HP XP P9000 External Storage for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide (AV400-96599, January 2014)

B Remote command devices
This topic provides information for mapping to command devices in external storage systems.
Overview of remote command devices
You can map to a volume used as a command device in an external system. From the local system,
the mapped command device volume becomes a remote command device.
From an OPEN-systems host connected to the local system, you can send RAID Manager (RAID
Manager) commands to the remote command device, which relays them to the external system
where they are executed. This is shown in the following figure.
Figure 4 Outline of remote command device
See the HP XP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide for information about command devices.
Storage systems supported for remote command devices
You can map a command device in one of the following external storage system as a remote
command device in the HP P9500:
• Unified Storage VM
• Virtual Storage Platform
• Universal Storage Platform V
• Universal Storage Platform VM
• SANRISE Universal Storage Platform
• SANRISE Network Storage Controller
• Unified Storage
• Adaptable Modular Storage
• Workgroup Modular Storage
• SANRISE9900V series
• SANRISE9500V series
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