HP XP P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide

Enabling or disabling the expiration lock.................................................................................168
Disabling an S-VOL...............................................................................................................169
Reserving volumes................................................................................................................169
7 Managing logical volumes......................................................................171
LUN Manager overview........................................................................................................171
LUN Manager operations.................................................................................................171
Fibre channel operations...................................................................................................171
LUN Manager license requirements....................................................................................172
LUN Manager rules, restrictions, and guidelines...................................................................172
Managing logical units workflow............................................................................................173
Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports................................................................................173
Configuring fibre channel ports..............................................................................................174
Setting the data transfer speed on a fibre channel port.........................................................174
Setting the fibre channel port address.................................................................................174
Addresses for fibre channel ports.......................................................................................175
Setting the fabric switch....................................................................................................176
Fibre channel topology.....................................................................................................176
Example of FC-AL and point-to-point topology.................................................................177
Configuring hosts..................................................................................................................177
Configure hosts workflow..................................................................................................177
Host modes for host groups...............................................................................................177
Host mode options...........................................................................................................179
Find WWN of the host bus adapter..............................................................................181
Finding a WWN on Windows......................................................................................181
Finding a WWN on Oracle® Solaris............................................................................182
Finding a WWN on AIX, IRIX, or Sequent......................................................................182
Finding WWN for HP-UX.............................................................................................182
Creating a host group and registering hosts in the host group (in a Fibre Channel environment)...183
Configuring LU paths.............................................................................................................185
Defining LU paths.............................................................................................................185
Setting a UUID................................................................................................................186
Correspondence table for defining devices..........................................................................187
Defining alternate LU paths...............................................................................................187
Managing LU paths..........................................................................................................188
Deleting LU paths........................................................................................................188
Clearing a UUID setting...............................................................................................189
Viewing LU path settings..............................................................................................189
Releasing LUN reservation by host..........................................................................................190
LUN security on ports............................................................................................................190
Examples of enabling and disabling LUN security on ports....................................................190
Enabling LUN security on a port........................................................................................192
Disabling LUN security on a port.......................................................................................192
Setting fibre channel authentication.........................................................................................192
User authentication..........................................................................................................193
Settings for authentication of hosts.................................................................................193
Settings for authentication of ports (required if performing mutual authentication).................194
Host and host group authentication....................................................................................194
Example of authenticating hosts in a fibre channel environment.........................................195
Port settings and connection results................................................................................197
Fabric switch authentication...............................................................................................197
Fabric switch settings and connection results........................................................................199
Mutual authentication of ports...........................................................................................199
Fibre channel authentication..............................................................................................199
Enabling or disabling host authentication on a host group................................................199
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