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Before using this online manual Preface Chapter 1 Overview of Virtual Storage Conductor 1.1 Virtual Storage 1.2 Virtual Storage Conductor 1.2.1 Purpose of providing VSC 1.2.2 Objectives of VSC 1.3 VSC Configuration 1.4 Supported Environments 1.4.1 Supported hardware 1.4.2 Supported software 1.5 Outline of VSC Functions 1.5.1 Virtual disk function 1.5.2 Server-free data service function 1.5.2.1 Migration function 1.5.2.2 Replication function Chapter 2 Operation Design 2.1 Resources for Configuring Virtual Disks 2.1.1 Virtual storage pool 2.1.2 Physical disk 2.1.3 Virtual enclosure 2.1.4 Virtual target 2.1.5 Virtual disk 2.2 Designing Storage 2.2.1 Guidelines for physical disk capacities 2.2.2 RAID group of physical disks 2.2.2.1 Notes on assigned CM 2.2.3 Physical disks you want to virtualize 2.2.4 Physical disks you do not want to virtualize 2.2.5 Physical disks that you cannot virtualize 2.3 Designing Virtualization Switches 2.3.1 Configuration of connections to storages and servers 2.3.2 Multi-path configuration of virtual disks 2.4 Designing Physical Resources Chapter 3 Building an Environment 3.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Setting Up the Operation Admin Server 3.1.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Building a cluster environment for the admin server 3.1.2 Environmental settings for each node 3.1.2.1 Modifying system configuration files 3.1.2.2 Creating a configuration data file 3.1.2.3 Creating a commit script 3.2 [Windows]Setting Up the Operation Admin Server 3.2.1 [Windows]Building a cluster environment for the admin server 3.2.2 Environmental settings for each node 3.2.2.1 Modifying system configuration files 3.2.2.2 Creating a configuration data file 3.2.2.3 Creating a commit script 3.3 Setting Up a Virtualization Switch 3.3.1 Setting the IP address of a virtualization switch 3.3.2 Setting the management information of a virtualization switch 3.4 Security Settings 3.4.1 Protecting physical disks 3.4.1.1 Using the zoning function of a virtualization switch 3.4.1.2 Using the host table settings mode of ETERNUS and GR 3.4.2 Protecting virtual disks Chapter 4 Startup and Settings 4.1 Starting and Closing the Virtual Storage Window 4.1.1 Starting the Virtual Storage Window 4.1.2 Closing the Virtual Storage Window 4.2 Setting and Starting the SMI Agent 4.3 Registering Virtualization Switches 4.4 Registering a Storage Device Chapter 5 Operations 5.1 Creating a Virtual Disk 5.1.1 Creating a virtual storage pool 5.1.2 Registering physical disks 5.1.2.1 Registering all physical disks under a storage 5.1.2.2 Registering the physical disks in the range of AffinityGroup (Zoning) 5.1.2.3 Registering individual physical disks 5.1.3 Creating a virtual disk 5.1.3.1 Creating the virtual disk automatically 5.1.3.2 Creating a virtual disk while checking the physical disk constituting the virtual disk 5.1.3.3 When the user selects the physical disks to constitute a virtual disk 5.1.4 Creating a virtual enclosure 5.1.5 Creating a virtual target 5.1.6 Assigning virtual disks to the virtual target 5.1.7 Copying a virtual target 5.1.8 Batch conversion 5.1.9 VS900 management area 5.1.9.1 Creating a VS900 management area 5.1.9.2 Displaying a VS900 management area 5.2 Deleting Resources 5.2.1 Releasing virtual targets 5.2.2 Deleting virtual targets 5.2.2.1 Deleting virtual targets individually 5.2.2.2 Deleting multiple virtual targets simultaneously 5.2.3 Deleting virtual enclosures 5.2.3.1 Deleting virtual enclosures individually 5.2.3.2 Deleting multiple virtual enclosures simultaneously 5.2.4 Deleting virtual disks 5.2.4.1 Deleting virtual disks individually 5.2.4.2 Deleting multiple virtual disks simultaneously 5.2.5 Releasing physical disks 5.2.5.1 Releasing physical disks in units of storage devices 5.2.5.2 Releasing physical disks individually 5.2.6 Deleting virtual storage pools 5.2.6.1 Deleting virtual storage pools individually 5.2.6.2 Deleting multiple virtual storage pools simultaneously 5.2.7 Deleting VS900 management area 5.3 Changing the Resource Status 5.3.1 Adding capacity to the virtual disk 5.3.1.1 Adding capacity automatically to the virtual disk 5.3.1.2 Adding capacity while checking the physical disk on which you want to slice capacity 5.3.1.3 When the user selects the physical disk to slice capacity 5.3.2 Changing VTHL 5.3.3 Changing the resource name 5.4 Migration 5.4.1 Selecting the migration destination physical disk automatically 5.4.2 Selecting the migration destination physical disk while checking the physical disk 5.4.3 When the user selects the migration destination physical disk 5.4.4 Precautions on using migration 5.5 Checking the Copy Status 5.5.1 Polling interval of copying 5.5.2 Stopping copying 5.5.3 Deleting display if a copy error occurs 5.5.4 Changing migration 5.5.5 Operating the backup disk 5.5.5.1 Deleting backup disks 5.5.5.2 Restoring from the backup disk 5.6 Copy History List Chapter 6 Maintenance 6.1 Maintenance Menu of Virtual Storage Window 6.1.1 Stopping VSC Engine 6.1.2 Re-creating configuration information 6.1.3 Setting a trace level 6.1.4 Editing a BOX-ID 6.1.5 Displaying the initiator information of a virtualization switch 6.2 Saving and Restoring the Configuration Information 6.2.1 Configuration information types 6.2.2 Saving the configuration information 6.2.2.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Saving the configuration information 6.2.2.2 [Windows]Saving the configuration information 6.2.3 Restoring the configuration information 6.2.3.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Restoring the configuration information of VSC Manager 6.2.3.2 [Windows]Restoring the configuration information of VSC Manager 6.2.3.3 Restoring the configuration information of a virtualization switch 6.3 Collecting Data 6.3.1 Troubleshooting data for VSC Engine 6.3.2 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Troubleshooting data for VSC Manager 6.3.3 [Windows]Troubleshooting data for VSC Manager 6.3.4 Troubleshooting data for an admin client 6.4 Viewing Logs 6.4.1 Logs of VSC Manager 6.4.1.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]System log 6.4.1.2 [Windows]System log 6.4.1.3 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Copy log 6.4.1.4 [Windows]Copy log 6.4.2 Logs of Virtual Storage Window 6.5 Functional Restrictions 6.5.1 Restrictions during replacement of a virtualization switch 6.5.2 Restrictions during upgrading of virtualization switch firmware Appendix A Window Explanation and Menu List A.1 Window Configuration A.1.1 Configuration and functions of the menu bar A.1.2 Common operations in the window A.2 Explanation of the Windows under "View and Create" A.2.1 Displaying the virtual storage pool (root node) A.2.2 Displaying the capacity (graph) A.2.3 Displaying the virtual storage pool A.2.4 Displaying the virtual disk A.2.5 Displaying the virtual enclosure (root node) A.2.6 Displaying the virtual enclosure A.2.7 Displaying the virtual target A.2.8 Displaying the virtual disk A.3 Explanation of Windows under "Copy" A.3.1 Displaying copy inquiry A.3.2 Displaying the migration backup disk list A.3.3 Displaying the copy history list A.4 Explanation of Windows under "Maintenance" A.4.1 Displaying initiator details Appendix B Admin Server Commands B.1 [Solaris OS/Linux OS]Admin Server Commands B.1.1 getvsw Command B.1.2 setvscetrclvl Command B.1.3 startrep Command B.1.4 finishrep Command B.1.5 cancelrep Command B.1.6 getsession Command B.1.7 remakeconf Command B.2 [Windows]Admin Server Commands B.2.1 getvsw Command B.2.2 setvscetrclvl Command B.2.3 startrep Command B.2.4 finishrep Command B.2.5 cancelrep Command B.2.6 getsession Command B.2.7 remakeconf Command Appendix C Commands for Virtualization Switch C.1 vscefieldsetnow Command C.2 vscecreateconfigfile Command C.3 vsceportset Command C.4 vscestopengine Command Appendix D Limit Values D.1 Virtual Storage Resources D.2 Server Connected to a Virtualization Switch D.3 Storage Connected to a Virtualization Switch Appendix E Error Messages E.1 VSC Manager E.2 Virtual Storage Window E.3 VSC Engine Appendix F Single-Switch Operation of Virtualization Switch F.1 Overview of Single-Switch Operation of Virtualization Switch F.2 System Configuration for Single-switch Operation F.3 Creating Virtual Storage Resources F.3.1 Creating virtual storage pools F.3.2 Registering physical disks F.3.3 Creating virtual enclosures F.4 Using the Copy Function F.5 Changing the Operation Mode Glossary of Virtual Storage Terms