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Using the provisioning wizard, Testing the configuration, Signing out of smu – HP 2000I G2-Modular-Smart-Array User Manual

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HP 2000i G2 Modular Smart Array User Guide

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Using the Provisioning Wizard

The Provisioning Wizard helps you create a vdisk with volumes, and to map the volumes to hosts. The

wizard has several steps, which are highlighted at the bottom of the panel as you complete them. The last

step prompts you to confirm changes before applying them. If you cancel the wizard, no changes are

made.
To use the wizard, in the Configuration View panel, right-click the system, select Provisioning > Provisioning

Wizard, and follow the online prompts to specify the settings described below. See the online help for

detailed information about the settings.

The vdisk name and RAID level appropriate for the level of fault tolerance that the vdisk’s data will

require. If you select RAID-10 or RAID-50, you can select the number of sub-vdisks to use.

Disks to include in the vdisk. The table specifies the minimum and maximum number of disks to select.

You can also assign spare disks to automatically replace any disks that fail.

Number and size of storage volumes to create in the vdisk. By default, the new vdisk will have one

volume. You can change the number of volumes, and optionally change the default size and base

name for the volumes. To postpone creating volumes, you can change the number of volumes to zero.

Control access to the volumes by mapping them to hosts, or masking them from hosts.

Testing the configuration

To determine that the initial configuration is complete, verify host access to a volume:

1.

In the Configuration View pane, right-click the vdisk and select View > Overview.

2.

From the data host:
a. Create a file system on the volume.
b. Verify that you can access the mapped volume and the volume size shown on the data host matches

the size shown in SMU.

c. Verify that you can write data to the volume.

If the above tests succeed, initial configuration is complete. You can proceed with configuring and

provisioning the system for daily use.

3.

Optionally, unmount the test volume and delete the test vdisk.

Signing out of SMU

If you end a SMU session without signing out, the session automatically ends when the user’s automatic

sign-out time expires. If the preference is set to Never, the session ends after 9999 minutes.

1.

Click Sign Out in the upper right-hand corner.
The Sign Out Request dialog is displayed.

2.

Click Sign Out.