HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager User Guide (December 2005)

Working With OS-Based Constraints 59
If the Provisioning Manager support functionality for the Device Manager agent is not installed, the values
for some items may not be displayed.
• VERITAS™ File System and VERITAS™ Volume Manager
To install VERITAS™ File System and VERITAS™ Volume Manager on the same host, use the same
version. If their versions are different, operations cannot be guaranteed.
• About unsupported volumes
Provisioning Manager cannot use any of the following volumes for addition, expansion, or deletion of file
systems or device files:
• Volumes that use extensible firmware interface (EFI) disk labels
• Volumes with no slice 2 that indicates the entire disk
For these volumes, use OS commands to manually specify settings, if necessary.
4-3-2 Notes on Adding File Systems
In the following case, the file system is not added:
• The specified mount point is already in use by another file system
Volumes that satisfy one of the following conditions cannot be used for file system addition:
• The volume manager is using a volume on a host where the Device Manager agent has been installed
• The volume is mounted on a host where the Device Manager agent has been installed
• The volume is being used as a command device
• The volume is being used as an S-VOL for Continuous Access XP
• The volume is being used as an S-VOL or SP-VOL for Business Copy XP
• The volume is being used as a V-VOL or POOL for Snapshot XP
• The volume is being used as an on-demand device
• The Read/Write permissions have not been set in the LUN Security XP Extension function
• The Auto Lun XP attribute has been set
• The volume emulation type is not one of the following: OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-K, OPEN-E,
OPEN-L, OPEN-M, OPEN-V
• The volume size is less than 512 MB
• Dynamic Link Manager does not exist on the host, and multiple paths are assigned to the volume
• The volume is being used as a Differential Management LU
In any of the following environments, the file system cannot be added:
• The type of volume manager used in the applicable file system is neither VERITAS™ Volume Manager
3.5 nor VERITAS™ Volume Manager 4.0
• The file system in use at the host is neither UFS, nor VERITAS™ File System 3.5, nor VERITAS™ File
System 4.0
4-3-3 Restrictions on Expansion and Deletion
Limits on expanding and deleting a logical volume
Provisioning Manager cannot expand or delete a volume group whose target volume group is other than
VERITAS™ Volume Manager.
Notes on expanding a file system
Provisioning Manager cannot expand the following file system a file system whose type is other than
VERITAS™ File System.
Volumes to which one of the following conditions apply cannot be used for file system expansion:
• The volume manager is using a volume on a host where the Device Manager agent has been installed
• The volume is mounted on a host where the Device Manager agent has been installed
• The volume is being used as a command device
• The volume is being used as an S-VOL for Continuous Access XP
• The volume is being used as an S-VOL or SP-VOL for Business Copy XP
• The volume is being used as a V-VOL or POOL for Snapshot XP
• The volume is being used as an on-demand device