HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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Host Security Groups on EMC CLARiiON and Sun 6130 Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . 553
Host Security Groups on LSI Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Host Security Groups on EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Host Security Groups on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Host Security Groups on HP MSA Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Host Security Groups on HP EVA Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Host Security Groups on IBM Storage Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Host Security Groups on Sun 6920 and 6940 Storage Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Host Security Groups on Xiotech Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Managing Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Accessing Information About Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Creating Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Editing a Host Security Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Deleting a Host Security Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Setting the Host Mode for IBM Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
General Provisioning Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Provisioning Can Make a Device Inaccessible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Provisioning Does Not Make an Operating System Aware of a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Provisioning Issues by Vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Issues Specific to CLARiiON Storage Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Making the Management Server a Privileged User for CLARiiON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
EMC Navisphere CLI Is Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Issues Specific to EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
About Provisioning on EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Process Has an Exclusive Lock Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Some EMC Volumes, Their LUNs and LUN Maskings Are Hidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Issues Specific to HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
About Provisioning on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Host Security Group Names on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Unable to Provision When HDS CruiseControl Is Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Increasing the Wait Time for the Management Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Initiator Ports Cannot Be Used for Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Mapping Issue on HDS 9900V Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
A Default LUN Number Is Used Instead of a User-Specified One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Issues Specific to HP Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Cannot Always Delete Selected Volume on MSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Selective Storage Presentation must be enabled on MSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Issues Specific to LSI Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Creating and Deleting Storage Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Creating and Deleting Storage Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
16Managing Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
About Backup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Requirements for Using Backup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
Determining if You Have Enough Media to Run a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Accessing Backup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Viewing Sessions that are Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574