Batch conversion is a function that enables a transition from a physical environment to a virtual environment in a procedure with fewer steps.
The following operations must be performed prior to batch conversion:
Creating a virtual storage pool
Creating a virtual enclosure
The following operations are automatically executed:
Registering a physical disk
Creating virtual disks
Creating a virtual target
Assigning the virtual disks to the virtual target
Open the "Convert" dialog box using one of the following methods:
From the Composition Data tree area, select the virtual storage pool in which you want to register a physical disk and click the <Convert> button, or
Select the virtual storage pool in which you want to register a physical disk, then select [Operation] - [Convert], or
Right-click the virtual storage pool in which you want to register a physical disk and select [Convert].
The "Convert (Select Virtual Enclosure)" dialog box appears.
Select the virtual enclosure in which you want to create a virtual target.
Click the <OK> button in the "Convert(Select Virtual Enclosure)" dialog box.
Before registering the disk, display the related management window of the disk unit and confirm that the disk unit information has been updated. Select physical disk registration. The following confirmation dialog box appears.
If you do not want this message to be displayed again, select the check box and click the <OK> button.
The "Convert (Register Physical Disk)" dialog box appears. For details of the settings, refer to "5.1.2 Registering physical disks".
The "Batch Conversion" confirmation dialog box appears. Click the <OK> button.
The "Batch Conversion" dialog box shows the batch conversion results. Click the <Close> button and confirm that the disk has been successfully registered.
The above operations create virtual disks from the physical disk registered in the specified virtual storage pool, create a virtual target in the specified virtual enclosure, and assign the virtual disks to the virtual target.
"Virtual-storage-pool-name + R + sequence-number" is the name assigned to the created physical disk.
"Virtual-storage-pool-name + V + sequence-number" is the name assigned to each created virtual disk.
"CA + CA-port-WWPN (16 digits) + sequence-number-of-virtual-enclosure (4 digits) + sequence-number (5 digits)" is the name assigned to the created virtual target.
Note
If one CA of a storage unit has multiple Affinity groups, only the physical disks in one of the Affinity groups can be subject to batch conversion.
If you have performed batch conversion in an incorrect host mode, contact your Fujitsu systems engineer (SE) and perform batch conversion again as follows:
Unassign virtual disks from the virtual target.
Delete the virtual target.
Delete the unassigned virtual disks.
Release the physical disk that constitutes the virtual disk from the virtual storage pool.
Perform batch conversion again.
