HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0204, January 2010)

Creating the user defined host (UDH) ............................................................................. 42
Creating VSM virtual disks ............................................................................................ 42
Defining hosts in SVSP .................................................................................................. 42
3 Zoning ........................................................................................... 45
Zoning overview ....................................................................................................................... 45
HP SVSP zoning principles ......................................................................................................... 46
Zoning components in HP SVSP .................................................................................................. 47
Dual-fabric device configuration ................................................................................................. 48
DPM-host zoning ....................................................................................................................... 49
DPM-storage zoning .................................................................................................................. 51
DPM-VSM zoning ..................................................................................................................... 53
VSM-storage zoning .................................................................................................................. 54
VSM-VSM zoning ..................................................................................................................... 55
Cleaning up after zoning changes .............................................................................................. 55
4 Monitoring the SVSP domain ............................................................. 57
Array workload concentration .................................................................................................... 57
Monitoring system performance .................................................................................................. 57
System health monitoring ..................................................................................................... 57
VSM graphical user interface ........................................................................................ 58
VSM event log ............................................................................................................. 60
Alerts automated notification ......................................................................................... 61
Setting up Perfmon ............................................................................................................. 63
Using Perfmon counters to log .............................................................................................. 65
Troubleshooting Perfmon ..................................................................................................... 66
Monitoring access to the VSM setup volume ................................................................................. 66
Description of the VSM setup volume .................................................................................... 66
Using Performance Monitor to review setup volume access times ............................................... 66
Recommendations .............................................................................................................. 69
Monitoring DPM performance .................................................................................................... 69
Monitoring license use ............................................................................................................... 70
Monitoring capacity utilization ................................................................................................... 70
Monitoring event logs ................................................................................................................ 70
Monitoring the SAN .................................................................................................................. 70
5 Installing the VSM command line interface .......................................... 71
Creating the VSM CLI virtual disk ................................................................................................ 71
Install the appropriate VSM CLI package for the host operating system ............................................ 72
6 Removing devices from the domain ..................................................... 73
Deleting or reusing capacity ....................................................................................................... 73
Deleting PiTs, snapshots, pools, and stripe sets ....................................................................... 73
Deleting back-end LUs ......................................................................................................... 74
Deleting front-end virtual disks and hosts ............................................................................... 74
Retiring an array ....................................................................................................................... 74
Deleting hosts ........................................................................................................................... 75
7 Boot from SVSP devices .................................................................... 77
Boot from SAN with AIX ............................................................................................................ 77
Boot from SAN with HP-UX ......................................................................................................... 77
Boot from SAN with Linux .......................................................................................................... 78
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