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HP XP Racks User Manual

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Description

Item

External volume’s top LDEV ID.

Top LDEV ID

External volume’s top LDEV name.

Top LDEV Name

Product ID of Standard Inquiry. This is the name defined by the standard body
that controls SCSI. This name varies according to the storage system vendor.
For example, for HP enterprise storage, this field displays the emulation type.

Device Name

Number of LDEVs created in the external volume.

Number of LDEVs

Capacity of the external volume.

Capacity

Identification number of the external volume.

Characteristic1

The value is used by Ext Stor to identify the LUN across multiple paths. The value
is provided by the external system and may reflect internal numbering.

Identification number of the external volume.

Characteristic2

Information about the external volume’s drive type.

Drive Info

SATA displays when the external volume is a SATA drive of following storage
systems.

P9500

XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array

HUS/AMS/WMS

SMS

Thunder 9500V

SSD displays when the external volume is the SSD of following storage systems.

HP XP7 Storage

HUS VM Storage Platform

P9500

XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array

MP blade IDs allocated to the external volume.

MP Blade ID

Path mode for the external volume’s external path.

Path Mode

Single: Ordinarily, only one external path is used even if alternate paths are
set. Alternate paths are available in case of failure.

Multi: Multiple paths are used at the same time.

ALUA: Like Multi, all paths are used; however, they are not used when
connected to ports in Passive status.

See

“External paths” (page 21)

for more information.

Displays the path mode on the profile information of the external storage system.

Path Mode on Profile

1

Single: Ordinarily, only one external path is used even if alternate paths are
set.

Multi: When alternate paths are set, external paths from several ports are
used simultaneously with load balancing.

Displays whether ALUA can be set as the Path Mode in the external storage
system.

ALUA Settable

1

Enable: Enables ALUA Mode.

Disable: Disables ALUA Mode.

106 External Storage GUI reference

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