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Chapter 8 Initial Startup and

Veriﬁcation

8.1 Overview

This chapter provides instructions for starting up the HPSS servers, performing post-startup

conﬁguration, and verifying that the system is conﬁgured as desired. Brieﬂy, here are the steps

involved:

1. Start up the HPSS servers (Section 8.2: Starting the HPSS Servers (page 463))

2. Unlock the PVL drives (Section 8.3: Unlocking the PVL Drives on page 465)

3. Create HPSS storage space (Section 8.4: Creating HPSS Storage Space on page 465)

◆ ImportvolumesintoHPSS(Section3.1.1:ImportingVolumesintoHPSSonpage53ofthe

HPSS Management Guide)

◆ Create Storage Server resources (Section 3.1.2: Creating the Storage Server Resources on

page 61 of the HPSS Management Guide)

4. Create additional HPSS Users (Section 8.5: Create Additional HPSS Users on page 465)

5. Create File Families (Section 8.6: Creating File Families on page 465)

6. Create Filesets and Junctions (Section 8.7: Creating Filesets and Junctions on page 465)

7. Create HPSS Directories (Section 8.8: Creating HPSS directories on page 466)

8. Verify HPSS Conﬁguration (Section 8.9: Verifying HPSS Conﬁguration on page 466)

8.2 Starting the HPSS Servers

After the HPSS serversand theirassociateddata areconﬁgured, they canbe startedupusing SSM.

WhentheyarestartedfortheﬁrsttimeafterHPSSconﬁguration,itisrecommendedthattheservers

bebroughtup one atatime, eventhough itis possibletostartup allthe conﬁguredservers atonce.

Doing so will simplify the diagnostics of any server startup problems due to conﬁguration errors.