HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.0 Windows Storage Server Edition Administration Guide (403103-005, January 2008)
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- HP Technical Support
- Quick Start Checklist
- Introduction to HP Clustered File System
- Cluster Administration
- Administrative Considerations and Restrictions
- Tested Configuration Limits
- Volume and Filesystem Limits
- User Authentication
- Start the Management Console
- Cluster Management Applications
- The HP CFS Management Console
- View Installed Software
- Start HP Clustered File System
- Stop HP Clustered File System
- Back Up and Restore the Cluster Configuration
- HP Clustered File System Network Port Numbers
- Configure Servers
- Configure Network Interfaces
- Configure the SAN
- Configure Dynamic Volumes
- Configure PSFS Filesystems
- Manage Disk Quotas
- Manage Hardware Snapshots
- Configure Security Features
- Configure Event Notifiers and View Events
- Overview
- Install and Configure the Microsoft SNMP Service
- Cluster Event Viewer
- Configure Event Notifier Services
- Select Events for a Notifier Service
- Configure the SNMP Notifier Service
- Configure the Email Notifier Service
- Configure the Script Notifier Service
- View Configurations from the Command Line
- Test Notifier Services
- Enable or Disable a Notifier Service
- Restore Notifier Event Settings to Default Values
- Import or Export the Notifier Event Settings
- Using Custom Notifier Scripts
- Cluster Operations on the Applications Tab
- Configure Virtual Hosts
- Configure Service Monitors
- Configure Device Monitors
- Advanced Monitor Topics
- SAN Maintenance
- Other Cluster Maintenance
- Management Console Icons
- Index
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8 Configure Dynamic Volumes
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Basic and Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Types of Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Dynamic Volume Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Volume Signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Configuration Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Guidelines for Creating Striped Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . 77
Create a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Dynamic Volume Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
View Stripeset Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Extend a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Delete a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Recreate a Dynamic Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Convert a Basic Volume to a Dynamic Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Dynamic Volume Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Deport a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Import a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Unimported Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
9 Configure PSFS Filesystems
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Filesystem Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Server Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Filesystem Management and Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Filesystem Synchronization and Device Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Disk Quotas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Crash Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Differences Between HP Clustered File System and Microsoft
Utilities for Volumes and Filesystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Filesystem Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Create a Filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Create a Filesystem from the Management Console. . . . . . . . . 100
Recreate a Filesystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Create a Filesystem from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Drive Letters and Mount Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Assign Drive Letters or Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
View Drive Letter or Path Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Remove Drive Letter or Path Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
View or Change Filesystem Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112