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

60 External Storage XP panes
• Ex-Dev. Status: Status of the operation executed to the external array, or status of the path
connection. Possible values: Normal, Unknown, Blockade, Warning, Checking, Cache Destage,
and Disconnect. For a description of these values, see Table 8.
• LDEV Status: Mapped external LU’s status. Possible values: Normal, Unknown, Blockade, Warning,
and Format. For a description of these values, see Table 9.
• Progress: When Status is Cache Destage, displays the destaging process progress, from 1% to
100%.
• Characteristic2: External LU’s extended identifying information. This information is used for
identifying logical volumes in the EVA array. For more information, see ”Identifying logical
volumes of EVA arrays (using Characteristic 2)” on page 138.
• Discovery
• WWN: World Wide Name identifying the port in the external array that can be set.
• Serial: Product serial number.
• Product: Product name.
• Vendor: Vendor name.
• WWN of the external array
• LUN: LU number in the external array.
• Characteristic: External LU’s ID number.
• Device: External LU’s device name.
• Ex-Dev. info.: Information about the external array. When the external array is an SATA/FATA
drive, an asterisk (*) appears.
• VMA: Information about the VMA setting by LUN Security XP Extension. When VMA is set for the
volume, an asterisk (*) appears.
• Capacity: External LU’s capacity in blocks.
• Characteristic2: External LU’s extended identifying information. This information is used for
identifying logical volumes in the EVA array. For more information, see ”Identifying logical
volumes of EVA arrays (using Characteristic 2)” on page 138.
WWN tree
Displays information about items set in the Device tree. The contents of the WWN list changes depending
on the items selected in the WWN tree.
Figure 31 WWN tree
• Subsystem
When selected, displays nothing in the WWN tree. Subsystem is selected when you initially display
the WWN tree.
• External Devices
When selected, displays information about the external array connected to the external port in the
WWN list.
• Product name of the connected external array
When selected, displays the name of the external array for which the connection setting is already
completed in the tree under External Devices.
• WWN of the external array
When selected, displays WWNs identifying ports on the connected external array in the tree under
the name of the external array product.