HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.0 User Guide

Screen details
For more information about using and interpreting the items displayed in the Network tab, see
“Screen details” (page 29).
Virtual Partition Properties Storage tab
The vPar Properties Storage tab works similarly to the VSP Storage tab. The difference between
the two tabs is that the vPar Properties Storage tab shows only the devices related to a single virtual
partition, whereas the VSP Storage tab shows all the devices (for the VSP and all virtual partitions)
in the Integrity Virtual Server Manager environment.
Quick reference
Figure 38 Virtual Partition Properties Storage tab
1
Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VSP view. If you accessed the Virtual Server
Manager Properties view from Matrix OE visualization, the link returns you toMatrix OE
visualization. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from SMH, the link is not provided.
The link appears whenever you move from one Virtual Server Manager view to another (such
as from VSP view to Virtual Server Manager Properties view, in which case the Go back to
Integrity Virtual Server Manager: Manage VSP link appears on the Virtual Server Manager
Properties view).
2
With the Show physical host bus adapters check box selected (as in this example), the view
includes the complete storage bus structure, host bus adapters, and multipath storage
configurations. This view may take longer to render and can be more challenging for discerning
the associations between virtual partitions and devices, especially when many multipath storage
devices exist on the VSP. By default (the check box being unselected), the view is simpler,
showing only the specific storage devices that are being used as backing devices. For a
multipath device, the simple view shows only the device special file (DSF) path, as specified
when the virtual storage device was created. In contrast, the complex view displays all DSF
versions of the same device, including (on an HP-UX 11i v3 VSP) the persistent DSF. The
complex view is identical to the view displayed by the vPar Properties tab in earlier versions
of Virtual Server Manager.
When you navigate to another Virtual Server Manager view and return to this view again,
the Show physical VSP bus adapters check box retains its state. In other words, if the box is
checked when you navigate away from the vPar Properties Storage tab, it remains checked
when you navigate back (you continue to see the complex view on return). If the box is
unchecked, it remains unchecked when you return (you continue to see the simple view). The
check box state on the vPar Properties Storage tab does not affect the state of the same check
box on the VSP Storage tab. For example, selecting the check box on the vPar Properties
Storage tab does not automatically affect the check box and view of the VSP Storage tab.
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Displays this window in a format suitable for printing.
Virtual Partitions Properties view 61