Delete and add buttons, Apply and cancel buttons, Assigning, canceling, and migrating aliases – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual
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Delete and Add Buttons
The Delete and Add buttons are located between the Alias Volume List and Free Volume List, allow
you to delete/cancel existing alias devices that are assigned to base devices and add/assign new
alias devices to base devices.
Description
Button
Cancels aliases for a selected base device. When you click
Delete, the selected alias devices are canceled, and their
LDEV IDs are displayed in the Free Volume List box. To
complete canceling the aliases as specified, you must click
Apply.
Delete
Assigns aliases to selected base devices. When you click
Add, the selected free LDEV IDs are assigned to the selected
base devices, and the new alias devices are displayed the
Alias Volume List box. To complete your request to assign
the new aliases as specified, you must click Apply.
Add
Apply and Cancel Buttons
The Apply and Cancel buttons are located in the lower right corner of the Compatible PAV window,
allow you to apply or cancel the requested Compatible PAV operations for the XP24000/XP20000
disk arrays.
describes the Apply and Cancel buttons.
Table 7 Apply and Cancel Buttons
Description
Button
Applies the settings made on this window to the XP24000/XP20000 disk arrays. When you
select this button, a message appears to ask you whether you want to apply your request to
the storage system.
NOTE:
When switching LDKCs to set multiple LDKCs, click Apply for each LDKC to reflect
the operation for LDKC setting to the subsystem. The setting will be invalid if the LDKC is
switched to another LDKC before clicking Apply.
Apply
Discards any changes and restores the initial settings.
Cancel
Assigning, Canceling, and Migrating Aliases
Assigning Aliases
Before you assign Compatible PAV aliases, you should have determined the required number of
aliases for each base device to meet your operational requirements (see
Compatible PAV Results” (page 14)
). If you assign additional aliases after starting I/O operations
to the storage system Compatible PAV devices, you will need to redefine the storage system
Compatible PAV devices to the host operating system.
You can assign up to 255 aliases to one base device. The Compatible PAV assign alias function
pairs each selected base volume with one or more of the selected free volumes. If the number of
selected free volumes is larger than the number of selected base volumes, this function attempts to
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Performing Compatible PAV Operations