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PRIMECLUSTERGlobal Disk Services Configuration and AdministrationGuide 4.5
FUJITSU Software

M.1.2 New Features in 4.3A10

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Products

Feature

Description

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1

GDS

I/O timeout function

When abnormalities occur to a disk which is mirrored, the disk I/O response delay can be prevented by suppressing the retry process of the device driver.

"1.2.5 I/O Timeout"

2

GDS Snapshot

Snapshot by OPC for stripe type and concatenation type volumes

Working in cooperation with the Advanced Copy function OPC (One Point Copy) of ETERNUS Disk storage system, GDS Snapshot creates snapshots of stripe type and concatenation type volumes.

3

GDS

Enforced cancellation of a system disk mirroring (sdxsystem command)

In the UFS boot environment, when abnormalities occur to a system and the system disk mirroring cannot be cancelled by the usual method, the setting information of the system disk mirroring can be deleted.

4

GDS

Confirmation tool for a system disk mirroring cancellation (sdxrootck command)

In the UFS boot environment, it can be confirmed whether the settings of the system disk mirroring and root class are cancelled completely.

5

GDS

Shortening the restoring time of the I/O error status of a disk

When clearing the I/O error status of a disk with the sdxfix -D command, the processing time can be shortened by specifying the -x NoRdchk option.

6

GDS

Improvement on a system disk setting related error message

In system disk settings of GDS Management View, if all slice numbers on the system disk are in use, the error message (5014) which shows a cause and a resolution are displayed.

Message 5014 in "E.5.1 Error Messages (5000-5099)"

7

GDS

Disk resource registration check

With a PRIMECLUSTER system, if an attempt is made to register a disk that is not in the cluster resource database with a new class from the Class Configuration screen in GDS Management View, a warning message is displayed.

Message 5148 in "E.5.2 Warning Messages (5000,5100-5199)"

GDS: Global Disk Services
GDS Snapshot: Global Disk Services Snapshot