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IBM DS3500 Introduction And Implementation Manual

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Draft Document for Review March 28, 2011 12:24 pm

SG24-7914-00

ibm.com/redbooks

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IBM System Storage

DS3500: Introduction and

Implementation Guide

Sangam Racherla

Reza Fanaei Aghdam

Hartmut Lonzer

L G (Len) O’Neill

Mario Rodriguez

Vaclav Sindelar

Alexander Watson

Sample configurations with step by

step instructions

Configuration and administration

with Storage Manager

Toubleshooting and

Maintenance

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Draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sg24-7914-00 ibm.Com/redbooks front cover ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide sangam racherla reza fanaei aghdam hartmut lonzer l g (len) o’neill mario rodriguez vaclav sindelar alexander watson sample configurations with...
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International technical support organization ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide september 2010 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914edno.Fm sg24-7914-00
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© copyright international business machines corporation 2010. All rights reserved. Note to u.S. Government users restricted rights -- use, duplication or disclosure restricted by gsa adp schedule contract with ibm corp. 7914edno.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm first edition (sep...
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Iii draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914edno.Fm.
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Iv ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7914edno.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. V draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914toc.Fm contents notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xv trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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7914toc.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vi ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3.4.1 flashcopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 3.4.2 volumecopy . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Contents vii draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914toc.Fm 4.8.3 direct attached fibre channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 4.8.4 san fabric-attached ds3500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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7914toc.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm viii ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 8.2.6 controller menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 8.2.7 drive menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Contents ix draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914toc.Fm 10.7.2 configure ethernet management ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 10.8 configure iscsi ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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7914toc.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm x ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.2.3 collect drive data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 14.3 view storage subsystem profile . . . . . . ...
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Contents xi draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914toc.Fm 15.3.2 secure key creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 15.3.3 enable disk security on array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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7914toc.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xii ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 18.2.1 installing windows server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555 18.2.2 hs21 sas expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Contents xiii draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914toc.Fm 21.3 setting up the ds3500 logical drives and host mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 21.4 scan and manage the storage logical drive from aix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 21.4.1 ways...
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7914toc.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xiv ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. Xv draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914spec.Fm notices this information was developed for products and services offered in the u.S.A. Ibm may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries...
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7914spec.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xvi ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide trademarks ibm, the ibm logo, and ibm.Com are trademarks or registered trademarks of international business machines corporation in the united states, other countries, o...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. Xvii draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914pref.Fm preface this ibm® redbooks® publication introduces the ibm system storage® ds3500, providing an overview of its design and specifications, and describing in detail how to set up, confi...
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7914pref.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xviii ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide sangam racherla is an it specialist and project leader working at the international technical support organization (itso), san jose center. He holds a degree in electr...
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Preface xix draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914pref.Fm mario rodriguez is an it specialist in ibm uruguay since 2001. He holds mcse, aix, lpi and other comptia certifications. His areas of expertise include san switches (brocade, cisco mds), san storage (ds3000, ds4000, ds6000™, a...
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7914pref.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xx ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide donald brennan ibm david worley stacey dershem jamal boudi lsi corporation brian steffler yong choi alan hicks brocade communications systems, inc. Now you can become a p...
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Preface xxi draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914pref.Fm http://twitter.Com/ibmredbooks look for us on linkedin: http://www.Linkedin.Com/groups?Home=&gid=2130806 explore new redbooks publications, residencies, and workshops with the ibm redbooks weekly newsletter: https://www.Redboo...
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7914pref.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm xxii ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 1 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm chapter 1. Disk attachment technology in this chapter, we describe basic disk attachment methods in the context of the ibm system storage ds3500. We discuss the following techno...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 2 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 1.1 fibre channel disk attachment fibre channel (fc) is a high-speed disk attachment technology primarily used for storage networking. It is designed to connect ...
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Chapter 1. Disk attachment technology 3 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm all devices or loops of devices are connected to fibre channel switches, similar conceptually to modern ethernet implementations. Advantages of this topology over fc-p2p or fc-al include: ...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 4 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the name multi-mode fiber indicates that multiple modes, or rays of light, can travel through the cable core simultaneously. The multi-mode fiber cable uses a la...
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Chapter 1. Disk attachment technology 5 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm 1550 nm [40 km (xd) 80 km (zx) 120 km (ex or ezx)], and dwdm. Sfp transceivers are also available with a copper cable interface, allowing a host device designed primarily for optical fiber...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 6 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide a sas domain, an i/o system, consists of a set of sas devices that communicate with one another by means of a service delivery subsystem. Each sas device in a sa...
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Chapter 1. Disk attachment technology 7 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm sas wide ports each sas port includes four full duplex links or lanes within a single connector , as shown in figure 1-4, with each lane running a speed of 6 gbps. A single lane is used as...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 8 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 1-5 point to point sas topology 1.3 iscsi disk attachment iscsi stands for internet small computer system interface, an internet protocol (ip)-based stora...
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Chapter 1. Disk attachment technology 9 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm 1.3.1 iscsi initiators and targets iscsi uses the concept of initiators and targets, as shown in figure 1-6. Figure 1-6 iscsi components the protocol allows clients (called initiators) to ...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 10 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide hardware initiator a hardware initiator uses dedicated hardware, typically in combination with software (firmware) running on that hardware, to implement iscsi....
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Chapter 1. Disk attachment technology 11 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914diskattach0908.Fm the format of a nasa is naa plus nasa 64 or 128 bit identifier. For example: naa.52004567ba64678d iscsi addressing usually an iscsi participant can be defined by three or four fields: 1. ...
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7914diskattach0908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 12 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide service location protocol (slp) the service location protocol can be used to locate iscsi target devices. Slp operates with three agents: user agent (ua): works...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 13 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 in this chapter, we introduce the new ibm system storage ds3500 storage subsystem offerings and functionality. These p...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 14 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2.1 ibm system storage portfolio ibm has brought together into one family, known as the ds family, a broad range of disk systems to help small to large siz...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 15 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm support for greater capacity with new larger capacity sas drive offerings. Figure 2-2 and figure 2-3 show the front view of both chassis models of these subsystems. Fi...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 16 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in dual controller configurations, the controller on the left is a and the right is b, when viewed from the rear of the subsystem. Dual controller configur...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 17 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm figure 2-6 example host interface daughter card module both the single and the dual controller models of the ds3500 storage servers can be upgraded to include an optio...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 18 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 2-9 controller module with optional fc host interface daughter card disk drives the most important difference between the ds3512 and the ds3524 prod...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 19 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm expansions can be optionally upgraded with a second esm module for redundant paths. Each esm has a 6gbps sas connection providing 600mb/sec throughput. Figure 2-10 sho...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 20 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 2-11 exp35xx expansion cascaded loop 2.4 premium features standard configurations of ds3500 storage subsystems come with the following premium featu...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 21 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm source for a backup operation. They can also be used to simply and quickly roll back to an original data state, thus providing a restore point. However, if the source ...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 22 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide this capability is shared across the ds3500 and ds3950 and the ds5000 midrange products which allows for the remote location to be a consolidated collectio...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 23 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm 2.6 ibm system storage ds storage manager the new ds3500 and ds3950 storage subsystem uses the same storage manager as the ds5000 product line and the legacy ds3000 mo...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 24 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in-band management the in-band management method uses the i/o path between the host server and the ds3500 to transfer management commands and information. ...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 25 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm access logical drive the access logical drive exists in each storage partition by default (no manual configuration is required). This is not actually a real logical dr...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 26 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide out-of-band management offers the following advantages: there is no need for an access logical drive (unlike for in-band management). Therefore, you can us...
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Chapter 2. Introduction to ibm system storage ds3500 27 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm subsystem management window this window allows you to manage a particular ds3500 storage subsystem. Management tasks such as creating arrays, logical drives, storage p...
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7914ds3kintro_081410alw.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 28 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide storage manager agent (smagent) smagent is an optional component that is only required for in-band management. Smagent is installed in the host server and ...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 29 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks careful planning is essential to any new storage installation. This chapter provides guidelines to help ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 30 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3.1 planning your san and storage server when planning the setup of a storage area network (san), you want the solution to answer your current requirements...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 31 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm – ensure that your existing network of sas, ethernet or fibre channel switches and cables are properly configured. 3. Produce a software checklist to cov...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 32 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide zoning with mpio mpio is a multipath driver which provides for a host to be able to recognize multiple paths to the attached storage device. This is done b...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 33 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm second zone from hba port 2 of the host to controller a and controller b through port 2 of the controllers. With this configuration if a single path has ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 34 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide create a floor plan to check for clearance problems. Be sure to include the following considerations in the layout plan: determine service clearances requi...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 35 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm (1.75 in.). The u levels are marked on labels on one front mounting rail and one rear mounting rail. Figure 3-2 shows an example of the required service ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 36 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-3 sas cable careful planning should be done to avoid damage to the sas cables, consider the following precautions: when you route the cable along ...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 37 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm figure 3-4 ds3500 with optional added sas host connections 3.2.3 ethernet cable and connections each ds3500 raid controller contains an ethernet manageme...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 38 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-5 four host servers attached to a ds3500 subsystem with iscsi 3.2.4 fiber channel cables and connectors in this section, we discuss various essent...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 39 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm there are two core sizes of multi-mode cabling available: 50 micron and 62.5 micron. The intermixing of the two core sizes can produce unpredictable and ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 40 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-6 small form pluggable (sfp) with lc connector fiber cable obviously, the particular connectors used to connect a fiber cable to a component will ...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 41 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm the same rules apply to 8 gbps devices relative to 4 gbps and 2 gbps environments. The 8 gbps devices have the ability to automatically negotiate back do...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 42 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide switch-attached ds3500 as the ds3500 subsystem can support many more than two host servers, let us consider a larger configuration. For more than two serve...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 43 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm cable planning successful cable management planning includes three basic activities: site planning (before your solution is installed), cable routing, an...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 44 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide – for long cable runs, ensure that enough slack is made for rack movement in accordance with your computer room standards for earthquake proofing. Addition...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 45 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm it is always a best practice to distribute high-speed adapters across several buses. When you use pci adapters, make sure that you first review your syst...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 46 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide queue depth there are a number of locations in the san solution that can have queue depth settings within their control. The queue depth is the maximum num...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 47 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm figure 3-12 ds3500 and multiple exp3500 cable attachments for dual controllers in looking at figure 3-12 it is important to notice the direction of the c...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 48 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide setting through the ds3500 storage management software only. There are no switches on the exp3500 or exp810 chassis to manually set the enclosure id. Figur...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 49 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm 3.3.1 selecting drives the speed and the type of the drives used will impact the performance. Typically, the faster the drive, the higher the performance...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 50 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide these drives can push very high throughput numbers with large host io blocksizes and sequential workloads. 3.3.2 understanding raid types in this section w...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 51 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm figure 3-14 raid 0 raid 1 and raid 10: disk mirroring and disk mirroring with striping raid 1 is also known as disk mirroring and is a mirrored pair of d...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 52 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-15 raid 10. A raid 1 array will only consist of one mirrored pair (#1 mirrorset) we recommend these best practises for using raid 1/10 arrays: use...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 53 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm raid 3: data striping with a dedicated parity drive a raid 3 array uses data striping with a dedicated parity drive. Similar to raid 0 data striping, inf...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 54 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide as well on raid 5 logical drives because parity data must be recalculated for each write operation and then written to each drive in the array. Use write c...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 55 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm all write io's are full stripe writes (no partial stripe writes can be requested) write io's are and sequential and contiguous in nature so no seeks are ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 56 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide it has additional costs because of the extra disk capacity required by using two parity blocks per stripe: compared to a raid 5 array, additional drives ar...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 57 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm raid levels reliability considerations at first glance, both raid 3 and raid 5 appear to provide good protection against drive failure. With today’s high...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 58 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the array configuration is crucial to performance. You must take into account all the logical drives inside the array, because all logical drives inside th...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 59 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm large throughput workload in the large throughput environment, it typically does not take high numbers of disks to reach the maximum sustained throughput...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 60 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-19 hot spare coverage with alternating loops planning for hot spares even though disk drives are becoming increasingly more reliable, disk failure...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 61 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm when defining hot spare drives, you need to consider the following rules: hot spares must be of the same drive type (sas or sas nearline). Hot spares mus...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 62 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-20 example of enclosure loss protection in the example shown in figure 3-21, if enclosure number 1 fails, the entire array becomes inaccessible. F...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 63 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm 3.3.6 logical drives and controller ownership logical drives, sometimes simply referred to as logical volumes or logical unit numbers (luns), are the log...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 64 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide needs. It enables you to connect multiple and heterogeneous host systems to the same storage server, either in stand-alone or clustered mode. The term stor...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 65 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm the ds3500 storage system only communicates through the use of the wwn. The storage system is not aware of which host bus adapters are in the same server...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 66 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide storage partitioning considerations by default an “access” logical drive is created mapped to each partition created. If in-band management is being used, ...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 67 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm heterogeneous hosts when implementing a ds3500 storage system solution, a mixture of host servers with various operating systems can be supported, and bo...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 68 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide with high throughput workload, the focus is on moving larger but fewer i/os. This workload is generally sequential in nature. The total of all the segments...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 69 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm scan completes within the time setting allocated. After the media scan has completed, it will start over again and reset its time for completion to the c...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 70 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in mixed workload environments, you must decide which workload type is most critical and set the system wide settings to best handle your business needs. C...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 71 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm some points that may play an important part with premium features and should be considered are the following: which premium features will you need what a...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 72 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide operating modes for erm enhanced remote mirroring (formerly named “remote volume mirroring”) offers three operating modes: metro mirroring: metro mirroring...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 73 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm 3.4.4 drive security this is a new premium feature where full disk encryption (fde) protects the data on the disks only when the drives are removed from ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 74 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3.5.1 planning for systems with lvm: aix example many modern operating systems implement the concept of a logical volume manager (lvm) that can be used to ...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 75 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm figure 3-22 illustrates the layout of those components in the case of the aix logical volume manager. Figure 3-22 aix logical volume manager hierarchy of...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 76 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 3-23 relationships between lp and pp the logical volume manager controls disk resources by mapping data between a simple and flexible logical view o...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 77 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm because a ds3500 storage system has its own raid arrays and logical volumes, we do not work with real physical disks in the system. Functions, such as in...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 78 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide with the ds3500 storage system, you can use either basic or dynamic disks, depending upon your needs and requirements (certain features might not be suppor...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 79 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm – mirrored and raid 5 options are software implementations that have an additional impact on top of the existing underlying fault tolerance level configu...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 80 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3.6 host support and multipathing our intent in this section is to list the most popular supported operating system platforms and topologies. For a complet...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 81 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm requests from the logical drive. If a problem along the data path (such as a component failure) causes an i/o to fail, the multipath driver issues the i/...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 82 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the mpio driver performs the following tasks: detects and claims the physical disk devices presented by the ds3500 storage systems based on vendor/product ...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 83 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm 3.6.8 hp-ux ibm subsystem device driver ibm now offers a subsystem device driver (sdd) for hp-ux. The sdd is only supported through rpq and provides the ...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 84 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide rdac implementation rdac is implemented between the hba driver and the operating system disk driver, operating as a low-level filter driver. It has the fol...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 85 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm controller are transferred to the alternate controller, which is the configuration setting for microsoft windows, ibm aix, and linux (when using the rdac...
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7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 86 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide adt-enabled failover: the multi-path driver starts using the alternate path by sending the i/o down the path it chooses and lets the adt react, which is th...
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Chapter 3. Ibm system storage ds3500 storage system planning tasks 87 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ds3kplanning_090710.Fm 3.7.1 maximum capacity for a logical drive table 3-7 shows the maximum capacity a logical drive can have and be formatted with a specific file system. Ta...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 89 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling in this chapter we describe the best practise guidelines for the cabling of the ds3500 storage subsystem and the exp3500...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 90 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4.1 ds3500 controller connectors in this section we describe the various connectors that are located on the rear panel of each of the four ds3500 controller mode...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 91 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm sas host ports labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 are sas 2.0 ports for host-side connections. Sas ports 3 and 4 are located on the optional sas host port adapter. Each ds3500 host por...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 92 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-5 shows the port layout on the rear of an exp3500 enclosure with two esms installed. Figure 4-5 the rear panel of an exp3500 enclosure with dual esms in...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 93 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-6 the 7 segment numeric led displaying the enclosure id, in this example it is displaying “43” these enclosure id values are important because the unique hardwa...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 94 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide follow these precautions to avoid damage to the sas cables: when you route the cable along a folding cable-management arm, leave enough slack in the cable. Route...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 95 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm 4.4 fibre channel cabling in this section we describe the features of fibre channel cabling that you use to connect the ds3500 controllers to hosts with fibre-channel ho...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 96 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide you can insert or remove the sfp module while the port is powered-on. The operational or redundant loop performance is not affected when you install or remove an...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 97 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-12 installing an sfp module into the host port 5. Connect an lc-lc fibre channel cable. Removing sfp modules to remove the sfp module from the host port, comple...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 98 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-14 unlocking the sfp module latch - wire variety 3. With the sfp module latch in the unlocked position, remove the sfp module. – for sfp modules that co...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 99 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm general guidelines when using fibre channel cables you should always follow these general guidelines when using fibre channel cables: do not route the cable along a fold...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 100 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide you must use either a category 5e or a category 6 ethernet cable when you are connecting a ds3500 controller iscsi host port to a gigabit ethernet switch, and t...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 101 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm component in the drive channel fails, the ds3500 controllers can still access the exp3500 expansion enclosures in the redundant drive-channel pair. 4.6.2 drive channel ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 102 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4.6.3 single controller ds3500 with one or more exp3500 enclosures figure 4-16 shows the sas connections between a single controller ds3500 subsystem and three ...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 103 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-17 ds3500 storage subsystem (top) with one exp3500 attached (bottom) follow this sequence of steps to connect a single exp3500 with two esms installed to a ds3...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 104 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-18 the top-down/bottom-up sas drive-side connections.
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 105 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm you should follow the sequence of steps below to connect ds3500 controllers a and b to multiple exp3500 expansion enclosures that each have two esms installed: 1. Conne...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 106 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. Connect the power cables to the new expansion enclosure and power-on the expansion enclosure. 3. Connect one end of a serial attached scsi (sas) cable to the...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 107 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm 4.6.7 sas drive channel miswires if the sas cabling on the drive side is incorrect, it will be detected by the ds3500 controller firmware. The storage manager applicati...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 108 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4.7.1 out-of-band management out-of-band management uses a network connection to the tcp/ip ethernet ports on the rear panels of each ds3500 controller (see fig...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 109 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm the controllers. The maximum number of logical drives that are supported by the host operating system can be configured and used. The storage system can be managed when...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 110 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide advantages and disadvantages of in-band management in this section we discuss the advantages and disadvantage of using the in-band management method. Using in-b...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 111 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-21 an example of a multi-host, multi-port and multi-fabric host configuration before you attach hosts to the storage subsystem, you should always ensure that t...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 112 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-22 a single host with one sas connection to the ds3500 figure 4-23 on page 113 shows a single host with two host adapters connected to a single control...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 113 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-23 single host with two sas connections to a ds3500 storage subsystem figure 4-24 on page 114 shows a host server with two sas host bus adapters connecting to ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 114 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-24 host attachment with two sas host bus adapters and dual ds3500 controllers figure 4-25 on page 115 show two host servers, each with one sas host ada...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 115 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-25 two hosts connected to a single controller ds3500 using single sas host adapters figure 4-26 on page 116 shows a configuration with two hosts connected usin...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 116 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-26 two hosts with redundant sas connections to a dual controller ds3500 4.8.2 iscsi attachment the ds3500 supports iscsi san, which utilizes the standa...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 117 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm iscsi host attachment examples here we show some examples of the iscsi host attachment figure 4-27 shows the simplest iscsi host connection with one host connecting to ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 118 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-28 single host with redundant iscsi connections to a single controller ds3500 figure 4-29 on page 119 shows a configuration with redundant iscsi connec...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 119 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-29 single host with redundant iscsi connections to a dual controller ds3500 figure 4-30 on page 120 shows a configuration with two hosts connecting to a dual c...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 120 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-30 two hosts with redundant iscsi host connections to a dual controller ds3500 4.8.3 direct attached fibre channel the ds3500 storage subsystem support...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 121 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-31 single direct-attached host server figure 4-32 on page 122 shows a single host server with two host bus adapters and redundant paths to a single controller ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 122 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-32 direct attached host with redundant paths although the sample configuration shown in figure 4-32 has redundant paths to the single controller, the c...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 123 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-33 direct attached host with redundant host connections and controllers figure 4-34 on page 124 is an example of a configuration with two direct-attached host ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 124 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-34 two host serves with non-redundant fibre channel connections the sample configuration shown in figure 4-35 on page 125 has two direct-attached host ...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 125 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-35 two hosts with redundant connections to a dual controller ds3500 if you need to connect more than four fibre channel hosts to a ds3500 storage subsystem usi...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 126 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide cases, increased redundancy. Fibre channel switches vary from simple edge switches to enterprise-scalable core switches or fibre channel directors. A switch ena...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 127 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm because different applications and host operating systems can require different san zoning configurations, the specific san zoning requirements for each host operating ...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 128 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide when configuring world wide name (wwn) based zoning, it is important to always use the world wide port name (wwpn), not the world wide node name (wwnn). With ma...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 129 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm single switch with a one-to-one zoning configuration for the same effective connections, but best practise is to use two switches for path redundancy. Figure 4-36 examp...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 130 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 4-37 example of a single fibre channel san fabric configuration cross connected dual san fabric figure 4-38 on page 131 is an example of a configuration ...
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Chapter 4. Ibm system storage ds3500 and exp3500 cabling 131 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914cabling2-1908.Fm figure 4-38 cross-connected san fabric connection 4.9 power cabling in this section we describe the power cabling and the correct power on/off sequence for the ds3500 s...
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7914cabling2-1908.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 132 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide of one power source does not cause an unexpected power down event of the entire enclosure. 4.9.2 powering on and off a typical ds3500 configuration includes the...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 133 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager in this chapter, we describe how to install the ibm system storage ds storage manager on microsoft windows, linux, ...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 134 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5.1 installing ds storage manager on microsoft windows 2008 this section describes how to install ds storage manager on a windows 2008 system. Depending on the...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 135 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 2. Select the language to display the license agreement, and click ok (see figure 5-2). Figure 5-2 ibm ds storage manager language selection note: the installation ...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 136 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3. Read the introduction and click next, as shown in figure 5-3. Figure 5-3 ibm ds storage manager introduction 4. Read the copyright statement and click next ...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 137 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm figure 5-5 ibm ds storage manager license agreement 6. Specify the directory where you want to install, as shown in figure 5-6. The default is c:\program files (x86...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 138 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7. For installation type (figure 5-7), select custom and click next. We recommend the custom installation because you can see what components of storage manage...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 139 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm figure 5-8 select product features to install 9. If a version of storage manager is already installed, you will see the warning shown in figure 5-9. You can select ...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 140 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 10.In figure 5-10, you can select whether to automatically start the storage manager monitor. Figure 5-10 ibm ds storage manager automatically start monitor 11...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 141 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 12.The installation status window will appear during the installation, as shown in figure 5-12. Figure 5-12 ibm ds storage manager installation status window after ...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 142 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5.2 installing ds storage manager on linux the procedure to install ds storage manager on linux is similar to windows, with one major difference, the multipath...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 143 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 4. The following files are unpacked: – the installation package and executable – the readme file that describes the package – a subdirectory sm10r2mib that contains...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 144 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 5-14 select the language to display license agreement 4. Read the introduction and click on next as shown in figure 5-15 figure 5-15 introduction.
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 145 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 5. Read the copyright statement and click on next as shown in figure 5-16 figure 5-16 copyright statement 6. Read and accept the license agreement. Click on next as...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 146 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7. Select custom installation type and click on next as shown in figure 5-18. We recommend the custom installation because you can see what components of stora...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 147 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 9. Verify the installation options and click on next as shown in figure 5-20 figure 5-20 pre-installation summary.
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 148 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 10.After a successful installation, a similar screen as in figure 5-21 will be shown. If there are no errors, click on done to exit. Figure 5-21 install comple...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 149 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm =============================================================================== choose locale... ---------------- 1- deutsch ->2- english 3- español 4- francais 5- ...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 150 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. In this custom installation screen, we can select or deselect individual components. By default, all components are be selected and you can deselect the com...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 151 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm example 5-6 installation complete installation complete --------------------- congratulations. Ibm_ds3000 has been successfully installed to: /opt/ibm_ds press to e...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 152 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide enter the number for your choice, or press to accept the default: ->1- completely remove all features and components. 2- choose specific features that were ins...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 153 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 2. Verify there is enough space available in the /usr (615mb), /opt (450mb), /var (31mb) and /tmp(1gb) directories to perform this installation. It is possible to s...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 154 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7. Choose which method you want to use, and launch the installation file, specifying your option with the -i parameter. For example: $sh smia-aix-10.70.65.08.B...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 155 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm figure 5-23 select addition method - automatic 3. Click yes to begin an initial automatic discovery of hosts and storage subsystems attached to the local subnetwork...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 156 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide to add the storage subsystem manually: 1. From the setup tab ds storage manager enterprise management window, click on add storage subsystem link as shown in f...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 157 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm 3. Select a management method and add the storage subsystem as described below: – when using the out-of-band management, select the out-of-band management button as...
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7914installsm01108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 158 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 5-28 in-band management click add to complete the process. Once successfully added, you will have an option to add another storage subsystem as shown in...
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Chapter 5. Installing ibm system storage ds storage manager 159 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914installsm01108.Fm subnet network. If you are using the host-agent method (commonly known as in-band management), ensure that the fibre channel connection between the host and storage...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 161 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management in this chapter, we describe the ibm system storage ds3500 storage manager enterprise management window, including its ...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 162 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 6.1 enterprise management window overview when you launch storage manager, you get the enterprise management window (shown in figure 6-2 on page 163), an...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 163 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm subsystem management: – manage a storage subsystem: starts the main storage manager application, as described in the following chapters. – upgrade controller firmware: ...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 164 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 6-3 shows the various status icons for a storage subsystem. Table 6-1 explains the meaning of each icon. Figure 6-3 status icons table 6-1 status ...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 165 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm 6.2 functions in the enterprise management window next, we describe the various functions that are available from the enterprise management window. 6.2.1 subsystem cont...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 166 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide execute script here you can open the ds3500 script editor. This editor can be a very effective and useful tool to manage your subsystem. For more informa...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 167 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm upgrade controller firmware select this option to upgrade the firmware of the controllers in the storage subsystem. In the process of upgrading the firmware, the firmwa...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 168 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide refresh select this option to refresh the view of the enterprise management window (figure 6-8). You might use this if a system’s status has changed, for...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 169 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm what systems are monitored depending on how you set up alerts, different storage systems are monitored by the event monitor. Alerts can be configured as follows: – to c...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 170 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 6-11 configure alerts for particular subsystem – select configure alerts for one or more systems and the alert window(figure 2 on page 171) appear...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 171 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm e-mail alerts here we discuss how to work with e-mail alerts: 1. To send e-mail alerts, you have to first define an smtp server. Enter the name or ip address of your ma...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 172 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3. Now your window should look similar to figure 6-13. In the drop-down menu next to the address, you can select which information should be sent and how...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 173 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm snmp alerts similarly, select the snmp console for receiving and handling the traps sent by the service. Enter your community name and the destination dress of your snm...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 174 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 6-15 rename storage subsystem comment here you can add a comment to a disk subsystem in the enterprise management window. Choose this option, ente...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 175 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm figure 6-17 add comment to storage subsystem to delete or edit the comment, just re-select the comment option and modify it as needed. Click ok when done. 6.2.2 the ent...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 176 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 6-18 edit menu figure 6-19 tools menu the view submenu use this menu to start the enterprise management window task assistant (figure 6-20 on page...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 177 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm by comment partially managed storage subsystems figure 6-20 view submenu 6.2.3 the quick access buttons below the menu bar you see the quick access buttons, which are u...
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 178 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide this button starts an automatic discovery of new storage subsystems (figure 6-22) by sending in-band and out-of-band broadcasts. If it finds directly att...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 179 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm figure 6-25 manually add out-of-band system.
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7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 180 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide for in-band management, specify the ip address or host name of the host attached to the storage server (figure 6-26). Figure 6-26 manually add in-band sy...
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Chapter 6. Administration - enterprise management 181 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_enterprise1108.Fm figure 6-28 remove subsystem from view launch management window figure 6-29 launch management window highlight a storage subsystem and click this button to launch the s...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 183 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_summary.Fm chapter 7. Administration - summary tab in this chapter, we give you an overview of thesummary tab of the ibm system storage ds (subsystem management) window. We explain: how t...
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7914admin_summary.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 184 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 7-1 ibm system storage ds storage manager summary tab.
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Chapter 7. Administration - summary tab 185 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_summary.Fm 7.1 status the first box is the status box, which displays the basic status of your storage subsystem (figure 7-2). Figure 7-2 status box 7.1.1 storage subsystem profile configuring a s...
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7914admin_summary.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 186 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7.1.2 storage subsystem status the second line in the status box shows the current subsystem status. If the status is green as on figure 7-2 on page 185, the su...
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Chapter 7. Administration - summary tab 187 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_summary.Fm figure 7-6 detailed in progress information 7.1.4 connection lost if the management connection from the management station to the storage subsystem is lost, the subsystem icon and text ...
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7914admin_summary.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 188 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 7-8 hardware components for information how to get more information about hw component go to chapter 10, “administration - physical tab” on page 263. 7.3...
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Chapter 7. Administration - summary tab 189 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_summary.Fm 7.4 hosts & mappings below the capacity box is an overview of your hosts & mappings and shown in figure 7-10. Figure 7-10 hosts & mappings hosts are single server systems that can be ma...
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7914admin_summary.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 190 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 7.4.2 host-to-logical drive mappings host-to-logical drive mappings is the second link in this box. Next to the link you see the number of logical drives that a...
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Chapter 7. Administration - summary tab 191 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_summary.Fm 7.5 arrays & logical drives at the top of the right column of the summary tab is the arrays & logical drives box. This box shows how many arrays and logical drives are configured on you...
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7914admin_summary.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 192 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in the following example on figure 7-15 are shown various topics how to configure ds3500 storage subsystem if storage concepts tutorial link is selected. Figure...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 193 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management chapter 6, “administration - enterprise management” on page 161 describes how to start managing a storage subsystem from the ...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 194 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 8.1 ds storage manager - subsystem manger window the ibm system storage ds storage manager subsystem management window has four main areas and show in figure ...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 195 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm 8.2 pull-down menu the first area from the top of subsystem management window is pull down menu bar. While it is possible to do almost all configuration tasks from this menu,...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 196 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-2 storage subsystem menu here we describe the most common items of this pull down menu. The others (iscsi, drive security, recovery guru and monitor ...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 197 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-3 view controller/drive enclosure view enclosure components drive enclosure almost the same type of information can be displayed also for exp3500 drive enclosures, c...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 198 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-5 unassociated ports - fc and sas hba's and iscsi initiator locate this menu item helps you to find the ds3500 subsystem in rack. If storage subsyste...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 199 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-6 automatic configuration detailed description of automatic configuration of unconfigured disk drives on ds3500 storage subsystem is in 12.6.1, “automatic configurat...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 200 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-7 save configuration the configuration save option lets you save storage subsystem settings, logical drive configuration, topology, and mappings to t...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 201 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm http://www-912.Ibm.Com/premiumfeatures/ figure 8-8 premium feature activation web site the following premium features can be delivered with your ds3500 storage subsystem or y...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 202 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide enabled/activated by *.Key file, that has to be downloaded from ibm web site (figure 8-8 on page 201). The feature enable identifier displayed at the bottom o...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 203 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-11 disable premium feature feature pack the second pane in the premium feature window (figure 8-9 on page 202) is feature pack. It is not possible to change the feat...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 204 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the array containing mirror repositories must not be deleted until the remote mirroring is deactivated again. These two repositories are automatically deleted...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 205 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-14 change subsystem menu battery settings the ds3500 storage subsystem batteries do not maintain expiration dates. Battery can be replaced only when the leds indicat...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 206 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-16 cache settings for storage subsystem you have a choice to set start and stop level for cache flushing, and the cache block size there. General rec...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 207 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm failover alert delay a failover alert delay can be specified on ds3500 storage subsystem. It can delay the logging of a critical event if the multipath failover driver transf...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 208 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-19 time-out for password re-entering enclosure id each ds3500 enclosure (including the controller enclosure) must have a unique enclosure id. To set ...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 209 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-21 enclosures layout select storage subsystem change enclosure order to change the layout. In the window like in figure 8-22, you can select the enclosure which has ...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 210 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide manage enclosure alarm as no ds3500 storage subsystem uses an acoustic alarm feature, this menu is always grayed and cannot be used. Rename subsystem when you...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 211 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-25 set password if you have forgotten the current password, contact your ibm customer support representative. If a password was not set previously (you have got a ne...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 212 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. For viewing the associated logical elements and physical components: usage of these two menu items depends on the component that is selected in logical, ph...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 213 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm 3. For finding logical objects in the logical and the mapping tabs: you can search an array or a logical drive in the logical tab, or you can search hosts and host groups in ...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 214 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-31 mappings menu 8.2.4 array menu the array pull-down menu (figure 8-32) is tightly associated to logical tab. All items in this menu can be activate...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 215 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm object in physical tab is selected, no menu item can be selected. We cover all settings that can be done by this menu in chapter 10, “administration - physical tab” on page 2...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 216 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 8-38 help window from left to right you can select the following tabs: 1. Content in the content tab you can find all the chapters of the online help i...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 217 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-39 help - find you can select help about to get information (figure 8-40) about the version of ibm system storage ds storage manager which you are using. It is impor...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 218 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 8.3 toolbar several icons are placed in the toolbar area and shown in figure 8-41. These icons can help you to easily navigate to some management tasks. Figur...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 219 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm figure 8-42 event log the event log window remains opened even if you go back to the subsystem manager window. You must select “update” button to get fresh events displayed, ...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 220 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 8.3.4 recover from failures this icon (also called the recovery guru) has dynamic behavior. If the whole storage subsystem is in optimal status, it is stable ...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 221 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm existing volumecopy pairs. We recommend to find detailed information about the copy manager, volumecopy and about all other copy services in ibm midrange system storage copy ...
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7914admin_subsystem.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 222 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 8.5 tabs this is the main management area of the ibm system storage ds (subsystem management). In this area (see figure 8-48) you can see the highlighted name...
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Chapter 8. Administration - subsystem management 223 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_subsystem.Fm pane provides a view of the logical components in the storage subsystem in a tree structure. The properties pane displays detailed information about the component that is sel...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 225 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm chapter 9. Administration - logical tab in this chapter, we describe the logical tab of the ds storage manager. In this tab, you can logically configure a ds3500 storage subsys...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 226 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9.1 logical tab the logical tab (figure 9-1) shows the organization of the storage subsystem by logical drives, arrays, free capacity nodes, and any unconfigure...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 227 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm if the first line of logical pane (storage subsystem) is selected, the link opens a window with subsystem storage profile. As usual, you can get required information also from different...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 228 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in the following sections we will describe the most of them, others are described in chapters or sections dedicated to specific topic. 9.2 working with unconfig...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 229 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-4 unconfigured disks the disks marked with the blue bullets are unconfigured. You can also recognize this by the icon for unused disks. Right-click on the unconfigured capacity...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 230 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide this action starts the wizard for creating the array. The first window of the wizard is an introduction to the process. It displays the available unconfigured c...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 231 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm planning tasks” on page 29 to determine the best raid level for your specific environment and application. – select the line with required capacity in the list and click finish. In our ...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 232 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide what to do with the array is given by the menu, that can be activated by right-click on selected array (figure 9-9). We describe these options in following sect...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 233 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-10 associated components for array 9.3.2 change ownership and raid level in this section we discuss the options to change the controller ownership and the raid level. Ownership...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 234 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 9-11 change ownership confirmation raid level changing the raid level of an array is performed in a non disruptive manner. This feature is called dynamic...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 235 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm to change the raid, select the array, right click, and use the change raid level n menu as in figure 9-12. Current raid level is marked by black bullet and you can select your new requi...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 236 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9.3.3 add free capacity (drive) the ability to increase the available free capacity in an array without need to restart the host system is a very important feat...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 237 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm for raid levels 3, 5, and 6, select one or two drive, and for raid levels 1 and 10, mandatory two drives must be selected. Pay attention to the following considerations: only sas drives...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 238 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 9-15 array and logical drives deletion if some of the logicaldrive cannot be deleted (because of any reason), also the array cannot be deleted. For renam...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 239 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-17 free capacity menu 9.4.1 create logical drive you can also right click on the free capacity and select create logical drive. We explain the procedure to create a logical dri...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 240 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 9-18 specifying logical drive capacity and name 4. The customize advanced logical drive parameters window opens (figure 9-19). You can set your new logic...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 241 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm cache read prefetch and the segment size. Table 9-1 shows the defaults predefined for each i/o type. Table 9-1 logical drive defaults i/o characteristics b. The segment size is chosen a...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 242 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide and is available to any host zoned to the ds3500 storage subsystem, so it is not the recommended choice. Figure 9-20 new logical drive mapping 6. Click finish a...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 243 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-22 create logical drive - completed 8. The new logical drive will be formatted, and in the properties pane of storage manager you can check the progress of this operation (see ...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 244 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9.5 working with logical drive the logical drive is the main building block of the ds3500 storage subsystem. Your host servers can only see these logical drives...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 245 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm media scan media scan with redundancy check pre-read redundancy check you can also set your regular logical drive as source of advanced copy services, like flashcopy, volumecopy or enha...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 246 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide if the logical drive contains critical data, you can set a high modification priority to keep the time of a critical state (for example, after losing a disk) as...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 247 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm you can select more drives in figure 9-26 on page 246 by using the ctrl or shift key during selection or by using the select all button. All of the selected drives will have the same mo...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 248 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the logical drive is highlighted depending on the initial selection and we also have several check boxes for other settings. You can select more logical drives ...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 249 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm some logical drives which are used just to store temporary data only, can have cache mirroring disabled, but be sure you can regenerate the data again easily, as you can lose them if on...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 250 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9.5.3 change media scan settings media scan is a background process enabled by default, that checks logical drives over hard disk drives for defects by reading ...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 251 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm table 9-2 media scan errors a media scan is a long running process with the lowest priority, so you can only run a media scan on logical drives that meet the following conditions: optim...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 252 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the change media scan settings window has two sections. In the first, you can suspend media scan or set the scan duration for entire storage subsystem, and in t...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 253 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm the pre-read check is done online on each read operation and media scan checks for redundancy offline at a predefined time interval in days. To locate this setting, do the following ste...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 254 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide balancing traffic is unfortunately not always a trivial task. For example, if an application requires large disk space to be located and accessed in one chunk, ...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 255 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm when you create a logical drive, the default segment size choose is 128 kb, unless you are creating logical drives under a raid3, or choosing the multimedia type for the logical drive, ...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 256 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide – raid 1 or raid 10=number of drives / 2 – raid 5= number of drives - 1 – raid 6= number of drives - 2 if the resulting segment size is >512 kb, then divide it ...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 257 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-33 segment size warning 3. Select yes and the logical drive starts to be modified. You can see the clock icon on it and progress bar in the properties pane. 9.5.7 increase capa...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 258 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the storage capacity of a standard logical drive cannot be increased if: one or more hot spare drives are in use in the array that it resides on. The logical dr...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 259 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-35 increase capacity - set amount 3. Click ok after selecting the capacity to add. A warning message appears indicating that this operation cannot be stopped after it is starte...
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7914admin_logical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 260 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9.5.8 copy services operations if you select a logical drive and right click, you can see four menu items related to copy services (figure 9-37). Some of these ...
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Chapter 9. Administration - logical tab 261 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_logical.Fm figure 9-38 free capacity island in array.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 263 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm chapter 10. Administration - physical tab we have described, how to configure logical objects (arrays and logical drives) of the ds3500 storage subsystem in chapter 9, “admini...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 264 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 10.1 physical tab the physical tab (figure 10-1) shows the organization of the storage subsystem by controllers, disk drives, and other hardware components. Th...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 265 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm 10.2 discover component properties and location in the left physical pane you can see schematic layout of physical enclosures of ds3500 storage subsystem. In figure 10-1 on page 264,...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 266 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 10-4 enclosure properties the remaining physical components in the physical pane are disks and controllers. If you select a disk or a controller, you wi...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 267 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm figure 10-6 associated logical elements create array and create logical drive (manual mode) these two menu options take you to a screen for creating an array and/or a logical drive i...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 268 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 10-7 controller menu view associated logical element if you select this menu item, you can see a list of related logical objects, like array and logical...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 269 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm – for an array that has secured fde drives (security key activated), the hot-spare drive should be a secured or unsecured fde drive only, with the same or greater capacity. – for an ...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 270 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 10-8 hot spare drive options you have four options to define hot spare drives: view/change coverage automatic assignment manual assignment (if unassigne...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 271 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm view/change hot spare coverage in the hot spare drive option window (figure 10-8 on page 270) select “view/change hot spare coverage” option. The hot spare coverage window similar as...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 272 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 10-10 assigning hot spare here you can select new hot spare for your unprotected array. Hot spare drives pane shows hot spare drives used. If you have m...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 273 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm figure 10-11 degraded logical drive + hot spare in use 1. Select the failed disk drive or missing disk drive icon in the physical pane, right click, and select replace drives in the ...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 274 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 10-13 replace drives - select disk 3. Select the missing or failed drive from the upper list (if more than one drive is missing or failed). Select the a...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 275 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm 10.5 set preferred loop id loop id is unique id of a port in fibre-channel loop topology, sometimes is referred as a loop address. The preferred loop id menu is not available for ds3...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 276 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide disables the loop mode. If the controller port currently has a preferred loop id of 126, this radio button is selected by default. Set during loop initializati...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 277 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm the ds3500 storage subsystem has two management ethernet ports per controller. Use one ethernet port for daily management of your ds3500 storage subsystem. Reserve the other port for...
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7914admin_physical.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 278 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide alternatively, you can add your storage manually from the enterprise management selecting menu edit add storage subsystem, and then completing the fields with ...
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Chapter 10. Administration - physical tab 279 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_physical.Fm figure 10-18 change ethernet settings 2. Input the required network information and click ok. You can configure both controllers from this window by selecting the appropriate etherne...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 281 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab in this chapter, we describe the mappings tab of the ibm system storage ds storage manager. This tab is primarily used for assigning ...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 282 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 11.1 mappings tab the mappings tab contains the topology pane and the defined mappings pane. In the topology pane, you can define the host groups, hosts, and h...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 283 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-2 shows an example of the mappings tab. The right side of the window lists all mappings that are owned by the object you selected on the left side. If you highlight the sto...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 284 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide configuration options for the whole storage subsystem are accessible from the mappings tab. These options are described in chapter 8, “administration - subsyst...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 285 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-4 define host wizard: specify host name 3. If you only plan to attach a single host server, then you do not need storage partitioning. But if you plan to group different ho...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 286 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 11-5 define host: interface type, known port identifier and alias – select your interface type (sas in our example) – select an active port already dete...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 287 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-6 define host: interface type, new port identifier and alias – type an alias for the specified host port identifier and click add. – repeat the same process until you defin...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 288 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 11-7 define host: specify host type 6. In the next step, you are asked whether the host is a part of a cluster (figure 11-8). Choose yes if it will be c...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 289 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-9 define host: specify new host group 8. Finally, you have a chance to preview the new host definition (figure 11-10 on page 290). If all the selections are correct, click ...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 290 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide right corner of this window. You can use this script command for example to easily change the host definition for mapping copies of logical drives in some high...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 291 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm 11.2.1 adding a new host to existing host group you can decide to incorporate a new host to the host group, and make it work together with the other host or hosts as a cluster. Remem...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 292 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide : figure 11-13 second host group added for clustering 11.3 defining storage partitioning next we describe how to set a new storage partition definition for hos...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 293 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm 1. Right-click default group or any unmapped host or host group icon in topology tree below the default group (figure 11-14). Then select define storage partitioning. The storage par...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 294 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3. The next window (figure 11-16) allows you to select the logical drives that are going to be mapped to the host or the host group. Specify a lun number that ...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 295 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm notice, that the host w2008_server is defined as a member of the host group w2k_cluster_02 in our example, and the logical drive is mapped to the host group. As mentioned before, the...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 296 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 11-18 define host group menu.
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 297 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm 2. The define host group window (shown in figure 11-19) opens. Enter the name of the host group you want to define. Select every host you want to add to the group and click add. If y...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 298 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide from the subsystem management pull down menu bar, select mappings manage host port identifiers. Another option is to select any host in the topology tree and r...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 299 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-21 define additional mapping 2. In the define additional mapping window (figure 11-22), select logical drive you want to map to this host group or host, and assign the corr...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 300 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3. Click add and selected mapping is active immediately. You can repeat this selection and adding process until no unmapped logical drive are left. All hosts a...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 301 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-24 move host from host group or to other group if you have a standalone host, you can move it to any appropriate host group for clustering. Remove use this option to delete...
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7914admin_mappings.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 302 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 11-25 change host type select required operating system, click ok and change is accepted immediately. 11.10 change and remove mapping till now, all desc...
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Chapter 11. Administration - mappings tab 303 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_mappings.Fm figure 11-27 change mapping - warning remove mapping if you remove mapping, the selected logical drive is no longer accessible by host server. But data is still on logical drive and ...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 305 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm chapter 12. Administration - setup tab in this chapter, we describe the setup tab of the ds storage manager. This tab can be used for initial configuration of a new ds3500 storag...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 306 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 12.1 setup tab the figure 12-1 shows the setup tab in ibm system storage ds storage manager. Figure 12-1 setup tab of ds storage manager when the iscsi daughter c...
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Chapter 12. Administration - setup tab 307 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm figure 12-2 locate storage subsystem 12.3 rename storage subsystem rename storage subsystem link directly opens a window, where you can change the name of ds3500 storage subsystem. When yo...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 308 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 12-4 password change if you are setting the password for the first time on a new ds3500, the “current password” field remains empty. 12.5 configure iscsi h...
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Chapter 12. Administration - setup tab 309 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm figure 12-5 iscsi port settings on ds3500 12.6 configure storage subsystem if you select this link, the wizard opens as in figure 12-6 on page 310. This can be used to configure logical dr...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 310 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 12-6 configuration task this wizard has three options: 12.6.1, “automatic configuration” on page 310 12.6.2, “configure hot spare drives” on page 313 12.6....
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Chapter 12. Administration - setup tab 311 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm figure 12-7 fully automatic configuration of arrays we do not recommend the “choose a suggested configuration” option, as it creates unpractical set of many arrays with a minimal number of...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 312 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 12-8 automatic configuration with more parameters summary window and a window with additional information about the automatic configuration process (figure...
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Chapter 12. Administration - setup tab 313 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm 12.6.2 configure hot spare drives if you select configure hot spare drives option in select configuration task window (figure 12-6 on page 310), a new window opens for a hot spare configur...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 314 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 12-11 configure new array detailed description of arrays and logical drives definition is in chapter 9, “administration - logical tab” on page 225. This ch...
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Chapter 12. Administration - setup tab 315 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_setup.Fm figure 12-12 save configuration when your ds3500 storage subsystem is fully configured, the save configuration option lets you save storage subsystem logical settings, logical drive config...
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7914admin_setup.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 316 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 12.10 configure ethernet management ports this link enables to change current ip addresses of your storage subsystem. Follow the steps and comments in section 10....
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 317 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm chapter 13. Administration - iscsi in this chapter we describe iscsi management options which are available in the ds storage manager. These options are specific only for ibm sys...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 318 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 13.1 planning for iscsi attachment in addition to using sas and fibre channel as the interface connection method, iscsi host interfaces of ds3500 allow servers wi...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 319 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm and in order to protect the integrity of the data in your ds3500 storage subsystem, and its continuous access, we suggest that, whenever possible, to try to isolate the iscsi traffic in a dedi...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 320 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide – view iscsi statistics – view/end iscsi sessions we also cover some differences in iscsi host server attachment: view unassociated iscsi initiators define new is...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 321 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm another type of authentication - the mutual authentication (also called bi-directional authentication ) can only be configured on the iscsi initiator, when the initiator itself authenticates a...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 322 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. Figure 13-3 shows the “enter target chap secret” dialog. Enter a chap secret that is at least 12 characters long. Repeat the text in second line to confirm. Al...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 323 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm figure 13-4 iscsi mutual authentication 3. In a new window as shown in figure 13-5, enter an initiator chap secret with at least 12 characters twice. The same initiator chap secret must be set...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 324 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. Enter an alias name in the second line in this tab as in figure 13-6, and click ok. Figure 13-6 iscsi target identification 13.3.4 target discovery we discusse...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 325 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm figure 13-7 target discovery - enable isns server 3. Enter the ipv4 or ipv6 address of the isns server or select obtain configuration automatically from dhcp server. 4. Click advanced to defin...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 326 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide use of native vlans or not use of static ipv4 addresses or addresses assigned by a dhcp/bootp server whether to allow icmp ping responses requirement and size of ...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 327 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm figure 13-9 iscsi host port selection default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and default ip addresses for iscsi ports are: a3: 192.168.130.101 a4: 192.168.131.101 a5: 192.168.132.101 a6: 192.168...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 328 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 13-10 advanced ipv4 settings 7. Similar configurations are available for the ipv6 settings. 8. After configuring ipv4 and /or ipv6, you can select advanced...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 329 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm 11.After setting all the options, click ok to save the modifications. In figure 13-12, you are advised which ports will be reset to apply the configuration. Active iscsi sessions that can be c...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 330 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 13-13 view/end iscsi sessions 3. To terminate a session, select it in the top pane and click end session. If the initiator is still available and active, t...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 331 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm example 13-1 sample session information session identifier (ssid): 0x00023d030000:2 initiator session id (isid): 0x00023d030000 target portal group tag (tpgt): 2 target session identifier: 327...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 332 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 13-14 view iscsi statistics for tcp/ip a link view legend for table headings opens the online help window, where description is provided to translate colum...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 333 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm figure 13-15 iscsi context help 13.7 defining iscsi hosts defining host using an iscsi initiator is slightly different than definition of host with fc or sas hba’s. In case of iscsi hw initiat...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 334 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide this iscsi initiator. An iscsi sw initiator in suse linux is shown as example in figure 13-16. The iqn name offers easier way to recognize operating system of the...
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Chapter 13. Administration - iscsi 335 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914admin_iscsi.Fm figure 13-17 define iscsi host: host port identifier specification mapping of logical drives to iscsi host is the same as for every other host. It does not depend on the type of host attachmen...
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7914admin_iscsi.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 336 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 13-18 iscsi host port information theoretically, you can add or replace iscsi port identifier, but practically, if you have iscsi software initiator tightl...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 337 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm chapter 14. Administration - support in this chapter, we describe some of the support functions of the ibm system storage ds3500. These functions can help with troubleshooting ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 338 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.1 the subsystem management support tab in this section we introduce the main support functions that are accessed from the ds storage manager (subsystem manag...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 339 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm view online help - clicking on this link displays the ds storage manager online help and is further discussed in 14.15, “view online help” on page 446. About ibm system storage ds - clicki...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 340 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-3 collect all support data window 14.2.1 saving the support data use the following step-by-step procedure to save the support data: 1. Open the collec...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 341 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-5 collect all support data - click the start button to begin the data collection 3. The collect all support data window will display a progress bar while the data is being collec...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 342 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-7 collect all support data - save completed 5. Send the zip file containing the collected support data to your ibm customer support representative for...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 343 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 2. Click the automatically collect support data for critical events check box in the new window (figure 14-9) to enable the automatic data collection and, optionally, you can use the chang...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 344 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. Click on the browse button to specify the location and filename of the zip file where you will save the drive diagnostic data. Then click the start button to...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 345 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-12 state capture 2. Click the browse button to specify the location and filename of the state capture information file (the default file extension is dmp). Then click the start b...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 346 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-14 state capture completed 14.3 view storage subsystem profile we introduced the storage subsystem profile in 7.1.1, “storage subsystem profile” on pa...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 347 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-15 the default view when viewing the ds3500 storage subsystem profile 2. Select the tab for the information you want to view. By default, it opens the summary tab. Select a speci...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 348 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 3. Use the find box (figure 14-17) in the lower left corner of the profile window to search the profile. Enter the required text and click the “binoculars” icon...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 349 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 14.4 storage manager support monitor in this section we discuss the configuration and use of the ds storage manager support monitor profiler software. Additional information about the supp...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 350 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.4.3 the support monitor profiler console the support monitor profiler console is a web-based interface for configuring and administrating the support monitor...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 351 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-20 support monitor profiler console any ds storage systems that are being managed by the ds storage manager instance on the management system running support monitor will automat...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 352 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. Click on monitors support monitor in the navigation bar to display the support monitor view as shown in figure 14-22. Figure 14-22 support monitor 5. Click o...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 353 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-25 profiler - send support data do the following to select and send collected support logs to your support personnel for review: a. Highlight one or more of the support bundle fi...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 354 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-26 schedule support data collection 3. Click on the life preserver icon to save a data collection immediately. You may see a message alerting you that...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 355 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-28 profiler - compute change log files 14.4.5 support monitor - view module logs in this section we describe how to view the running log of the ds storage manager profiler suppor...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 356 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-30 view module log file 3. Click on the download module logs and data link to open the window as shown in figure 14-31. Here you can specify the modul...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 357 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 14.5 download firmware in this section we describe the steps to upgrade the ds3500 storage subsystem firmware and nvsram microcode. You can download the latest firmware at: http://www.Ibm....
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 358 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.5.1 before you upgrade there are some precautions you should take before you update a storage subsystem: make sure that the overall system status is optimal ...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 359 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm firmware inventory before and after updating the firmware levels of the ds3500 storage subsystem, you can use the firmware inventory to view the firmware levels for one storage subsystem, ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 360 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. To view the firmware inventory for more than one storage subsystem, click on the tools firmware inventory menu command from the enterprise management window....
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 361 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm also check the hba firmware to make sure it is at the latest supported level. You can also find this information at the ibm support web site listed at the beginning of 14.5, “download firm...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 362 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide you can correct some of these conditions by using the functions accessible through the subsystem management window. However, for some of these conditions, you m...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 363 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm table 14-1 comparison of the firmware updater functions 14.5.4 using the enterprise management upgrade tool in this section we describe the procedure to update the ds3500 controller firmwa...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 364 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide controller firmware is not presently upgradeable. The reason or reasons for this status is reported in the details section of the upgrade tool window. Figure 14...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 365 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm instructions on how to clear the subsystem event log. However, certain types of problems may require that you contact your local ibm support representative. 3. If the firmware upgrade tool...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 366 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-40 download firmware window there are two main sections to this window: – current versions: this section reports the versions of controller firmware a...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 367 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-41 select firmware file b. In the selected nvsram file section, click on the browse... Button to select the nvsram file that you want to transfer (figure 14-42 on page 368). Atte...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 368 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-42 select the nvsram file 5. If you want to transfer the firmware and nvsram and activate these immediately, then click the ok... Button in figure 14-...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 369 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-43 transfer and activate a. Click the yes button to start the transfer and activation. B. The firmware upgrade tool will begin transferring the firmware images to the controllers...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 370 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-45 successful firmware transfer and activation 6. As described above, the default procedure is to transfer the firmware and nvsram and activate the ne...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 371 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm b. Click the ok... Button. You will be asked to confirm that you want to transfer the firmware and nvsram now but activate the new versions later (figure 14-47). Figure 14-47 confirm downl...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 372 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-49 firmware pending e. Click on the activate button to activate the pending firmware. The window shown in figure 14-50 will appear. Figure 14-50 confi...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 373 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-51 firmware activated successfully 7. It is also possible to clear a pending firmware and nvsram upgrade image that has been transferred to the ds3500 storage system, but not yet...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 374 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-53 clear pending firmware upgrade c. Click the yes button to clear the pending firmware upgrade and the clear pending firmware progress window shown i...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 375 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 8. You can also use the upgrade tool to install only an updated nvsram file. A. Click on the nvsram button in figure 14-55 on page 374. The download nvsram window appears, as shown in figu...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 376 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-58 confirm download d. You can monitor the status of the nvsram upgrade in the upgrade controller firmware window. Figure 14-59 shows the status after...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 377 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-60 select download task firmware window the five download options are: download controller firmware - the controller firmware of the ds3500 storage subsystem. Download controller...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 378 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide download esm card firmware follow the steps described in this section to install the esm firmware for the exp3500 enclosure(s). 1. To update the esm code, selec...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 379 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-63 confirm download 4. The status field in the row of selected enclosures changes from pending to transferring while the esm card firmware upgrade progresses. Monitor the progres...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 380 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-65 esm firmware transfer completed download esm configuration settings follow the steps described in this section to install new esm configuration set...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 381 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm want to install the esm configuration file to just one enclosure, then select just that enclosure in the list of enclosures. 3. Click the select file button to specify the esm configuratio...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 382 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-68 download controller firmware the download controller firmware window has two sections. The first section, controller firmware , is where you select...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 383 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-69 download controller firmware - select controller file 5. To update the nvsram in the same step, select the transfer nvsram file with controller firmware check box and browse t...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 384 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-70 download controller firmware - with nvsram firmware 6. Click transfer to submit the new microcode to the storage subsystem. The confirm download wi...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 385 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-72 downloading the firmware after the controller firmware has been transferred, it is activated on both controllers. This step may take some time. The activation status is report...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 386 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-74 download successful download controller nvsram follow the steps described in this section to install the controller nvsram. 1. To download a new nv...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 387 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-76 select the nvsram file to install 3. Once you have selected the nvsram file that you want to install, click the transfer button to begin installing the new nvsram file on the ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 388 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. The downloading window appears and shows you the status of the transfer and the activation on the controller(s) (see figure 14-78). Figure 14-78 download pro...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 389 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm download drive firmware the hard drive firmware upgrade process is disruptive and it requires that all host i/os are suspended for the duration of the update. Plan a production outage in a...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 390 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. The download drive firmware - add packages window appears (figure 14-81). This window has two main sections: – the current package section contains a list of...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 391 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-82 download drive firmware - select a package as you highlight each package listed in the window shown in figure 14-82, the file information section will report if the selected d...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 392 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. Repeat these steps for every drive type that you want to update. You can update up to four drive types at a time. Once you have selected the compatible drive...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 393 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 5. Now you have to select the drives in the subsystem you want to update (figure 14-86). You only see the compatible drives in this window. Check select all to update all compatible drives...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 394 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-88 confirm download.
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 395 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 8. After the update completes, a summary is displayed (figure 14-89). If you want to update more drives, click transfer more to select the compatible packages; otherwise, click close to ex...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 396 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-90 event log the event log shows a summary for each event in the list, including: date/time: the date and time that the event occurred. The date and t...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 397 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-92 viewing the event log details the detail information covers the following information: date/time: the date and time that the event occurred. The date and time are set from the...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 398 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide component type: the type of component that is affected by the event. The component type might indicate a physical component, such as a disk drive, or a logical ...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 399 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-95 select all events save as: this button saves the highlighted events. To save several entries, use the ctrl key to select them; to save all entries, use the select all button b...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 400 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide clear all: select this option to clear the event log. In the confirmation window (figure 14-97), type yes to delete all the events. We recommend that you save a...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 401 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm want to collect performance counters for. Click on the select all button to collect performance counters for all logical drives and controllers in the subsystem. You also specify how often...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 402 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.8 import/export array the ds3500 storage subsystem has the ability to export and import arrays which enables you to safely move arrays between different ds35...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 403 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm cannot exceed the maximum number of logical drives supported by the storage subsystem. – make sure that the latest version of firmware is installed on the controller. – make sure the targe...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 404 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-102 introduction (export array).
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 405 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 3. The preparation checklist (export array) window is displayed as shown in figure 14-103. This checklist lists the preparation instructions for both the source storage subsystem and desti...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 406 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. The export array wizard then begins the export procedure as shown in figure 14-105. Figure 14-105 processing array export 6. The window shown in figure 14-10...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 407 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-107 exported - ready for import 7. Finally, the hard disks in the exported array may be carefully removed from the source ds3500 and may be installed into the empty slots of the ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 408 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide non-importable components some components cannot be imported during the import array procedure. These components are removed during the import procedure: host-t...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 409 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-109 introduction (import array) 3. The import array (import array) window is displayed as shown in figure 14-110. This window displays the array information and associated disk d...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 410 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. Click the finish button in figure 14-110 on page 409 to import the array. The confirm import array window as shown in figure 14-111 will appear. Type “yes” a...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 411 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 7. The status of the newly imported array is reported as optimal in the storage manager logical tab, as shown in figure 14-114. Figure 14-114 imported array 8. You will now need to create ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 412 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the ds storage manager software allows you to manage persistent reservations from the subsystem management window. The persistent reservation option enables you...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 413 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm b. Click one or more desired logical drives. To select all of the logical drives, click select all. C. Click clear. D. In the text box in the clear registrations/reservations dialog, type ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 414 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-117 drive channel status details 2. You can clear the cumulative error counts for both drive channels by selecting either drive channel 1 or 2 in the ...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 415 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-118 drive channel 1 in degraded status 5. To locate drive expansion enclosures that are connected to a drive channel, use the locate option to physically locate and identify all ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 416 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-120 run controller diagnostics 2. The run diagnostics window shown in figure 14-121 on page 417 will open. In this window you choose the tests that yo...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 417 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-121 run diagnostics 3. Once you have selected the tests to run, click the run button. You will be asked to confirm that you want to run the tests, as shown in figure 14-122. Read...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 418 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-123 run diagnostics - completed 14.12 troubleshooting - prepare for removal before you remove a component, the ds storage manager software checks to s...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 419 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-124 prepare for removal 2. In this window, you select the enclosure and then the component within that enclosure from the two drop-down menus. Then click the prepare for removal ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 420 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-125 support tab - recover from failure click the recover from failure link to launch the recovery guru, as shown in figure 14-126 on page 421..
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 421 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-126 recovery guru the recovery guru windows has three main sections, known as panes: summary pane: a list of all the detected problems are listed here. There are two separate pro...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 422 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-127 recovery commands 14.14.1 initialize when you select advanced recovery initialize in the smw, the following submenu options appear initialize driv...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 423 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm perform these steps to initialize a drives: 1. Open the physical tab in the ds storage manager (subsystem management) window and select one or more drives to be initialized. You can select...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 424 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-128 initialize logical drive progress initialize - array use the initialize array option when the recovery guru advises that you manually initialize a...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 425 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm 3. You will be asked to confirm that you want to proceed. Type “yes” in the textbox, and then click ok to continue. 4. You can monitor the progress of each logical drive initialization in ...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 426 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-129 revive drive 3. You will be asked to confirm that you want to proceed. Type “yes” in the textbox and click ok to continue. 14.14.3 recovery - clea...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 427 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm perform these steps to clear the storage subsystem configuration: 1. In the ds storage manager (subsystem management) window, select the advanced recovery clear configuration storage subsy...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 428 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-131 clear array configuration 3. Type “yes” in the textbox and click ok to clear the array configuration. 14.14.4 recovery - place controller you can ...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 429 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-132 place controller online 2. The window shown in figure 14-133 will be displayed. Read the information and then click the yes button to confirm that you want to place the contr...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 430 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 1. Select the controller in the physical tab of the ds storage manager (subsystem management) window and then select the advanced recovery place controller offl...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 431 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm place controller in service mode you can use the place controller in service mode option to safely run controller diagnostics without affecting data availability. These conditions apply wh...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 432 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-137 confirm place in service mode 3. A controller in service mode can be set to either the online or offline state using the procedures described prev...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 433 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-138 reset controller 2. The window shown in figure 14-139 will be displayed. Read the information and the click the yes button to reset the selected controller. Figure 14-139 con...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 434 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide logical drive ownership transfer. When the operation that caused the controller to be disabled is finished, you can perform these steps to re-enable data transf...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 435 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-140 redistribute logical drives 2. The window shown in figure 14-141 will be displayed. Read the information and then click the yes button to redistribute the logical drives to t...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 436 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-142 redistribute logical drives - progress 14.14.9 recovery - fail drive you can use this function to set the state of a drive to failed. Use the foll...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 437 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-143 fail drive 2. You will be asked to confirm that you want to fail the selected drive, as shown in figure 14-144. Figure 14-144 confirm fail drive 3. Read the information and t...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 438 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.14.10 recovery - reconstruct drive you can use the reconstruct drive function to manually start reconstruction of a drive. Use the following procedure to man...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 439 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-146 confirm reconstruct 4. The drive will have a status of replaced while the reconstruction is occurring. The array and logical drive(s) will have a status of degraded until the...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 440 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide your data remains accessible during the defragment operation. To use this option, all of the logical drives in the array must be online and in optimal status, a...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 441 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-149 defragment array - confirm 3. Click the yes button. All of the free data blocks on the free capacity nodes are consolidated into one free capacity node that contains a larger...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 442 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.14.12 recovery - check array redundancy you can use the check array redundancy function to check the redundancy on a selected array. Keep these important gui...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 443 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-151 check array redundancy 2. The windows shown in figure 14-152 will be displayed. Figure 14-152 confirm check redundancy 3. Read the information and click the yes button to dis...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 444 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 14-153 check redundancy 4. Click the start button and the check redundancy operation will begin. The logical drives in the array are sequentially scanned...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 445 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm level 0) logical drives. The unreadable sectors log can store up to 1000 unreadable sectors. When the unreadable sectors log reaches 1000 entries, the following conditions apply: if new un...
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7914support2-0209.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 446 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.15 view online help click this link in the support tab to access the subsystem management online help system, as shown in figure 14-156. You will find a lot ...
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Chapter 14. Administration - support 447 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914support2-0209.Fm figure 14-157 about ibm system storage ds storage manager.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 449 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives disk security is a new feature which is now also available for the ibm system storage ds3500 storage subsystem that uses the ne...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 450 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 15.1 the need for encryption data security breaches are becoming increasingly common, and the threat of unauthorized access to sensitive data and intellectual property is...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 451 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-1 shows the relationship of the ibm disk encryption manager and an individual fde drive with encryption enabled. Figure 15-1 ds3500 disk encryption manager using self...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 452 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide with this relationship, the correct keys, and authentication, the fde drive will encrypt data written and decrypt data read from it. But if the disk is removed and data o...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 453 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm with this function you can record both the security key id, pass phrase, and the secure file location in a safe place. Using the fde drive, it generates and encrypts a security...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 454 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 15.2.5 security key identifier for additional protection, the security key that is used to unlock fde drives is not visible to the user. The security key identifier is us...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 455 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm appear. See figure 15-9 on page 459 the description of the warning will include suggestions about how the password can be made stronger. The security key and the security key i...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 456 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide other premium feature key (see “premium features” on page 200 for details about how to install premium feature keys). Figure 15-5 the correct premium feature has been obt...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 457 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-6 selection of the fde drives the next check is to ensure that the physical disks are fde drives and are secure capable. In figure 15-7 on page 458, you can see that ...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 458 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-7 array created with fde drives with disk security disabled 15.3.2 secure key creation to create the secure key, select, in the top left corner of the ibm syste...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 459 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-8 create security key you must have your ds3500 subsystem password set to proceed, and you might see the message shown in figure 15-9 if the existing password be cons...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 460 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-10 enter your password to continue with the creation of the security key fill in the empty form as shown in figure 15-11 on page 461.
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 461 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-11 empty form for security key generation.
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 462 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the window shown in figure 15-12 opens, where you need to complete the fields. A file name and pass phrase is required to complete. Security key identifier is optional. I...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 463 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-13 save security key file tip: the best practice is to store the security key file with your key management policies along with the pass phrase. It is important to re...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 464 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide when the process is complete, the key is created and located as specified; also, as shown in figure 15-14 the security identifier is displayed. There are three items that...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 465 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm 15.3.3 enable disk security on array now that the keys have been created, disk security can now be enabled on the array. Right-click the array and select secure drives, as show...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 466 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the array is now secured, as indicated by the padlock in a locked position, as shown in figure 15-17. Figure 15-17 array is now secured with disk security enabled 15.4 ad...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 467 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-18 confirm change security key.
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 468 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the window shown in figure 15-19 opens and you are prompted to add a security identifier (optional), a location to store the key file in, and a pass phrase. Figure 15-19 ...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 469 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm when the security key has been successfully changed, a confirmation window opens, as shown in figure 15-20, where the new key file location and security key identifier are show...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 470 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide you will be prompted for the location to store the file and the pass phrase used to create or change the existing security key file, as shown in figure 15-21. The ds3500 ...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 471 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm the secure erase process is shown in figure 15-23. Figure 15-23 secure erase process secure erase can only be performed on drives that are not allocated to an array. The proces...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 472 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the locked state will rarely be seen, that is, only when the array containing the disks have been moved to another ds3500 or controllers have been replaced. The drive bec...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 473 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm save the security key file, as discussed in 15.4.2, “save security key file” on page 469. Obtain blank canisters or new drives to be inserted in the ds3500 when the drives are ...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 474 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-25 preparation checklist for security reason you will be asked to verify this selection figure 15-26 figure 15-26 confirmation to export array during execution ...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 475 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-27 degraded status of the array when the process has completed, the wizard will indicate that the drives can be removed, as shown in figure 15-28. Figure 15-28 export...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 476 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-29 array now exported figure 15-30 array disks now offline now you can carefully remove the exported drive array. It may be a good idea to switch the locate lig...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 477 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-31 drive properties show no key details and no security feature enabled the ds3500 storage subsystem will also indicate that it needs attention due to the locked stat...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 478 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 15.6.1 unlock drives prior to importing the array, all drives must be unlocked. This procedure is performed on one disk, but will then be applied to all disks.The example...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 479 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm when the correct key file is selected and the pass phrase is entered, all the drives will be successfully unlocked, as shown in figure 15-35. Figure 15-35 fde drive unlock comp...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 480 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-37 introduction to import the array.
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 481 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm the import array panel, shown in figure 15-38, gives details about the disks that will be imported. You need to check that all the disks that are displayed are correct and that...
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7914fde.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 482 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 15-39 confirms the importation of the drives. Figure 15-39 import completed the logical drives in the newly imported array are now ready to be mapped to hosts, whe...
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Chapter 15. Disk security with full disk encryption drives 483 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914fde.Fm figure 15-40 secure drives again we suggest that you change the key after a secure array is imported to a ds3500 storage subsystem when it already has secure arrays. This will ...
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 485 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage in this chapter, we describe how to use ibm remote support manager (rsm) for storage with the ibm ds3500 storage subsystem. 16.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 486 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 16.1 ibm remote support manager for storage the ibm remote support manager for storage (rsm for storage) software is a no-charge software package that is installed on an ...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 487 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm the rsm for storage user interface allows you to control and view the status of four management areas: system configuration reporting remote access internal firewall your contact perso...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 488 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide other ibm servers you may use other system x servers that meet the requirements listed below: 512 mb memory. 20 gb disk space. Serial port: the serial port must be on the...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 489 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm rsm for storage software receives snmp traps from the event monitor included with the storage manager. Rsm for storage software cannot be installed on the same system used to manage yo...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 490 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the ds-rsm model rs3 is based on the system x3550 m3 type 7944 server. The server is preloaded with novell sles 10 and rsm for storage software. An internal modem is avai...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 491 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 16.1.4 how rsm for storage works rsm for storage uses an ethernet connection for problem reporting and a modem (optional) for remote access by ibm service, as shown in figure 16-4. The...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 492 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide after rsm is installed, configured, and activated, here are the steps in a sample scenario for rsm. See figure 16-4 on page 491 to understand the flow: 1. For example, an...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 493 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm additional contacts can be configured for subsystems located at other sites. They only receive notifications related to subsystem problems. See table 16-1 for information about the not...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 494 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide # rsm state: nc # rsm zip: 00000 # rsm country: united states # rsm contact name: max musterman # rsm contact phone: 11234567890 # rsm contact hours: 7am - 6pm # rsm cont...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 495 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm the event code was: 5005 the event message was: place controller offline. Controller. Controller in slot b.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 496 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide daily status e-mails serve as a heartbeat notification that the rsm for storage system is operational. This includes the summary status for the system and status for aler...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 497 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm firewall status notifications are sent when the internal firewall is enabled or disabled by a root or admin user, as shown in example 16-4. Example 16-4 firewall notification rsm for s...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 498 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide rsm and storage manager e-mail alerts storage manager in the management station can be configured to send e-mail notifications when a problem is detected. However, this f...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 499 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm you can also choose to allow remote access by both methods. More information about setting up and using an ssh connection is available in the ibm remote storage manager for storage pla...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 500 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide under system configuration, there are links at the top of the page that provide a summary status of the rsm system. Depending on the status, various icons might be displa...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 501 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm the person identified as the primary contact for the rsm for storage system is notified by e-mail whenever a change in the remote access settings occurs and all state changes are also ...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 502 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide firewall rules that are added for a device that is reporting an alert are removed when the alert is closed on the rsm for storage system. While the internal firewall effe...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 503 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 16.2.1 installing the host os there are various operating systems supported for the rsm host, as shown in “software requirements” on page 488. In our example, we used a red hat linux e...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 504 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 16-7 rsm administration window 2. Click login and enter the user name and password of the rsm administrator. This account is named admin and the password was defin...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 505 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 3. You return to the main menu. The upper right menu contains a logout link. To start the setup, click system, as shown in figure 16-9. Figure 16-9 rsm main menu.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 506 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 4. The system configuration window shows incomplete tasks that need to be accomplished before the rsm system can be used (figure 16-10). Figure 16-10 system configuration...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 507 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm figure 16-12 rsm contact person information 7. The specified contact will be added to the contact list. Multiple contacts can be defined that might be assigned with different storage s...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 508 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 9. Complete the form with the appropriate information and click update configuration, as shown in figure 16-14. Figure 16-14 rsm company information 10.The task company i...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 509 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 11.Complete the form with the appropriate information and click update configuration, as shown in figure 16-15. Figure 16-15 rsm connection information.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 510 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 12.The task connection information in system configuration will be marked ok. Click storage subsystems, as shown in figure 16-10 on page 506. 13.Click select to add to de...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 511 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm click update configuration. Figure 16-17 shows the completed form with sample data. Figure 16-17 rsm storage subsystem information.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 512 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 14.If there is an expansion cabinet attached, the system configuration shows that the configuration is still incomplete. The storage subsytem information must be added fo...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 513 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm figure 16-20 rsm configure storage subsystem continued... 17.A possible selection of the ibm product id you will find in table 16-3. Table 16-3 rsm product ids used for rsm machine typ...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 514 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 18.The storage subsystem will be added to the list of configured storage subsystems, as shown in figure 16-21. Up to 50 storage subsystems and san switches can be added. ...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 515 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm figure 16-22 rsm add other san devices 20.Fill in the description and the management ip address for the san device. After entering the required information, press update configuration ...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 516 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 16-24 rsm add other san devices continued... 22.After entering all the desired information, you can verify the information by pressing the run configuration test b...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 517 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm figure 16-25 rsm run configuration test 23.Click refresh status to see the progress of the test figure 16-26 on page 518.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 518 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 16-26 rsm run configuration test.
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 519 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 24..The results from this test are logged in the activity log. You can access the activity log by using an icon on the kde desktop or you can use the command tail -fn 10000 /var/log/rs...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 520 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 25.After the configuration is updated, go to the main menu, select system, and run the configuration test. When the test is complete, the date and time of the last run is...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 521 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm figure 16-28 rsm add snmp trap receiver if you have an existing snmp infrastructure and there is already an snmp trap destination set, you can add the ip address of the rsm server as a...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 522 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide validate snmp configuration to validate the snmp configuration, select the snmp trap destination and click test to send a test trap to the rsm host (figure 16-29). Figure...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 523 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm to activate rsm, perform these steps: 1. Make sure remote access is enabled. Click remote access in the main rsm window to activate it, if required (as shown in figure 16-30. Descripti...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 524 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 16-31 rsm main menu: configured 16.2.6 remote access security this section will cover how to secure your ibm system storage ds subsystem from unauthorized access. ...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 525 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm modem connectivity adding a modem to one of your systems creates a potential entry point for unauthorized access to your network. Rsm for storage modifies many characteristics and beha...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 526 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in the remote access setting window, you can enable/disable the remote access service and enable/disable the option to automatically enable the remote access when an aler...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 527 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm remote access also has a configurable timeout between 12 to 96 hours. You can manually disable remote access when the service is complete or allow it to time out. After the timeout per...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 528 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide in the internal firewall and service access window, you can change the internal firewall status and service access mode of your managed storage subsystems, as shown in fi...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 529 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm similar to remote access, you can also modify the service access timeout. To set the service access timeout, go to the manage service access section in the internal firewall and servic...
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 530 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 16-35 rsm storage subsystem with alerts 3. The alert list for the selected storage subsystem (figure 16-36) shows all alerts that were received by rsm. Click view ...
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Chapter 16. Ibm remote support manager for storage 531 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914rsm.Fm 4. The alert details and an error message are shown in figure 16-37. Figure 16-37 rsm alert details.
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7914rsm.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 532 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. The alert list of the selected storage subsystem shows the modified status of an alert, as shown in figure 16-36 on page 530. When the problem is solved, click close. ...
Page 557: Command-Line Interface(Cli)
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 533 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) in this chapter, we explain the basics of the command-line interface (cli) that can be used to manage an ibm system storage ds3500. Along w...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 534 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 17.2, “running the cli” on page 536 “general smcli syntax” on page 538 “adding a storage subsystem to the storage manager configuration” on page 542 “showing defin...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 535 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm 17.1 how to use the command line interface the commands that you run on the cli provide access to the script engine, specify the storage subsystem to receive the script commands, and set o...
Page 560: 17.2 Running The Cli
7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 536 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 17.2 running the cli there are two ways to enter commands into the ds3500: interactively, using smcli, or by creating saved scripts with the scripting editor. We d...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 537 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm figure 17-3 tools menu 4. The script editor contains an online help that describes the use of each of the available commands. Select help command reference to display the online help (figu...
Page 562: 17.3 General Smcli Syntax
7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 538 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 17.3 general smcli syntax the following table lists the conventions used in the command statement syntax to manage the storage subsystem table 17-1 command name sy...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 540 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide table 17-2 smcli parameters option description e-or-ip-address> ip address or fully qualified domain name of the first and second controller management port. Ip ad...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 541 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm -o specify the file that will contain the output. Errors will be sent to the standard error output, which is usually the console. Use redirection when required. The output will not appende...
Page 566: Configuration
7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 542 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide we now show some specific examples of using the cli for tasks that have already been demonstrated using the gui earlier in this book. 17.4 adding a storage subsyst...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 543 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm 17.5 showing defined subsystems in the storage manager configuration option -d of the smcli gives a list of defined storage subsystems. There are additional parameters that can be used tog...
Page 568: 17.6 Configuring Alerts
7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 544 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 17.6 configuring alerts this section describes how to manage alert recipients. 17.6.1 defining the mail server and e-mail address to send out the e-mail alerts to ...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 545 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm to define an e-mail recipient for an in-band or out-of-band managed storage subsystem, specify the parameter -r followed by direct_sa or host_sa for out-of-band or in-band managed systems,...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 546 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide out-band@nile.Rivers.Local all in-band storage subsystems in-band@nile.Rivers.Local [alert settings - specific devices] storage arrays: ds3524 ds3524-a.Rivers.Loca...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 547 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm amazon:~ # smcli -a trap:out-band,nile.Rivers.Local -r direct_sa smcli completed successfully. Amazon:~ # smcli -a trap:global,nile.Rivers.Local smcli completed successfully. Amazon:~ # 17...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 548 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide set logicaldrive ["hudson-1"] logicalunitnumber=0 host="hudson"; set logicaldrive ["hudson-2"] logicalunitnumber=1 host="hudson"; to execute this script file (outs...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 549 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm set show start stop suspend the cli provides help when a command is not entered completely. Follow the script editor online help or the cli online help to get details about each command. 1...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 550 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide // note: these statements are wrapped in on-error continue and on-error stop statements to // account for minor differences in capacity from the drive of the stora...
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Chapter 17. Command-line interface(cli) 551 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914appcli1208.Fm set logicaldrive["san_boot_salza"] modificationpriority=high; show "creating logical drive-to-lun mapping for logical drive san_boot_salza to lun 0 under host salza."; set logicaldrive ["s...
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7914appcli1208.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 552 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
Page 577: Windows Sas Configuration
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 553 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter in this chapter, we describe and explain a sample configuration that shows how to connect ...
Page 578: 18.1 Equipment Required
Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 554 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 18.1 equipment required we used the following hardware and software components for this configuration: ibm bladecenter e ibm bladece...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 555 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm 18.2.1 installing windows server 2008 follow the operating system installation instructions that are available for each ibm bladecenter bla...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 556 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. Press to enter the lsi logic configuration utility, as shown in figure 18-2. Figure 18-2 sas expansion card - lsi logic configura...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 557 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm figure 18-4 sas expansion card - lsi logic config utility adapter selected record the worldwide port name (wwpn) of the first port on the s...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 558 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 18-6 sas expansion card - lsi logic config utility adapter confirmation 18.2.4 hs21 sas expansion card device driver in this ...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 559 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm connect the cables from the ds3500 storage system controllers a and b to the external port# 4 and 1 of the two sas connectivity modules, as...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 560 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide to update the connectivity-module firmware to the latest version, complete the following steps: 1. Log on to the sas connectivity mo...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 561 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm figure 18-9 sas connectivity module - update firmware 3. In the firmware file field, enter the new firmware file name, or click browse and ...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 562 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 18-11 sas connectivity module - update successful 18.2.7 configuring the sas connectivity module ensure that the external por...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 563 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm from the bladecenter advance management module web interface gui, select i/o module tasks admin/power/restart to ensure that the external p...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 564 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide you can select from five predefined zone configuration options. In this example, option 5 predefined zone configuration is currently...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 565 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm the following example in figure 18-14 was captured from the sas connectivity module web interface. It lists the basic zone permission table...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 566 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide we will install ds storage manager 10 utilities, because this will allow us to run the hot_add utility and hence avoid the necessity...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 567 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm when the utility completes, you will be able to use the disk management applet in the computer management utility and configure the disk sp...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 568 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 18-17 creating a new partition this launches the new simple volume wizard. 3. Follow the process under guidance of the wizard...
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Chapter 18. Windows sas configuration guide for ibm bladecenter 569 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm sas configuration guide for windows on ibm figure 18-18 new partition on the logical drive 4. We can now access the logical drive on the ds3500 as drive letter e:. We show this in fi...
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Sas configuration guide for windows on ibm bladecenter.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 570 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
Page 595: With Ds3500
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 571 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 in this chapter, we describe a sample configuration to attach a ds3500 server to microsoft win...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 572 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 19.1 overview of a failover cluster a failover cluster is a group of independent servers, or nodes, that are physically connected by a...
Page 597: Ds3500 Storage Configuration
Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 573 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm should be identical. It is required that the multipath i/o (mpio) software and device specific module (dsm) software components be identical. I...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 574 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-2 define host group 4. Select the mapping tab, select define from mapping menu and select host as shown in figure 19-3 on pa...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 575 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-3 define hosts 5. Add the defined hosts to the host group to share the storage resources between the hosts and for failover as shown ...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 576 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-4 add hosts to the host group 6. Create the host group-to-logical drive mapping. Select the host group created in previous s...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 577 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-5 create host group-to-logical drive mapping 7. Select the logical drives and assign the logical unit numbers (luns) that the host gr...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 578 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-7 host group-to-logical drive mapping 19.3 installing ds storage manager host software we will install the host server compo...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 579 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-8 multipath driver installation follow the wizard instructions to complete the installation. Reboot your server after the reboot, ope...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 580 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 19.4 windows server 2008 failover clustering this guide describes the steps for installing and configuring a failover cluster that has...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 581 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-10 enabling the failover clustering 3. Confirm installation selection and click install to enable the failover clustering feature as ...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 582 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-11 confirm installation selection 4. Ensure that the failover clustering feature is installed successfully as shown in figur...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 583 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-12 installation succeeded 19.4.2 validate a configuration before creating a cluster, we strongly recommend that you validate your con...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 584 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-13 the failover cluster manager 2. Confirm that failover cluster management is selected and then, in the center pane under m...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 585 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-14 validate a configuration 3. Follow the instructions in the wizard to specify the two servers and the tests, and then run the tests...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 586 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-15 testing options 4. The failover cluster validation report shows the successful validation of our configuration as shown i...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 587 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-16 failover cluster validation report 19.4.3 create a cluster after a successful validation of the cluster configuration, we can star...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 588 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-17 create a cluster follow the instructions in the wizard to specify: the servers to include in the cluster. The name of the...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 589 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm 19.4.4 quorum configuration in the following we will configure the quorum options, add the second node and configure the first cluster resource...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 590 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-20 add disk resources figure 19-21 summary of storage.
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 591 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm 3. Select configure cluster quorum settings by right clicking the cluster (in our example w2k8cluster.Cluadmin.Local) and selecting more action...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 592 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-23 select quorum configuration 5. Select the storage volume (in our example, cluster disk 3) that you want to assign as the ...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 593 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-24 configure storage witness 6. Confirm the quorum configuration as shown in figure 19-25 on page 594 and click next note: the witnes...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 594 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-25 confirmation of quorum configuration 7. Verify the cluster quorum settings as shown in figure 19-26 and click finish to c...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 595 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm now we can add the second node and only then we will have formed true redundancy and a valid cluster. Figure 19-27 add the second node the wiza...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 596 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-28 ha wizard 7. Click file server as shown in figure 19-29, and then click next. Figure 19-29 select service or application:...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 597 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-30 specify a name and an ip address 9. Select the storage volume or volumes that the clustered file server should use as shown in fig...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 598 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-32 file server configured successfully 11.The figure 19-33 shows our just created file server cluster in failover cluster ma...
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 599 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm 12..In the console tree, make sure services and applications is expanded, and then select the clustered file server that you just created. 13.U...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 600 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 19-35 create share 16.The figure 19-36 on page 601 shows the summary of the file server cluster with configured share folders..
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Chapter 19. Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500 601 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm figure 19-36 file server cluster with configured share folders 17.File server comes online. If it does not, review the state of the networks an...
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Microsoft cluster configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 602 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
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© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 603 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide in this chapter, we discuss sample configurations to show how to configure suse linux enterprise server 11 to access a logical drive from ...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 604 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 20.1 ds3500 sas storage configuration on sles 11 using rdac in this section we discuss how to add a logical drive to an sles 11 using ds3500 sas storage using rdac m...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 605 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm download the latest multipath driver from the ibm support web site. Read carefully the multipath driver readme file to see which kernel version is supported with that driver. Install the ...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 606 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-2 enter on yes to access expert partitioner b. Press enter on hard disks select a partition edit as shown in figure 20-3. It is necessary to repeat this st...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 607 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-4 select fstab options d. Select device id and press f10 to finish as shown in figure 20-5 figure 20-5 select device id verify the boot order in mpt sas bios to boot from the lo...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 608 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-6 press ctrl-c b. In this case we have a sas1064e sas adapter with the local hard disks and a sas1064 sas adapter with the external storage. Select the sas...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 609 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-9 click on expansion card c. Then click on ports tab to see the sas address for each sas adapter port as shown in figure 20-10 figure 20-10 click on the ports tab to see the sas...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 610 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 20.1.2 installing the rdac multipath driver in this section we discuss how to install the rdac multipath driver in suse linux enterprise server 11 we downloaded in 2...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 611 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm title suse linux (2.6.27.19-5-default) with mpp support root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000c500009c6dcb-part2 splash=silent resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 612 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide available types, because this is the part of the configuration dealing with heterogeneous host support. Each operating system expects slight variations in settings a...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 613 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm example 20-3 directory structure created by rdac multipath driver /proc/mpp/ds3524-fc/controllera/mptsas_h0c0t2/lun0 /proc/mpp/ds3524-fc/controllera/mptsas_h0c0t1/lun0 /proc/mpp/ds3524-fc...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 614 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 aug 12 07:07 scsi-35000c500009c6dcb -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 aug 12 07:07 scsi-35000c500009c6dcb-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrw...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 615 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm numlunobjects: 2 roundrobinindex: 0 path #1: lunpathdevice: present devstate: optimal removestate: 0x0 startstate: 0x1 powerstate: 0x0 path #2: lunpathdevice: present devstate: optimal re...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 616 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide the virtual hba driver creates virtual disks to represent the array luns, which the linux os disk target driver "sd" will attach to. The array devices are then addre...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 617 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-14 hardware setup the following are recommendations to do before mapping the logical drives. Check the compatibility in ibm system storage interoperation center(ssic) web site h...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 618 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-15 iscsi network subnets use udev by-id specification in /etc/fstab file. A detailed procedure is shown before in 20.1.1, “preparing for the installation” ...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 619 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-16 press enter key to install the necessary packages 3. The initiator name is automatically generated by suse. This is the initiator name that storage manager will discover. Sel...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 620 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide targets and select add as shown in figure 20-18 to add each controller port. Each port will be a path to the logical drive. Figure 20-18 select add to add each stora...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 621 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-20 iscsi target authentication on ibm storage manager 7. Select connect button to login to the iscsi storage as shown in figure 20-21 on page 622..
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 622 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-21 select connect to login 8. Configure the authentication settings as in step 6) and select next to continue as shown in figure 20-22. Figure 20-22 select...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 623 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-23 all the iscsi host ports connected 10.For each connected target select toggle start-up to keep the connection after rebooting the server as shown in figure 20-24. It means th...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 624 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide indentifies the host and this will be used for mapping the lun in ibm system storage manager. This name is specified also in the /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.Iscsi file....
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 625 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1992-01.Com.Lsi:2365.60080e50001b0e9a000000004c5b68d7, portal: 192.168.130.101,3260] logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1992-01.Com.Lsi:...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 626 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. Now verify that the disk configuration is correct. A detailed verification procedure is shown in 20.1.4, “scan and verify the storage logical drive” on page 612 n...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 627 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm 20.3 ds3500 fc san boot configuration for sles 11 server using rdac in this section we discuss how to configure an hs21 bladeserver to be able to boot from a ds3500 storage subsystem usin...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 628 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-26 use the cursor to select the hba c. In the fast!Util options screen, select configuration settings and press enter. D. In the host adapter settings scre...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 629 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-28 press f1 to enter bios configuration menu b. Select devices and i/o ports as shown figure 20-29. Figure 20-29 select devices and i/o ports c. Disable planar sas as shown in f...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 630 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-30 disable planar sas 5. One of the most important things to consider when booting from a fc storage subsystem, in this case ds3500, is that when installin...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 631 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-31 temporary zoning configuration to boot from storage follow these steps to do the proper san zoning configuration in a qlogic switch. This will enable us to install a suse lin...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 632 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 20-32 qlogic san switch b. Click on zoning to edit the zoning configuration. C. Click on zoneset to create a new zoneset called bootzone. D. Right click on th...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 633 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm figure 20-33 final zoning configuration 6. When the zoning is correctly done, you will be able to map the logical drive using the procedure in chapter 11, “administration - mappings tab” ...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 634 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide after finishing the installation install the multipath driver as shown in 20.1.2, “installing the rdac multipath driver” on page 610 and modify the zoning configurat...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 635 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm 20.4 ds3500 fc storage configuration on sles 11 using dmm in this section we discuss how to attach a ds3500 logical drive to a suse linux enterprise server 11 using device mapper multipat...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 637 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm regarding zoning configuration, ensure that: – multiple fibre channel hba’s within the same server must not able to discover the same ds3500 controller port. – each fibre channel hba are ...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 638 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide multipaths: specifies configuration settings for tuning create the /etc/multipath.Conf file as shown in example 20-12. Example 20-12 multipath.Conf file sample multi...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 639 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm create and map luns to the host(s) as shown in chapter 11, “administration - mappings tab” on page 281. 20.5 scan and manage the storage logical drive to scan for new devices run the foll...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 640 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide command (m for help): n command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p partition number (1-4): 1 first cylinder (1-15360, default 1): using default value 1 la...
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Chapter 20. Suse linux configuration guide 641 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm linux config.Fm after flushing the paths, use the multipath command with no options to add back mappings for the devices. The same command with the -f parameter can be used to remove a single device mapp...
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Linux config.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 642 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
Page 667: Aix 6.1 Configuration Guide
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 643 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide in this chapter, we discuss sample configurations to show how to configure aix 6.1 to access a logical drive from a ds3500 storage subsystem. For this...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 644 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 21.1 planning for the installation proper planning is always a crucial step in every configuration, and here we list some important considerations: aix host attachment to the...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 645 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm physical location: u78a5.001.Wih1752-p1-c10-t1 example 21-2 wwn from aix # lscfg -vl fcs0 fcs0 u78a5.001.Wih1752-p1-c10-t1 fc adapter network address.............2100001b3208e0ab ros level and id.......
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 646 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide to implement san boot on a new system, you can: – start the aix installation from a bootable aix cd install package. – use the network installation manager (nim). The methods...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 647 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm planning for single virtual i/o server the figure 21-1 on page 647 shows the recommended scenario for a single virtual i/o server solution. This scenario was not supported previously for rdac because...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 648 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide disk. Because of this, a failure of a single disk will only impact the single client partition using that disk. If using san storage, the virtual i/o server can use a lun for...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 649 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm two different client partitions. Each client partition has two virtual scsi adapters. Each client virtual scsi adapter connects to a different virtual i/o server. The client partition uses mpio to pr...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 650 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide q_type simple queuing type true queue_depth 10 queue depth true reassign_to 120 reassign time out value true reserve_policy no_reserve reserve policy true rw_timeout 30 read/...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 651 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm adapter driver waits a short period of time, approximately 15 seconds, so that the fabric can stabilize, this occurs when the default setting of “delayed_fail” is set. At that point, if the fc adapte...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 652 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 21.3 setting up the ds3500 logical drives and host mapping map the logical drive(s) to the aix operating system by using the normal procedure as described in chapter 11, “adm...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 654 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide enabled hdisk2 fscsi1 enabled hdisk2 fscsi1 enabled hdisk2 fscsi0 missing ses1 sas1 enabled hdisk2 fscsi0 missing ses2 sas1 possible values that can appear for the status col...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 655 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm # smitty mpio path management change/show path characteristics change/show characteristics for device’s path. Type a valid mpio device name or select it from the list and afterwards, type or select a...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 656 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2. Map logical drive from the ds3500 to the aix server 3. Type the following command from a terminal window on the aix server: # smitty alt_clone afterwards, type the target ...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 657 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm ibm...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 658 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide port - 5 ibm host ethernet adapter: u78a5.001.Wih1752-p1-t6 1. Bootp 2. Iscsi 6. Select the ip parameters menu option as shown in example 21-21. Example 21-21 select the ip p...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 659 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm 10.Select bootp protocol as shown in example 21-25. Example 21-25 select the bootp menu option select network service. Port - 5 ibm host ethernet adapter: u78a5.001.Wih1752-p1-t6 1. Bootp 2. Iscsi 11...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 660 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide tftp-retries: 5 packet count = 9000 14.After the setting these parameters, continue with the actual aix installation as documented in 21.5.4, “aix operating system installati...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 661 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm example 21-31 press “2” to change the installation settings welcome to base operating system installation and maintenance type the number of your choice and press enter. Choice is indicated by >>>. >...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 662 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 2 preservation install preserves some of the existing data on the disk selected for installation. Warning: this method overwrites the usr (/usr), variable (/var), temporary (...
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Chapter 21. Aix 6.1 configuration guide 663 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm aix.Fm example 21-36 aix installation installing base operating system please wait... Approximate elapsed time % tasks complete (in minutes) 9. Change the zoning configuration to make all the paths availabl...
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Aix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 664 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
Page 689: Vmware Esx Server and Ds3500
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 665 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration the ibm ds3500 storage system is designed to deliver reliable performance for mixed appli...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 666 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 22.1 introduction to ibm vmware storage solutions many companies consider and employ vmware virtualization solutions to reduce it...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 667 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with 22.2 san zoning configuration as recommended by vmware, we set up four paths between the server and the storage system as shown in figure ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 668 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 22.3 ds3500 storage configuration as a first step, you need to configure your storage on the ibm ds3500 storage subsystem. Comple...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 669 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-3 lun mapping for vmware installation 22.3.1 mapping luns to a storage partition in this section, we provide notes about lun map...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 670 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-4 scanning for fiber devices if you do not see a ds3500 controller, verify the cabling, switch zoning, and lun mapping....
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 671 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with 22.4 installing the vmware esx server in this section, we provide the procedure and details that are related to installing the vmware esx ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 672 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-5 press ctrl + q or alt + q to get qlogic fast!Util menu 2. Select the first qlogic card entry. Press enter, as shown i...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 673 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-7 hba configure settings 4. In figure 22-8, select adapter settings. Press enter. Figure 22-8 hba adapter settings 5. Highlight ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 674 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-9 hba adapter bios enabled 6. On figure 22-10, press the esc key twice to exit, and select save changes when prompted. ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 675 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-11 selecting additional hba adapters configuring the server raid to configure the server raid, at the prompt during reboot, pres...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 676 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-12 esx install initial panel 2. At the welcome panel, figure 22-13 on page 677, click next..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 677 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-13 esx welcome screen 3. On the end user license agreement window, figure 22-14 on page 678, accept the license terms, and click...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 678 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-14 esx end user license agreement 4. On the keyboard selection panel, figure 22-15 on page 679, select the keyboard typ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 679 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-15 esx keyboard selection 5. On the custom drivers panel, figure 22-16 on page 680, if needed, install any custom device drivers...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 680 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-16 esx custom drivers 6. On the load drivers window, figure 22-17 on page 681, click yes..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 681 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-17 esx load drivers confirmation the drivers load process continues. Click next to continue. 7. During driver load you will see ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 682 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-18 esx driver load 8. On the licensing panel, figure 22-19 on page 683, enter the serial number now, or you can enter t...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 683 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-19 esx license information 9. On the network configuration panel, figure 22-20 on page 684, from the drop-down menu, select an a...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 684 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-20 esx console network adapter 10.On the network configuration panel, figure 22-21 on page 685, enter the appropriate n...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 685 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-21 esx network configuration 11.Select the test there settings option to confirm correct network connectivity. See figure 22-22 ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 686 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-22 esx test network settings 12.On the setup type panel, figure 22-23 on page 687, if custom partitions configurations ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 687 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-23 esx setup type 13.Esx storage device panel, figure 22-24 on page 688. In our example we have one local harddisk and two san a...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 688 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-24 esx storage device 14.If vmware finds an existing installation, you will get a warning about it. You have the possib...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 689 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-25 esx device content warning 15.On the time zone settings panel, figure 22-26 on page 690, select the appropriate time zone, an...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 690 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-26 esx time zone settings 16.On the date and time panel, figure 22-27 on page 691, select date and time manually..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 691 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-27 esx date and time settings 17.Or you can enter an ntp server. See figure 22-28 on page 692. Under http://www.Pool.Ntp.Org/en/...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 692 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-28 esx ntp server selection 18.On the set administrator password panel, figure 22-29 on page 693, type the administrato...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 693 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-29 esx administrator password 19.On the summary panel, figure 22-30 on page 694, review the configuration. Click next..
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 694 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-30 esx summary installation panel 20.The esx installation starts copying files, as shown in figure 22-31 on page 695..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 695 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-31 esx installing 21.After the installation is complete, figure 22-32 on page 696, click next..
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 696 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-32 esx installing completed 22.On the esx 4.1 installation complete panel, figure 22-33 on page 697, click finish..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 697 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-33 esx installation completed the vsphere server reboots. You can now plug the fibre channel san connections back in, if you ins...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 698 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 23.The boot screen follows like in figure 22-35 figure 22-35 esx boot sequence 24.After the vmware esx server startup is complete...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 699 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-37 connecting to esx server 2. Click add an extension. Figure 22-38 is presented to acquire the ssl certificate. Click get certi...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 700 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-39 esx vsphere server webpage 3. Click download vsphere client to start the setup package on the system that will be us...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 701 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-41 esx client installation - welcome panel 6. On the end/user patent agreement panel figure 22-42 click next figure 22-42 vmware...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 702 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-43 esx client installation - license agreement 8. On the customer information panel, figure 22-44, enter organizational...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 703 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-45 esx client installation - installing 10.After the installation is completed, click finish. See figure 22-46. Figure 22-46 esx...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 704 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-47 esx vsphere client 12.For now, ignore the certificate warning (figure 22-48) by clicking ignore. Figure 22-48 esx vs...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 705 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-49 esx vsphere client - initial administrative interface 14.The summary panel, figure 22-50 on page 706, for the newly created v...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 706 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-50 esx vsphere client - summary panel 22.4.4 post-install server configuration the procedure in this section must be pe...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 707 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-51 permit root login 5. Exit with esc and to save your changes enter at command line : wq for write/quit see figure 22-52 figure...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 708 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-53 sshd restart 7. Type logout , and press alt-f11 to return to your vmware screen. 22.4.5 configuring vmware esx serve...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 709 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-55 esx server - configuration tab 3. In the hardware section, select storage and add storage, as shown in figure 22-56 on page 7...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 710 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-56 esx server - storage selection 4. You are presented with the storage type selection panel. Select disk/lun to create...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 711 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-57 storage type selection 5. On figure 22-58, select the san fibre channel lun on which you want to create the datastore vmfs pa...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 712 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-59 disk layout 7. On figure 22-60, enter a descriptive name for the datastore, for example, vmware_datastore, and click...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 713 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-61 lun formatting 9. Figure 22-62 is a summary panel for adding the storage. Click finish to proceed. Figure 22-62 adding storag...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 714 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-63 vsphere client window 11.Repeat the same task for additional san fibre channel luns. Assigning additional physical n...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 715 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-64 esx virtual switch 2. Select properties for the vswitch0, and then select the network adapters tab. Click add..
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 716 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-65 adding network adapters 3. Add vmnic1, for example (this is the next adapter), and click next next finish. See figur...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 717 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-66 adding second network adapter 4. You are presented with the main vswitch0 properties panel. Highlight the 1st adapter, click ...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 718 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-67 setting network speed note that there might be a refresh problem, and you will get extra lan adapter entries. Close ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 719 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-68 add networking 2. Select virtual machine as the connection types, and click next, as shown in figure 22-69 on page 720..
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 720 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-69 connection type 3. Pick one of the remaining lan adapters (in this case vmnic0), as shown in figure 22-70 on page 72...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 721 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-70 selecting network access 4. On the network label, type network 0, as shown in figure 22-71, and click next finish. Figure 22-...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 722 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. Use the properties option of each switch, and configure the ports to 100 mbps full duplex or 1000mbps. 22.4.7 creating virtual...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 723 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-72 new virtual machine 3. On the select the appropriate configuration panel, select custom, as shown in figure 22-73 on page 724...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 724 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-73 configuration type 4. In the virtual machine name field, type the name of the guest os as it is registered in the dn...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 725 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-74 virtual machine name 5. Select the datastore vmfs partition where the guest files reside (note that all configuration files i...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 726 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-75 datastore vmfs partition 6. Select the virtual machine version, based on your requirements, as shown in figure 22-76...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 727 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-76 virtual machine version 7. Select the guest operating system vendor and the corresponding version. In our example, we use mic...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 728 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-77 guest operating system selection 8. On the number of vcpu, select 1 unless you are requiring multi-cpu kernel (this ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 729 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-78 vcpu selection 9. On the memory allocation panel, figure 22-79 on page 730, provide the guest with the necessary amount of me...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 730 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-79 memory allocation 10.On the choose networks panel, figure 22-80 on page 731, select the appropriate number of networ...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 731 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-80 network selection 11.On the scsi controller types panel, figure 22-81 on page 732, select the controller that is based on the...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 732 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-81 vm scsi controller type 12.On the select a disk panel, figure 22-82 on page 733, select: – create a new virtual disk...
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 733 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-82 select a disk 13.If you selected the create a new virtual disk option, allocate the disk size (this will be the size of the ....
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 734 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-83 create a disk 14.On the specify advanced options panel, figure 22-84 on page 735, click next..
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Chapter 22. Vmware esx server and ds3500 storage configuration 735 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm vmware esx server storage configuration with figure 22-84 advance options 15.On the summary panel, figure 22-85 on page 736, click finish. You can see the progress in the recent tasks...
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Vmware esx server storage configuration with ds3500.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 736 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure 22-85 summary screen 16.You are now ready to perform the guest operating system installation. 22.4.8 additional vmware esx...
Page 761: Ibm Support Portal Web Site
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 737 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm appendix a. Ibm support portal web site in this appendix, we explain how to use the ibm support portal web site to obtain downloads and support information for the ibm ...
Page 762: Sample Navigation Procedure
7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 738 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide sample navigation procedure the following steps show, as an example, how to navigate the ibm support portal page to find software downloads for a ds3500...
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Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 739 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm figure a-2 search for ds3500 3. Click on the checkbox beside the ds3500 (ds3512, ds3524) and then click the view your page link as shown infigure a-3. Figure a-3 select the ds35...
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7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 740 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure a-4 ibm support portal ds3500 5. Down the left hand-hand side of this page, there is a choose your task function, as shown in figure a-5. You use...
Page 765: Download Code Updates
Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 741 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm download code updates 1. From the choose your task list (figure a-5 on page 740), click the downloads link. A webpage similar to the one shown in figure a-6 will be displayed. F...
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7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 742 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide figure a-7 select fixes b. If you do not have an ibm id, or you are not currently signed in to the ibm support portal then you will see the web page as ...
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Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 743 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm figure a-9 ibm registration 3. When you are signed in to the ibm support portal using your ibm id, you will see the code download options as shown in figure a-7 on page 742. Tic...
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7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 744 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. If you choose to download using download director then you will see the download director window as shown in figure a-12. Figure a-12 download files ...
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Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 745 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm figure a-15 download files using http when using this option, you will need to click on each link to save the file to your local disk..
Page 770: My Notifications
7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 746 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide my notifications the ibm my notifications web site can be used to keep you informed of the latest firmware updates and other important product updates. ...
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Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 747 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm 2. The sign in window appears, as shown in figure a-8 on page 742. Enter your ibm id and password in the sign in area to sign in and proceed. If you are not currently registered...
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7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 748 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide 5. Click on disk systems and you will be presented with a list of the ibm disk storage systems as shown in figure a-19. Figure a-19 my notifications - d...
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Appendix a. Ibm support portal web site 749 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm figure a-20 my notifications - setup 7. You will see the web page as shown in figure a-21when you have completed the my notifications setup. Figure a-21 my notifications - succe...
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7914ibmsupportportal-0109.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 750 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide.
Page 775: Related Publications
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 751 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914bibl.Fm related publications the publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable for a more detailed discussion of the topics covered in this book. Ibm redbooks for inf...
Page 776: How to Get Redbooks
7914bibl.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 752 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide http://www.Ibm.Com/systems/support/storage/disk ibm ds3000, ds4000, ds5000, and bladecenter boot disk system premium feature activation http://www.Ibm.Com/storage/fasttk...
Page 777: Ibm System Storage Ds3500:
T o dete rmine the spine w idth of a b ook, y ou divide the p aper ppi in to the n u mber of pages in the book. A n e x ample is a 250 pag e book using plainfield opa que 50# smooth which ha s a ppi of 526. Divided 250 b y 526 which equa ls a spine widt h of .4752" . In this case , y ou w ould use t...
Page 778: Ibm System Storage Ds3500:
(2.0” spine) 2 .0” 2.498 ” 1052 131 4 pages (2.5” spine) 2 .5”nnn.N ” 131 5 -> nnnn page s t o dete rmine the spine w idth of a b ook, y ou divide the p aper ppi in to the n u mber of pages in the book. A n e x ample is a 250 pag e book using plainfield opa que 50# smooth which ha s a ppi of 526. Di...
Page 779: Index
© copyright ibm corp. 2010. All rights reserved. 755 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ix.Fm index a about ibm system storage ds 339 ac power led 16 access logical drive 25 access logical drive 24, 358 access lun 294 activate controller firmware 372 activate rsm 522 activate the ...
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7914ix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 756 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide clear registrations/reservations 413 clear storage subsystem 426 cli 27, 533 cli online help 549 cluster installation 587 cluster node 287 collect all support data 339 col...
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Index 757 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ix.Fm download director 743 download drive firmware 389 download drive firmware 377 download esm configuration settings 377 download esm firmware 377 download firmware 338, 362, 365, 370, 376 download nvsram 375 download nvsram file wit...
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7914ix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 758 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide failover clustering 580 failover clusters 580 fan-out expanders 6 fast!Util 628, 669 fault led 16 fc cable types 3 fc protocol layers 3 fde 73, 449 fde drive status 466, 4...
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Index 759 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ix.Fm icmp 326 icmp echo 328 ignored event notifications 497 import array 407–408, 479 import completed 410 import secure drive array 476 import security file key 267 importing an array 407 inactivity time-out 207 in-band 23 in-band 545...
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7914ix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 760 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide logical tab 225 logical unit number 281 logical unit numbers (luns) 63 logical unit numbers (luns) 577 logical volume manager (lvm) 74 logical volumes (lvs) 75 lsi logic c...
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Index 761 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ix.Fm nvsram 337, 357, 382, 386, 611 nvsram file 367 nvsram firmware 363 nvsram microcode 357 o offline state 428 ok to remove led 16 online help 215, 446 online transaction processing (oltp) 31 operating status 200 operations in progre...
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7914ix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 762 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide remote access 500 remote access 487 remote access 276 remote access by modem 498 remote access by ssh 498 remote access notifications 493 remote logical drive mirroring 20...
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Index 763 draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 7914ix.Fm set baseline 331 set degraded 414 set during loop initialization (127) 276 set password 210 setup tab 305–306 seven-segment led 47 sfp 4 sfp module 95 sfp transceivers 4 show fde 265, 456 simple network mail protocol (snmp) 419 si...
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7914ix.Fm draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm 764 ibm system storage ds3500: introduction and implementation guide target ethernet port 319 target identification 319, 323 target wwpn 563 targets 9 task assistant 162 tcp listening port 620 tcp offload engine (toe) 8 telnet 276 terminati...
Page 790: Ibm System Storage
® sg24-7914-00 isbn draft document for review march 28, 2011 12:24 pm international technical support organization building technical information based on practical experience ibm redbooks are developed by the ibm international technical support organization. Experts from ibm, customers and partners...