When creating physical servers, it was difficult to smoothly provide servers as configuration of storage units and the storage network was necessary.
Using the following functions of Resource Orchestrator, servers can be provided smoothly.
By coordinating VM management software and storage management software, the information of RAID groups and aggregates are automatically detected as virtual storage resources.
From the detected virtual storage resources, virtual storage meeting L-Server specifications is automatically selected.
To use storage from an L-Server, configure storage units and a storage network.
Prerequisites When Configuring L-Servers Using Physical Servers
When using a physical server as an L-Server, it is necessary that connection using HBA address rename or VIOM is supported. For details on connection using HBA address rename or VIOM, refer to the defining the storage environment and configuring the storage environment sections of the "ServerView Resource Coordinator VE Setup Guide".
For L-Server SAN storage paths, multipath (two paths) is supported.
Configurations with more than three HBA ports on managed servers are not supported.
L-Server supports SAN boot configuration.
In the case of blade servers, only configurations where FC cards are mounted in expansion slot 1 are supported.
In the case of blade servers, please do not set the following parameters during setup of VIOM.
WWN Address Range
MAC Address Range
Regarding Storage Configuration
Resource Orchestrator manages a single SAN environment. Multiple SAN environments are not supported.
Storage cannot be used as cluster shared disks.
A single storage unit can be connected to an L-Server.
Configuration | System Disk | Data Disk |
|---|---|---|
1 | SAN storage | SAN storage |
For details on required VM management software and storage management software, refer to "1.3.2.2 Required Software".
For details on supported storage units and Fibre Channel switches, refer to "1.4 Hardware Environment".
For details on configuration of storage networks and storage configuration, refer to "1.5 System Configuration".
For details on storage environment settings, refer to "1.8 Required Storage Unit Environment and Configuration When Using Storage Units from an L-Server on a Physical Server".
