HP Serviceguard for Linux Version A.11.18 Deployment Guide, August 2008

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4. Create the virtual disk.
a. Click “MANAGE“ in the left-hand pane.
b. Click “VIRTUAL DISK CONFIG” in the left-hand pane.
c. Click “create a vdisk”.
d. Select “Manual Virtual Disk Creation” for the Virtual Disk Creation Method.
e. Enter Virtual Disk Name, for example “edenshare”.
f. Select Virtual Disk RAID level, for example “RAID 1 – Disk Mirroring”.
g. Click “Create New Virtual Disk”.
h. Select drives to add to virtual disk by checking at least 2 green (available) disks.
You may need to select more disks based on the RAID level configured in step f.
i. Skip the “Calculate Virtual Disk Size” option.
j. Would you like to add dedicated spare drives for this virtual disk? Select “No”
(default).
k. Click the “Continue” button to “Add Selected Drives to “edenshare” and Continue
Creating Virtual Disk”.
l. Configure Volumes for Virtual Disk “edenshare”.
i. How Many Volumes? Select “3” from the pull-down menu.
ii. Create Volumes of Equal Size? Click the “No” button.
iii. Expose Volumes to All Hosts? Click the “Yes” button.
iv. Automatically Assign LUNs? Click the “Yes” button.
v. Would You Like to Name Your Volumes? Click the “Yes” button.
vi. Advanced Virtual Disk Creation Options [skip]
vii. Click the “Create Virtual Disk” button.
m. To add volumes to virtual disk “edenshare”, enter the following:
Volume # Volume Size – Mbytes Volume Name
1 100 edenshare_lockLUN
2 200 edenshare_ws
3 300 edenshare_clog
n. Click the “Add Volumes” button.
NOTE: It could take a few hours to initialize the virtual disk depending on the size and RAID
level. By default the virtual disk will be initialized “Online”, so it can be used immediately.
You do not need to wait for the vdisk initialization to complete before moving on to the next
step.
5. Verify the volume mapping.
a. Click “MANAGE“ in the left-hand pane.
b. Click “VOLUME MANAGEMENT” in the left-hand pane.
c. Click “volume mapping” in the left-hand pane.
d. Click “map hosts to volume” in the left-hand pane.
i. Select each volume to view settings. From the “edenshare” Volume Menu,
select each volume (one at a time) to view the “Current Host-Volume
Relationships” to verify “All Hosts” and “rw” access on each port.
e. Click “manage host list” in the left-hand pane.
i. From the “Current Global Host Port List”, verify that the storage device sees
the 4 host connections by the Host WWN and Manufacturer (for example,
Qlogic).
NOTE: If all 4 host connections are not listed, check the cable connections and reboot the
controllers. To reboot the controllers, take the following steps:
a. Click “MANAGE” in the left-hand pane.
b. Click “RESTART SYSTEM” in the left-hand pane.
c. Select “Restart Both RAID Controllers” from the pull-down menu.
d. Click the “Restart” button.