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4 starting up raid manager, 5 provisioning operations with raid manager – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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3 RAID Manager functions on P9500............................................................48

Command execution using in-band and out-of-band methods.......................................................48
User authentication.................................................................................................................49
Command operation authority and user authentication................................................................49

Controlling User Role..........................................................................................................49
Controlling user resources...................................................................................................50
The commands that are executed depending on the operation authorities managed by Remote
Web Console and the SVP..................................................................................................51

The relationship between resource groups and command operations.............................................53
Resource lock function.............................................................................................................55
Command execution modes.....................................................................................................56

Overview..........................................................................................................................56
Context check....................................................................................................................57

How to check...............................................................................................................57
Details of check contents................................................................................................58

Configuration check...........................................................................................................63

LDEV group function................................................................................................................63

Overview..........................................................................................................................63
Device group definition methods..........................................................................................65
Read operations and command device settings......................................................................66
Device group function.........................................................................................................66

Device group creation....................................................................................................68
LDEV addition to device group........................................................................................68
LDEV deletion from device group.....................................................................................69
Device group deletion....................................................................................................70

Copy group function...........................................................................................................71

Copy group creation.....................................................................................................73
LDEV addition to a copy group.......................................................................................73
LDEV deletion from copy group.......................................................................................74
Copy group deletion......................................................................................................75
Pair operation by specifying a copy group.......................................................................76

Pair operations with volumes for mainframe................................................................................79

Using dummy LU................................................................................................................79
Displayed pair statuses.......................................................................................................80
Multi-platform volumes........................................................................................................81
Differences in replication commands....................................................................................82

4 Starting up RAID Manager........................................................................84

Starting up on UNIX systems....................................................................................................84
Starting up on Windows systems..............................................................................................85
Starting up on OpenVMS systems.............................................................................................86
Starting RAID Manager as a service (Windows systems)..............................................................87

5 Provisioning operations with RAID Manager................................................89

About provisioning operations..................................................................................................89

Overview of the configuration setting command.....................................................................89

Synchronous command processing..................................................................................89
Asynchronous command processing................................................................................89
Asynchronous commands...............................................................................................90

Help on configuration setting commands...............................................................................91
LDEV nickname function......................................................................................................91

Available provisioning operations.............................................................................................91
Available provisioning operation (specifying device group)..........................................................97

Summary..........................................................................................................................97
Operation method.............................................................................................................98

Common operations when executing provisioning operations.......................................................99

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