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Configuration tasks, Advanced functions – Accusys ExaRAID GUI User Manual

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Advanced Functions

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ports, fcpa2 and fcpb2. For all LUNs, the green path is the active path to
the controller A, and the red path is the standby path to the controller B.

The steps to set up the active-passive and active-active connections are
almost the same. You simply need to specify all the LUNs to the same
preferred controller in the RAID GUI.

The Configuration Tasks table shown below details each configuration
task according to the example given in Figure 5-10.

Configuration Tasks

Tasks

Instructions

Create Virtual volumes and
specify the preferred
controller

RAID Management > Disk Groups >
Create DG0 and DG1

RAID Management > Logical Disks >
Create DG0LD0 > Specify the
preferred controller as ctla

RAID Management > Logical Disks >
Create DG1LD0 > Specify the
preferred controller as ctla

Select Storage Provisioning
method

RAID Management > Storage
Provisioning > Symmetric

Figure 5-10 Active-Passive Redundant Single MPIO host

FCP1

FCP2

FCPa2

FCPa1

FCP1

FCP2

FCPb2

FCPb1

DG0LD0

DG1LD0

WWPN

WWPN

HBA1

HBA0

Host

Host Group 0

Controller B

Controller A