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Create a storage entry – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Table 17 Storage types

Use this storage type

And your storage configuration is...

If your logical server will be active
on...

SAN Storage Entry

SAN, with RDM disk presented to ESX
VM Host

Server with Virtual Connect and ESX
virtual machine (cross-technology
logical server)

SAN Storage Entry

SAN

Server with Virtual Connect

SAN Catalog Storage Entry

SAN configured with Storage
Provisioning Manager

Server with Virtual Connect

SAN Pre-populated Catalog Storage
Entry

SAN configured with Storage
Provisioning Manager, with volumes
pre-presented to WWNs

Server with Virtual Connect

SAN Storage Entry

SAN, with RDM disk presented to ESX
VM Host

ESX virtual machine

File (VM) Storage Entry

File (residing on local drive, SAN, or
iSCSI)

ESX virtual machine

File (VM) Storage Entry

File (residing on local drive, SAN, or
iSCSI)

Hyper-V virtual machine

File (VM) Storage Entry

SAN physical [whole] disks, or virtual
disks that are logical volumes created
in a Shared Logical Volume (SLVM)
volume group

Integrity VM virtual machine

SAN Storage Entry

SAN

Operations Orchestration workflow
physical server

SAN Catalog Storage Entry

SAN configured with Storage
Provisioning Manager

Operations Orchestration workflow
physical server

You can define your logical server storage configuration in the following ways:

“Create a storage entry” (page 74)

when you create a logical server.

A storage entry is associated with one logical server. You create a storage entry using the
Create

→Logical Server... Storage Configuration screen, and modify it using the Modify→Logical

Server... storage tab.

“Create a storage pool entry” (page 79)

before or after you create a logical server, and

associate it with the logical server.

Each logical server can be associated with multiple storage pool entries. Multiple logical
servers can share the same storage pool entry.

You create and modify storage pool entries using Modify

→Logical Server Storage Pools....

You can also create a storage pool entry by inserting a storage entry into the storage pool.

You can select catalog storage for the storage pool entry if you preconfigured storage using
HP Storage Provisioning Manager. See

“Storage Provisioning Manager” (page 90)

for more

information.

See

“Using LSMUTIL with logical server storage” (page 96)

for information about using the LSMUTIL

database utility to define storage for logical servers.

Create a storage entry

A storage entry is associated with one logical server.

To create a new storage entry during logical server creation, use the Create

→Logical Server...

menu selection. Complete the required information on the Identity and Compute Resources screens.
The third screen allows you to specify the storage configuration for the logical server.

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Defining storage for logical servers