagmaStore™ USP subsystem”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“USP”.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
TagmaStore™ Network Storage Controller subsystem • In this user guide, the array appears as
“TagmaStore™ NSC subsystem”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“NSC”.
• Alternate paths are in Multi mode.
TagmaStore™ Adaptable Modular Storage subsystem • In this user guide, the array appears as
“TagmaStore™ AMS subsystem”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“AMS”.
• Alternate paths are in Single mode.
TagmaStore™ Workgroup Modular Storage subsystem • In this user guide, the array appears as
“TagmaStore™ WMS subsystem”.
• In External Storage XP panes, the array appears as
“NSC”.
• Alternate paths are in Single mode.
Table 2 Storage arrays that can be connected as external arrays (continued)
Storage array Notes