HSG80 ACS Solution Software V8.6 for IBM AIM Installation and Configuration Guide

Table Of Contents
Figures
Figure 1 General configuration flowchart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Figure 2 Configuring storage with the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Figure 3 Configuring storage with SWCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Figure 11 Location of controllers and cache modules in a Model 2200 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 12 Location of controllers and cache modules in a BA370 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 13 This controller and other controller for the Model 2200 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 14 This controller and other controller for the BA370 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 15 Transparent failover
normal operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 16 Transparent failover
after failover from controller B to controller A . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 17 Mirrored caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 18 Connections in separate-link, transparent failover mode configurations . . . . . . . . . 112
Figure 19 Connections in single-link, transparent failover mode configurations . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Figure 110 LUN presentation to hosts, as determined by offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Figure 111 Limiting host access in transparent failover mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Figure 112 Placement of the worldwide name label on the Model 2200 enclosure . . . . . . . . . 122
Figure 113 Placement of the worldwide name label on the BA370 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Figure 21 PTL naming convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 22 PTL addressing in a configuration in a BA370 enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 23 PTL addressing in a single-bus configuration, six Model 4310R disk enclosures . . . 26
Figure 24 PTL addressing in a dual-bus configuration, three Model 4350R disk enclosures. . . 27
Figure 25 PTL addressing in a single-bus configuration, six Model 4314R disk enclosures . . . 28
Figure 26 PTL addressing in a dual-bus configuration, three Model 4354R disk enclosures. . . 29
Figure 27 Mapping a unit to physical disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 28 Container types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Figure 29 An example storageset profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Figure 210 A 3-member RAID 0 stripeset (example 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure 211 A 3-member RAID 0 stripeset (example 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Figure 212 Mirrorsets maintain two copies of the same data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Figure 213 Mirrorset example 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217