Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for Linux

Operations Required for Devices to Be Managed by HDLM......................3-102
Checking the Volume Group................................................................. 3-103
Setting in the syslogd Settings File........................................................3-105
Setting the Mount Point (in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6).............................................................................................. 3-106
Checking the Partition..........................................................................3-106
Xen Settings........................................................................................3-106
Performing a New Installation of HDLM.......................................................... 3-106
Preparations for an Upgrade Installation or Re-installation of HDLM..................3-111
Operations Required for Devices to Be Managed by HDLM......................3-111
Deactivating the md Devices................................................................ 3-112
Deactivating the Volume Group............................................................ 3-112
Setting Up Xen.................................................................................... 3-112
Performing a Re-installation of HDLM............................................................. 3-113
Performing an Upgrade Installation of HDLM...................................................3-118
Unattended Installation of HDLM....................................................................3-122
Disk Replication OS Installation......................................................................3-127
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (using LABEL for the kernel parameter)... 3-127
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (using UUID for the kernel parameter).... 3-133
Installing HDLM for Managing Boot Disks.............................................................. 3-138
Notes on Installing HDLM in a Boot Disk Environment......................................3-139
Overview of the Procedure for Installing HDLM in a Boot Disk Environment.......3-141
Settings for Using an HDLM Device or a Logical Volume (LVM2) on an HDLM
Device as a Boot Disk.......................................................................... 3-141
Upgrade Installation in an Environment Where an HDLM Device or a logical
volume (LVM2) on a HDLM device Is Used as a Boot Disk.......................3-142
Settings for a Multipath Boot Disk Environment............................................... 3-142
Upgrade installation of HDLM in a Boot Disk Environment................................ 3-151
Countermeasures for Unsuccessful Startup of the OS from an HDLM Device......3-155
When an Error Message Appears and the OS Stops................................3-156
When a Prompt for a Password for Starting Maintenance Appears, and the OS
Stops..................................................................................................3-156
Settings for LUKS................................................................................................ 3-157
Notes on Using LUKS.....................................................................................3-157
Using HDLM in an LUKS Environment............................................................. 3-158
Settings for md Devices....................................................................................... 3-159
Notes on Setting Up md Devices.................................................................... 3-159
Creating an md Device.................................................................................. 3-161
Using HDLM in an md Device Environment......................................................3-163
When the MULTIPATH Function Is Not Being Used for md Devices..........3-163
When the MULTIPATH Function Is Being Used for md Devices................3-167
Settings for LVM2................................................................................................3-171
Notes on Using LVM2.................................................................................... 3-171
When Using an HDLM Device to Create a New Logical Volume......................... 3-172
When Moving a Logical Volume Created on a SCSI Device in a Single-Path
Environment to an HDLM Device.................................................................... 3-177
Settings for Xen.................................................................................................. 3-180
Settings for KVM................................................................................................. 3-182
Settings for Heartbeat......................................................................................... 3-183
Settings for Oracle RAC....................................................................................... 3-183
Settings for the RHCM......................................................................................... 3-186
Notes on Using RHCM................................................................................... 3-186
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Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (for Linux®) User Guide