SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem (G06.28+, H06.05+, J06.03+)

New and Changed Information in the August 2011 Edition
The following information was added or changed in this edition of the manual:
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Chapter 5: “Displaying Information
About Disk Drives” (page 48)
• Added paragraph to the beginning of this chapter:
Effective with the H06.23/J06.12 RVU, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are
supported in addition to Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). SSDs are configured
and displayed in the same manner as HDDs.
• Added new section, “Displaying Information about Partitioned Disks”
(page 56).
Chapter 6: “Configuring Disks”
(page 70)
• Added an entry for CLIM-Attached Disks, such as SAS disks which include
HDDs and SSDs, to “Types of Disks” (page 70).
• Updated information under “Considerations for M8xxx Fibre Channel
Disks” (page 71).
• Added a new section, “Considerations for CLIM-Attached Disks”
(page 72).
• Added a new section, “Mirroring With CLIM-Attached Disks” (page 77).
• Under “Considerations for ALTER DISK, MIRRORLOCATION and Online
Disk Remirroring” (page 80), stated that you can use the NOSTART
attribute with the ALTER DISK command to specify that the configured
mirror disk should not be started.
• Added notes to the steps under “Example of Online Disk Remirroring”
(page 81).
• Under “ADD DISK Examples for Different Disk Types” (page 83), added
an example for the set of commands for CLIM-attached disks.
• Under “Adding a Disk” (page 82), changed subtitle to “Steps to Add a
Disk” (page 82).
• Under “Considerations for ALTER DISK and Disks” (page 85), added new
attributes that require the disk to be stopped.
• Added new section, “Partitioning HDDs and SSDs” (page 92).
• Made changes to “Write Caching” (page 94) and “Considerations for
WRITECACHE” (page 94) to clarify and stress importance of having an
HP rack mount UPS to protect data during power interruptions and to
indicate writecache considerations for partitioned disks.
Chapter 7: “Managing Disks” (page 96)
• Added information about how to handle SSDs in event of power failures
under “Handling Power Failures” (page 117), “Hard Disk Drives (HDDs)
and Solid State Drives (SSDs)” (page 117).
• Added a new section, “Storage CLIMs” (page 117) that describes how
storage CLIMs can be configured to handle power failures.
• Changed the wording of encryption operation to encryption key rotation
under “Changing the Speed of Encryption Key Rotation” (page 117).
• Added an example of the INFO DETAIL report with the BUFFERING
attribute to
“Examples of INFO TAPE Detailed Reports” (page 181).
Chapter 13: “Configuring and
Managing Tape Drives” (page 179)
Chapter 14: “Storage Subsystem
Commands” (page 190)
• Added these disk partitioning commands for SAS disks:
“ADD PARTITION Command” (page 216)
“DELETE PARTITION Command” (page 250)
“INFO PARTITION Command” (page 256)
• Modified these commands to include information about disk partitions on
SAS disks. Changed examples, where appropriate:
“ADD DISK Command” (page 194)
“ALTER DISK Command” (page 228)
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