Operating Environment Software Manual

Logical server storage
Insight Dynamics allows you to logically represent your storage environment in a logical server
storage configuration. A logical server completely defines your storage, including all Fibre
Channel ports, fabrics, server WWNs, storage WWNs, volumes, and LUNs.
For server with Virtual Connect logical server storage, HP recommends Fibre Channel Storage
Area Network (SAN) with boot-from-SAN capability.
• Insight Dynamics supports any Fibre Channel storage solution, which supports the Virtual
Connect environment, N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), and boot-from-SAN capability (boot
volume as a pre-presented LUN).
• Insight Dynamics also supports Raw Device Mapping (RDM) for cross-technology logical
server operations.
To realize the benefits of Virtual Connect logical servers, including the ability to move logical
servers and to easily repurpose server blades associated with inactive logical servers, you must
remove or disable any local disks.
For virtual machine logical servers, Insight Dynamics supports VMware and Hyper-V virtual
machines whose boot and data storage are files within the hypervisor file system. That file system
can be on local disk, FC SAN, HP StorageWorks SVSP, and iSCSI.
• For iSCSI SAN storage solutions, HP recommends the HP StorageWorks P4300 G2 and P4500
G2.
• For VMware environments, Insight Dynamics also supports hypervisor file systems on NAS
and virtual machines using RDM to access a FC LUN directly. RDM is a key enabler to allow
a logical server to move from a physical environment to a virtual one while still accessing
the same boot and data volumes.
• For Integrity Virtual Machine environments, Insight Dynamics supports the use of SLVM
(Shared Logical Volume Manager) volumes or physical FC disks.
Storage types
Physical (server with Virtual Connect and Operations Orchestration workflow) logical servers
use storage provisioned from the SAN. Virtual machine logical servers use storage from the file
system of the VM Host.
Logical server storage types are:
SAN Storage Pool Entry
Requires that you manually enter the storage port WWN
and LUN identifier corresponding to the server WWN for
each storage volume.
SAN Catalog Storage Entry (Server
with Virtual Connect logical servers
only)
Allows you to select storage that was preconfigured in HP
Storage Provisioning Manager. Dynamically presents
volumes to user specified server WWNs.
SAN Pre-populated Catalog
Storage Pool Entry (Server with
Virtual Connect logical servers only)
Allows you to select storage that was preconfigured in HP
Storage Provisioning Manager. All volumes are already
presented to WWNs, and the WWNs are displayed with
the volumes. Add a volume, select a candidate for the
volume and a storage port WWN, and the rest of the
information is filled in automatically.
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