Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for Linux

Installing a new version of HDLM without removing the existing old
version is called an upgrade installation of HDLM.
Re-installation of HDLM:
Installing the same version of HDLM, to restore the existing version,
without first removing that version is called a re-installation of HDLM.
Knowledge Required Before You Install HDLM
• You can install HDLM on the following disks or devices:
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An internal disk on a host machine
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LUs of storage systems that are used as a boot disk
For details about the storage systems on which HDLM can be
installed, see the following sections related to your OS and its version:
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Boot Disk Environments and Hitachi Compute Blade Environments
Supported by HDLM on page 3-40 in Related Products When Using
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4/ES4 on page 3-20
• Boot Disk Environments and Hitachi Compute Blade Environments
Supported by HDLM (If an FC-SAN Is Used) on page 3-60 in
Related Products When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on page
3-44
• Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM on page 3-68 in
Related Products When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on page
3-63
• Boot Disk Environments and Hitachi Compute Blade Environments
Supported by HDLM on page 3-73 in Related Products When Using
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 on page 3-70
• Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM (If an FC-SAN Is
Used) on page 3-78 in Related Products When Using SUSE LINUX
Enterprise Server 11 on page 3-76
• Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM on page 3-80 in
Related Products When Using Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 on page
3-79
• Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM on page 3-83 in
Related Products When Using Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 on page
3-80
• Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM on page 3-85 in
Related Products When Using Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel 5 on page 3-84
• Related Products When Using Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel 6 on page 3-86 in Boot Disk Environments Supported by
HDLM on page 3-87
• HDLM outputs the log information for analyzing errors at the time of
installation to a file. The file name, which is the output destination,
is /var/tmp/hdlminstlog/installhdlm[01-10].log, and the maximum
number of files that can be created is 10. If 10 files already exist and you
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Creating an HDLM Environment
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (for Linux®) User Guide