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# mount /dev/vg01/lvol1 /mnt/lvol1

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Specify the settings required for using virtual environments.
If you are using Xen, set up Xen to use HDLM devices in domainU. If you

are using KVM, register HDLM devices into the hardware configuration

file.
For details on operating environments for the virtual environments

supported by HDLM, see

Virtual Environments Supported by HDLM on

page 3-87

. For details on how to set up a virtual environment, see

Settings for Xen on page 3-205

or

Settings for KVM on page 3-207

.

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Specify the settings required for operations in a cluster configuration.
For a cluster configuration, change the logical device file names of SCSI

devices specified in the cluster to logical device file names of HDLM

devices.
For details on setting the cluster software, see

Settings for Heartbeat on

page 3-208

,

Settings for Oracle RAC on page 3-208

,

Settings for the

RHCM on page 3-211

, or

Settings for VCS on page 3-213

.

Disk Replication OS Installation

This subsection explains how to use the Master Image Deployment

functionality of Hitachi Compute Systems Manager (Compute Systems

Manager) or the disk replication functionality of Deployment Manager to

replicate an environment to which HDLM has been installed. Also, see the

Compute Systems Manager manual as necessary.

This method can be used in the following environment:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Important

When creating a disk image file on the replication-source host, be sure to

reduce the number of LUs recognized by the replication-source host to 256 or

less. You can increase the number of LUs to the maximum number of LUs

that can be supported by HDLM on the replication-destination host after

distributing the disk image file to the replication-destination host.

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (using LABEL for the kernel parameter)

The following procedure shows how to use LABEL for the kernel parameter for

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5:

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Back up the replication-source host.
Use the System-level Backup functionality of Compute Systems Manager

or Deployment Manager to back up the replication-source host so that

you can restore the replication-source host after replication or in the

event that an installation error occurs for the disk replication OS.

Creating an HDLM Environment

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