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

Path Provisioning596
• Changes from executed jobs. After a job is executed in Path Provisioning, the Path
Provisioning screen is not updated until you click Refresh or exit and re-enter Path
Provisioning.
• Adding a volume to an existing host security group on an EMC Symmetrix or DMX array only
performs the masking operation, but it does not map the port on the array. The native tools for
the array show that the masking to the host initiator took place, but the volume is still not
mapped to a storage port.
• Other parts of the product, such as:
• Application Viewer
• Capacity Manager
•Performance Manager
• Backup Manager
• Provisioning Manager
•System Manager
Keep in mind the following:
• Path Provisioning runs within a Java applet. If you receive “out of memory” messages when you
view Path Provisioning, you may need to increase the amount of memory assigned to the Java
plug-in on the client computer.
• If you select a direct-attached host, the storage ports appear in the LUN pane with the icon
next to them, indicating they are unreachable. You can still select these storage ports and
schedule the job. These storage ports are shown as unreachable in the user interface because
the user interface uses switches to display the association between a host and a storage system.
Therefore, if the management server cannot detect a switch, as with a DAS connection, the user
interface assumes the storage ports are unreachable.
• A port designated as an Initiator on a storage system belonging to the HDS Freedom Storage™
Lightning 9900™ Series or Freedom Storage Lightning 9900V Series cannot be used for
provisioning. If you select one of these ports, you receive a message saying that provisioning
failed because the HiCommand Database was not refreshed.
• The HBAs displayed may not have a connection to the selected storage system. This is done to
provide flexibility. For example, you can select a disconnected HBA for a job you want to take
place when the HBA is connected to the storage system.
For McDATA and Connectrix switches:
• When McDATA or Connectrix switches are discovered through a proxy by using SNMP, you
cannot view or perform any provisioning operations for those switches. For example, you cannot
view zone sets, zones, or zone aliases.
• When McDATA or Connectrix switches are discovered by their IP address by using SNMP, you
can only view the active zone set and its members. You cannot create, modify, or delete zone
sets or its members.
• Zone aliases are not supported for McDATA or Connectrix switches.
• You can view zones, zone sets and zone aliases on a Cisco switch; however, you cannot use the
management server to create, modify, or remove them from a Cisco switch.