HP XP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide Abstract This guide provides information on using HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Software on HP XP P9000 disk arrays. Included is information on: command usage, configuration file examples, and information on High Availability failover and failback, Fibre Channel addressing, and Standard input (STDIN) file formats.
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Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................8 About RAID Manager...............................................................................................................8 RAID Manager functions............................................................................................................8 RAID Manager functions matrix.............................................................................................
Logging raidcom command............................................................................................48 User-created files....................................................................................................................51 User environment variable........................................................................................................51 3 RAID Manager functions on the P9500.......................................................
Help on configuration setting commands...............................................................................98 LDEV nickname function......................................................................................................98 Available provisioning operations.............................................................................................98 Available provisioning operation (specifying device group)........................................................103 Summary...........
Business Copy operations......................................................................................................135 Business Copy duplicated mirroring....................................................................................135 Business Copy cascading pairs..........................................................................................136 Restrictions for Business Copy cascading volumes............................................................
New options for security...................................................................................................179 raidscan -find inst........................................................................................................179 raidscan -find verify [MU#]...........................................................................................179 raidscan -f[d]..............................................................................................................
1 Overview This chapter provides an overview of the RAID Manager software and RAID Manager operations on the HP RAID storage systems. About RAID Manager The RAID Manager software enables you to perform storage system configuration and data management operations by issuing commands to the RAID storage systems.
Table 1 Available RAID Manager functions on each storage system (continued) Function Storage systems XP256 Disk Array XP1024/XP128 Disk Array XP12000 Disk Array XP24000/XP20000 P9500 Disk Array VSS configuration Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported SRM SRA Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Provisioning (raidcom) Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported Out-of-band method Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported S
Command execution modes RAID Manager provides two command execution modes: transaction mode that executes by specifying a script file with the -zt option, and line-by-line mode that executes a command row-by-row for the configuration setting commands (raidcom commands). The transaction mode can execute the following checking. • Context check: This check is executed when a script file is specified by the -zt option.
Table 2 Summary of the checking functions (continued) Command syntax Syntax check Context check Config check Execution raidcom -zt
