HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Manager user guide (AG781-96017, March 2009)

• Displaces some data to the backup space and writes a VSM signature to the back-end LU.
• Configures the imported back-end LU as a member of the same specified storage pool.
• Imports the data to a new, fully manageable, standard VSM virtual disk with a specified name.
Use the host’s operating system with VSM for a complete import procedure, including all the tasks
you need to perform on the host side. The complete procedure includes unmounting the host that is
using the back-end LU, running Import-in-Place on the back-end LU, and mounting the resulting virtual
disk on the host.
If the host is using multiple back-end LUs as a concatenated entity, such as an HP-UX virtual disk group,
you need to import each back-end LU separately to a VSM virtual disk, and then reconstruct the entity
on the host operating system from the VSM virtual disks. See an OS user manual for using the hosts’s
operating system with VSM for information.
For information about reversing a back-end LU import, see
“Reversing Import-in-Place (performing Export-in-Place)” on page 65. Reversing an import is an
export-in-place.
To import a back-end LU’s data to a virtual disk:
1. Right-click the back-end LU that you want to import.
2. Select Manage > Import-in-Place. The Import-in-Place wizard opens to the Enter parameters screen.
3. In the Virtual Disk name field, enter a name for the new virtual disk that will be created to hold
the imported data.
4. In the Comment field, enter any text you want.
5. Click Next. The Select Storage Pool screen appears. displaying the list of available storage pools.
Figure 7 Import-in-Place wizard—Select Storage Pool screen
6. If you like to select a storage pool from a folder, navigate to the folder in the tree on the left of
the screen. The Select Storage Pool screen displays the list of storage pools in the selected folder.
7. Select the storage pool to which you want to import the back-end LU.
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