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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide iii © 2002 Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Notice : No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including ...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE iv Preface Trademarks Hitachi Data Systems is a registered trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. The Hitachi Data Systems design mark is a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Hi-Track is a registered service mark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Graph-Track, Fre...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide v Notice of Export Controls Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government and/or the government of Japan. Contact the Hitachi Data...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide vii Preface This Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide provides instructions for using these options on the 9900V Remote Console, using the web c...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide ix Contents Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN ............................................................... 1 1.1 Overview of LUSE Operations .....................................
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE x Contents List of Figures Figure 1.1 LUSE configuration ......................................................................... 3 Figure 1.2 Illustration of Virtual LVI/LUN Operations ............................................. 4 Figure 1.3 Volume Configuration ................
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide xi List of Tables Table 1.1 LUSE Specifications.........................................................................2 Table 1.2 VLL LUSE Specifications ...............................................
Page 13 - Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN; of LUSE Operations; Hitachi Freedom StorageTM Lightning
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 1 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN 1.1 Overview of LUSE Operations LUSE operations allow hosts that can only use a limited amount of LUs per fibre interface to have access to la...
Page 14 - LUSE Specifications; VLL LUSE Specifications; Note
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 2 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN Table 1.1 LUSE Specifications Parameter OPEN-8 OPEN-9 OPEN-E OPEN-L LU Capacity 7.3 GB 7.3 GB 14.5 GB 36.4 GB Possible number of expanded LUs 2 - 36 LUs 2 - 36 LUs 2 - 36 LUs 2 - 36 LUs Expanded LU Capacity 14.6 GB - 264.4...
Page 15 - Host; LUSE Configuration
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 3 LDEV (1:00) LDEV (1:01) LDEV (1:03) LDEV (1:04) LDEV (1:05) LUSE (1:00) Host The host recognizes a set of LDEVs as one big LDEV. Figure 1.1 LUSE Configuration
Page 16 - VLL volume; Illustration of Virtual LVI/LUN Operations
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 4 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN 1.2 Overview of Virtual LVI/LUN 1.2.1 Virtual LVI/LUN Parameters The Virtual LVI/LUN (VLL) option allows you to configure variable-size volumes, which are usually smaller than normal (fixed-size) volumes. Virtual LVI/LUN i...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 5 Note: Virtual LVI/LUN used in conjunction with FlashAccess can achieve greater performance improvements than when either of these options is used individually. For more information on FlashAccess, s...
Page 18 - Volume Configuration
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 6 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN A normal volume consists of a certain number of fixed volumes, depending on the emulation type, and some free space. A Virtual LVI/LUN volume usually consists of at least one fixed volume (FV), customized volumes (CV or VL...
Page 19 - Virtual LVI/LUN Specifications; VLL functions are not applicable to OPEN-L volumes.
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 7 Table 1.3 lists the Virtual LVI/LUN specifications, and Table 1.4 lists the minimum and maximum Virtual LVI/LUN volume capacities for open systems. Each Virtual LVI/LUN volume has its own assigned u...
Page 20 - Minimum and Maximum Virtual LUN Volume Capacities (Open Systems); Control Cylinders/Control Area for Each LVI/LU Type
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 8 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN Table 1.4 Minimum and Maximum Virtual LUN Volume Capacities (Open Systems) Setting size (MB) Actual Size (MB) Notes 35 35.15625 Minimum VLL volume capacity 500 500.625 1000 1000.546875 2000 2000.390625 2347 2347.03125 Maxi...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 10 Chapter 1 Overview of LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN 1.2.3 SSID Requirements) The 9900V subsystem is configured with one SSID for each of 256 devices and up to four SSIDs per CU image. Each SSID must be unique within each host system. Table 1.6 shows the relationship betwee...
Page 23 - Chapter 2 Preparing To Use LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN; Hitachi Freedom StorageTM Lightning 9900TM V Series; Launch LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN; Hitachi Freedom StorageTM Lightning 9900TM V; Option; buttons are displayed vertically on the left side of the panel. The
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 11 Chapter 2 Preparing To Use LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN 2.1 Set Up the 9900V Subsystem and Remote Console PC(s) Before launching LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN, you must take several prelimin...
Page 24 - Remote Console Main Panel, Information Tab
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 12 Chapter 2 Preparing to Use LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN Figure 2.1 Remote Console Main Panel, Information Tab
Page 25 - Changing to Modify Mode
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 13 2.3 Changing to Modify Mode If you are going to implement any changes for LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN, you must be in Modify mode. The subsystem information icons (see Figure 2.2) are on the u...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 14 Chapter 2 Preparing to Use LUN Expansion or Virtual LVI/LUN Figure 2.2 View Mode Figure 2.3 Mode Changing Confirmation Message Figure 2.4 Modify Mode
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 15 Chapter 3 LUN Expansion (LUSE) Operations 3.1 The LUSE/VLL Panel, LUSE Tab Components The LUN Expansion (LUSE)/Virtual LVI/LUN (VLL) button ( ) opens the LUSE/VLL panel. The LUSE tab is the default...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 19 3.2 LUSE Operations LUSE operations include the following: Creating LUSE volumes (see section 3.2.1), Releasing LUSE volumes (see section 3.2.2), and Changing LUSE capacities (see section 3.2.3). 3...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 20 Chapter 3 LUN Expansion (LUSE) Operations Figure 3.5 Set LUSE Confirmation Panel Figure 3.6 Apply Confirmation Message Figure 3.7 Cancel Confirmation Message
Page 34 - Selecting Free LDEVs for LUSE Volume
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 22 Chapter 3 LUN Expansion (LUSE) Operations Figure 3.8 Selecting Free LDEVs for LUSE Volume Figure 3.9 Set LUSE Volume Pop-Up Menu
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 24 Chapter 3 LUN Expansion (LUSE) Operations Figure 3.10 Selecting LUSE Volume(s) To Be Released Figure 3.11 Release LUSE Volume Pop-Up Menu
Page 37 - Figure 3.12 Release LUSE Confirmation Panel
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 25 Figure 3.12 Release LUSE Confirmation Panel 3.2.3 Changing LUSE Capacities You may not change the capacity of an existing LUSE volume. If you want a LUSE volume to have a different capacity, you mu...
Page 39 - tab is the default view. Select the; VLL
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 27 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN (VLL) Operations 4.1 The Virtual LVI/LUN Panels 4.1.1 LUSE/VLL Panel, VLL Tab The LUN Expansion (LUSE)/Virtual LVI/LUN (VLL) button ( ) opens the LUSE/VLL panel. The LUSE ...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 29 When you select a Control Unit in the Parity Group – LDEV outline, the LDEV Information table (on the upper right of the VLL tab; see Figure 4.3) displays information about the logical volumes in t...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 30 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations 4.1.2 Set SSID Panel Figure 4.4 Set SSID Panel
Page 44 - Converting Logical Volumes to Space; Volume to; space, which deletes the selected LDEVs from that parity group.
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 32 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations 4.2 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations Before starting a VLL operation on a selected disk subsystem, be sure to disconnect the mainframe volumes from the host and/or remove the LU paths to the open volumes. For instructions on removing LU paths, se...
Page 46 - Volume to Space Pop-Up Menu
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 34 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations Figure 4.5 Volume to Space Pop-Up Menu Figure 4.6 Volume to Space Confirmation Panel
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 37 Figure 4.7 Install CV Pop-Up Menu Figure 4.8 Install CV Panel (1) Figure 4.9 Clear Pop-Up Menu
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 39 Figure 4.12 Install CV Confirmation Panel
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 40 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations 4.2.3 Deleting a VLL volume To delete an individual Virtual LVI/LUN volume within an LDEV or parity group, use the volume to space operation (refer to section 4.2.1). To convert a Virtual LVI/LUN volume to a normal volume, you must initiali...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 42 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations 9. You will be returned to the VLL tab. The change is not yet implemented in the subsystem, but the following changes will appear in the VLL tab: a) The figures in the Capacity column will not yet be updated. b) The color of the CU icon tha...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 43 Figure 4.14 Volume Initialize Panel Figure 4.15 Clear Pop-Up Menu
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 44 Chapter 4 Virtual LVI/LUN Operations Figure 4.16 Set SSID Panel (Volume Initialize) Figure 4.17 Volume Initialize Confirmation Panel
Page 57 - Chapter 5 Troubleshooting; Hitachi; Check the cabling and the LAN.; Verify that both the computer and LAN cabling are; Check for any General Error Conditions.; Check the troubleshooting information in the; Check the status lamp on the Remote Console Main Panel (Status tab).; If the lamp; Download the Remote Console trace files using the FD Dump Tool.; If you are unable to
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 45 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 Troubleshooting For troubleshooting information on the 9900V subsystem, please refer to the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ V Series User and Reference Guide ...
Page 58 - General Error Conditions
PRELIMINARY RELEASE 46 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting Table 5.1 General Error Conditions Error Condition Probable Cause / Recommended Action The Remote Console experiences an error. Save the Java™ log file on the Remote Console, and report to the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Support Center. For Windows...
Page 59 - Calling the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Support Center; FD Dump Tool; , the exact content of any messages displayed on the; Status; tab of
PRELIMINARY RELEASE Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series LUN Expansion and Virtual LVI/LUN User’s Guide 47 5.2 Calling the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Support Center If you need to call the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Support Center, be sure to provide as much information about the problem as poss...
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PRELIMINARY RELEASE 50 Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations kB kilobyte(s) LAN local-area network LBA logical block address LDEV logical device. An LDEV used by mainframe hosts can be called a device, logical volume image (LVI) or a volume. An LDEV used by open-system hosts is called a logical unit ...
