HP Matrix Operating Environment Automated Storage Provisioning: "Static"SAN volume automation via multi-initiator NPIV

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Insight Orchestration – Storage Automation via NPIV

Figure 11: Building the storage pool with shared data disks

1. As in the previous use case, the process starts with the Server administrator communicating

the storage requirements for the servers that he wishes to provision with HPIO. As a part of

this, the Server administrator will consider the different types of storage:

a. Boot Disks - how many?, what size or sizes?, RAID level?, what OS type will be

deployed (i.e. Windows, Linux, …), do they need to be HA protected within the

SAN?, do they need backup services?, are there specific I/O requirements or what

kind of applications will be running on a server that has access to the disk?, …

b. Private Data Disks - same question as above

c. Shared Data Disks - same question as above and, what level of sharing is required

(i.e. how many other servers in the environment will require access to the same set of

shared data disks).

2. The Server administrator communicates the output of this planning process to the SAN

administrator, most likely in the form of an email or a spreadsheet. This communication may

also be part of an existing work ticketing process between the different groups that administer

the resources in the data center for various business units.

a. In this example, the Server Administrator is requesting three different disk “types”.

i. Two 10GB boot disks

ii. One 20 GB private data disk

iii. One 20 GB shared data disk with a sharing limit of 3 (represented by the

HBA WWNs of ‘wwnr4’, ‘wwnr5’, and ‘wwnr6’

3. The SAN administrator receives the request from the Server administrator. Using this

information and his own tools and processes, the SAN administrator creates and presents

each of the disks requested to the SAN.

Server

Admin

Array

Lun1 10GB

Lun2 10GB

Lun3 20GB

Lun4 20GB

VC-FC

Blade

Fc-hba

Free VC

Domain

WWNs

Storage

Admin

Present

LUNs to floating

server side

WWNs

wwnr1

wwnr4

wwnr5

wwnr6

Storage

Mgmt

HPIO, LSM

VCEM

wwnr2

Email: Storage Pool request

wwnr3