HP XP7 RAID Manager User Guide Abstract This document describes and provides instructions for using the RAID Manager software to configure and perform operations on the Hitachi RAID storage systems.
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Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................9 About RAID Manager...............................................................................................................9 RAID Manager functions............................................................................................................9 RAID Manager functions matrix.............................................................................................
Logging raidcom command............................................................................................49 User-created files....................................................................................................................52 User environment variable........................................................................................................52 3 RAID Manager functions on the P9500 and XP7 Storage...............................
Example of the configuration definition files when specifying a virtual storage machine by command options.........................................................................................................95 Commands to the virtual storage machine........................................................................96 Operation target when you specify the virtual storage machine by the raidcom command .....97 4 Starting up RAID Manager................................................................
Controlling server performance..........................................................................................138 Checking WWN of host bus adapters...........................................................................138 Setting the priority on host bus adapter..........................................................................139 Checking the status of the prioritized WWN and the non-prioritized WWN settings............139 Setting PFC name for host bus adapter..........................
Overview........................................................................................................................175 Policy ............................................................................................................................176 horcm.conf......................................................................................................................176 Command specifications...........................................................................................
Operational notes and restrictions for RAID Manager operations................................................215 Error messages and error codes.............................................................................................217 System log messages........................................................................................................217 Command error messages ................................................................................................
1 Overview This chapter provides an overview of the RAID Manager software and RAID Manager operations on the HP RAID storage systems. About RAID Manager The RAID Manager software enables you to perform storage system configuration and data management operations by issuing commands to the RAID storage systems.
Table 1 Available RAID Manager functions on each storage system (continued) Function Storage systems XP256 Disk Array XP1024/XP128 XP12000 Disk Disk Array Array XP24000/XP20000 P9500 Disk Array XP7 SRM SRA Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Provisioning (raidcom) Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported Supported Out-of-band method Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported Supported User authentication Not supported Not suppor
Command execution modes RAID Manager provides two command execution modes: transaction mode that executes by specifying a script file with -zt option, and line-by-line mode that executes a command row-by-row for the configuration setting commands (raidcom commands). The transaction mode can execute the following checking. • Context check: This check is executed when a script file is specified by -zt option.
Table 2 Summary of the checking functions (continued) Command syntax Syntax check Context check Config check Execution raidcom -zt
