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Open-Systems Host Attachment Guide Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Hitachi Unified Storage VM Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM FASTFIND LINKS Contents Product Version Getting Help MK-90RD7037-00 © 2014 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or stored in a database or retrieval system for any purpose without the express written permission of Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd., reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use. This document contains the most current information available at the time of publication. When new or revised information becomes available, this entire document will be updated and distributed to all registered users. Some of the features described in this document might not be currently available. 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Microsoft product screen shots are reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation. ii Open-Systems Host Attachment Guide for Hitachi VSP G1000, VSP, HUS VM, USP V/VM Contents Preface .................................................................................................... ix Intended audience ................................................................................................ x Product version ..................................................................................................... x Release notes ....................................................................................................... x Document revision level ........................................................................................ xi Changes in this revision ........................................................................................ xi Referenced documents ......................................................................................... xi Document conventions ......................................................................................... xii Convention for storage capacity values ................................................................. xiv Accessing product documentation ........................................................................ xiv Getting help ......................................................................................................... xv Comments ........................................................................................................... xv Overview of host attachment .................................................................. 1-1 About the Hitachi RAID storage systems .............................................................. 1-2 Device types ...................................................................................................... 1-3 Host queue depth ............................................................................................... 1-6 Host attachment workflow .................................................................................. 1-7 Preparing for host attachment ................................................................ 2-1 Installation and configuration requirements ......................................................... 2-2 Installing the Hitachi RAID storage system ........................................................... 2-4 Configuring the Hitachi RAID storage system ....................................................... 2-5 Setting the system option modes .................................................................. 2-5 Configuring the ports ................................................................................... 2-6 Setting the host modes and host mode options ............................................. 2-7 Installing and configuring the host .................................................................... 2-12 Installing the host OS software ................................................................... 2-12 Installing the LVM software ........................................................................ 2-12 Installing the failover software ................................................................... 2-13 Contents iii Open-Systems Host Attachment Guide for Hitachi VSP G1000, VSP, HUS VM, USP V/VM Installing the SNMP software ...................................................................... 2-14 Installing and configuring the host FC adapters .................................................. 2-15 Connecting the Hitachi RAID storage system to the host ..................................... 2-17 Configuring the new hosts and new LU paths ..................................................... 2-18 ® AIX configuration and attachment ......................................................... 3-1 ® Hitachi storage system configuration for AIX operations ...................................... 3-2 Verifying new device recognition ......................................................................... 3-3 Configuring the new devices ................................................................................ 3-5 Changing the default device parameters ........................................................ 3-5 ® Changing device parameters from the AIX command line ...................... 3-6 Assigning new devices to volume groups and setting partition sizes ................ 3-7 Creating, mounting, and verifying file systems ............................................. 3-10 Creating the file systems ...................................................................... 3-10 Mounting and verifying file systems ...................................................... 3-14 Using the Object Data Manager with Hitachi RAID storage .................................. 3-15 Overview of ODM ....................................................................................... 3-15 ODM advantages and cautions .................................................................... 3-16 Using ODM ................................................................................................ 3-17 Discovering new devices ...................................................................... 3-17 Deleting devices .................................................................................. 3-17 Queue depth and read/write timeout values .......................................... 3-17 Online device installation ................................................................................... 3-18 Online LUSE configuration ................................................................................. 3-19 Creating and mounting the file systems ....................................................... 3-19 Expanding the logical volume (LP400) ......................................................... 3-21 Expanding the file system (up to 3 GB) ....................................................... 3-22 Increasing the file system (up to 40 GB) ...................................................... 3-22 ® Troubleshooting for AIX host attachment ......................................................... 3-24 HP-UX configuration and attachment ...................................................... 4-1 Hitachi storage system configuration for HP-UX operations.................................... 4-2 Configuring the new devices ................................................................................ 4-3 Verifying new device recognition ................................................................... 4-4 Verifying device files and the driver ............................................................... 4-7 Creating device files .............................................................................