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A path will be established in the HDLM device and the HDLM manager will

start.

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If you have edited the /etc/fstab file as described in

Operations

Required for Devices to Be Managed by HDLM on page 3-75

in

Preparations for a New Installation of HDLM on page 3-75

, add the line

show below to change the setting from a SCSI device specification to an

HDLM device specification.
The Linux functionality that adds LABEL= to a SCSI device is not

supported in HDLM. Do not use this functionality.
An example of how to edit the /etc/fstab file is shown in the following

figure:

Add the shaded line shown in the above figure.

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Specify the settings required for using LUKS.
Perform this step if your host OS uses LUKS. If HDLM manages a SCSI

device that has been configured to use LUKS, the LUKS settings must be

migrated from the SCSI device to an HDLM device.
For details on setting up LUKS, see

Settings for LUKS on page 3-152

.

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Specify the settings required for using md devices.
If you want to use md devices, create them in a multi-path environment.
For details about the md device settings, see

Settings for md Devices on

page 3-154

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Specify the settings required for using the volume management software.
If the logical volume created with the volume management software is

already being used, replace it with a logical volume whose physical

volume is an HDLM device.
For details on setting the volume management software, see

Settings for

LVM2 on page 3-166

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Specify the settings required for using virtual environments.
When using Xen, set it up to use HDLM devices in domainU. When 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 3-67

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

Settings for Xen on page 3-175

or

Settings for KVM on page 3-177

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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.

Creating an HDLM Environment

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