Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for Windows (7.6)

Automatic Failovers...............................................................................2-17
Automatic Failbacks...............................................................................2-19
Manual Path Switching....................................................................................2-19
Path Status Transition.....................................................................................2-20
The Online Path Statuses.......................................................................2-21
The Offline Path Statuses.......................................................................2-22
Status Transitions of a Path....................................................................2-22
Monitoring Intermittent Errors (Functionality When Automatic Failback Is Used)........2-26
Checking Intermittent Errors............................................................................2-26
Setting Up Intermittent Error Monitoring...........................................................2-26
Intermittent Error Monitoring Actions...............................................................2-27
When an Intermittent Error Occurs.........................................................2-27
When an Intermittent Error Does Not Occur............................................2-28
When the Conditions for an Intermittent Error Are Changed During Error
Monitoring............................................................................................2-28
When a User Changes the Intermittent Error Information..................................2-29
Detecting Errors by Using Path Health Checking......................................................2-31
Distributing a Load by Using the Dynamic I/O Path Control Function.........................2-32
What is the Dynamic Load Balance Control Function..........................................2-32
Dynamic I/O Path Control Function..................................................................2-32
Dynamic Re-configuration......................................................................................2-33
Adding an LU Dynamically...............................................................................2-33
Deleting an LU Dynamically.............................................................................2-33
Error Management................................................................................................2-33
Types of Collected Logs...................................................................................2-34
Filtering of Error Information...........................................................................2-36
Collecting Error Information Using the Utility for Collecting HDLM Error Information
(DLMgetras)...................................................................................................2-37
Collecting Audit Log Data.......................................................................................2-37
Categories and Audit Events that HDLM Can Output to the Audit Log.................2-39
Requirements for Outputting Audit Log Data.....................................................2-43
Destination and Filtering of Audit Log Data.......................................................2-43
Audit Log Data Formats...................................................................................2-44
Integrated HDLM management using Global Link Manager.......................................2-45
Cluster Support.....................................................................................................2-46
3 Creating an HDLM Environment.............................................................3-1
HDLM System Requirements....................................................................................3-2
OSs Supported by HDLM...................................................................................3-2
Supported OSs........................................................................................3-2
Microsoft MPIO Drivers............................................................................3-3
Web Browsers Supported by HDLM..........................................................3-3
Storage systems Supported by HDLM.................................................................3-3
Supported Storage systems......................................................................3-3
HBAs......................................................................................................3-6
When Using Intermediate Volumes Managed by Hitachi RapidXchange to
Exchange Data........................................................................................3-6
Cluster Software Supported by HDLM.................................................................3-6
Volume Managers Supported by HDLM.............................................................3-12
Virtual Environments Supported by HDLM.........................................................3-12
Memory and Disk Capacity Requirements.........................................................3-12
Memory Requirements...........................................................................3-12
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