HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 14)

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Managing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Accessing Information About Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Filtering Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
About Volumes on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Creating a Storage Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Deleting a Storage Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Changing the Cache Block Size for a Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Modifying the Cache Settings (Engenio and Sun 6130 Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Rules for Creating Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Managing Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Accessing Information About Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Creating Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Editing Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Deleting Host Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Setting the Host Mode for IBM Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
General Provisioning Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Provisioning Can Make a Device Inaccessible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Provisioning Does Not Make an Operating
System Aware of a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Provisioning Issues by Vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Issues Specific to CLARiiON Storage Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Make the Management Server a Privileged User
for CLARiiON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
EMC Navisphere CLI Is Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Issues Specific to EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
About Provisioning on EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
LUN Provisioning Is Not Supported with Solutions Enabler 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
“Process Has an Exclusive Lock” Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Some EMC Volumes, Their LUNs and LUN Maskings Are Hidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Issues Specific to HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
About Provisioning on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Host Security Group Names on HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Unable to Provision When HDS CruiseControl Is Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Increasing the Wait Time for the Management Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Initiator Ports Cannot Be Used for Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
The Software Is Unable to Map a Host to Volumes
in Different Host Storage Domains of the Same Port
on HDS 9900V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
A Default LUN Number Is Used Instead of a User-Specified One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Issues Specific to HP Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Size Reported as 0 on EVA Array Volumes of 1 GB or
More (Correct Size is Reported After Running Get All
Details on EVA Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Cannot Always Delete Selected Volume on MSA, MSA Allows Deletion of Only Topmost or
Last Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Issues Specific to Engenio Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Creating and Deleting Storage Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380