Purpose of This Manual
This manual explains the method of managing/using the VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes environment using FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser (hereafter abbreviated as "Storage Cruiser") or FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager (hereafter abbreviated as "AdvancedCopy Manager").
Intended Readers
This manual targets the following administrators/users who use Storage Cruiser and AdvancedCopy Manager:
Storage system administrators who use Virtual Volumes
Storage system users who use Virtual Volumes (Virtual machine administrators/users)
Structure of This Manual
The structure of this manual is as follows.
This chapter explains an overview of VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes.
This chapter explains the design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of the storage systems that use Virtual Volumes.
This chapter explains the operation of virtual machines that use Virtual Volumes by Virtual machine administrators/users.
This chapter explains how to use each command.
Conventions
This manual abides by the conventions listed in "Conventions" in the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map.
In this manual, the conditions and rules for managing virtual machines and Virtual Volume are called "policy". When showing the policy for vSphere Web Client, it is written as "VM Storage Policies".
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Revision History
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Notes
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This manual is subject to change without advance notice.
Copyright Notice
Copyright 2015-2020 FUJITSU LIMITED
Content of Update | Updated Section | Revision |
|---|---|---|
In "Virtual Machine (Connecting Disk Configuration)" of "Design of Storage System", the condition related to the controller of virtual disks comprising the virtual machine has been added. | 2.1.2.1 | 7.2 |
Information related to the following storage device has been added.
| General | 7.1 |
The redundant sentence in the subheading "Creation of Clone Backup VVOL Datastore" has been deleted. | 2.3.3 | |
[Note] has been added. | 2.4.1 | |
Information related to Model Upgrade from the following storage devices has been added.
| 2.5.5 | |
Information related to the following storage devices has been added.
Information related to the following software has been deleted.
| General | 7 |
The description for Conventions has been changed so that the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map is referenced. | "Conventions" in Preface | |
The "Manual Organization and Reading Suggestions" section has been deleted from Preface. | Preface | |
The version information of ETERNUS VASA Provider has been modified. | 1.3 | |
The subheading "Data Integrity" has been added. | 2.4.1 | |
Information related to Windows Server 2019 has been added. | "Notation" and "Others" in Preface | 6.1 |
In [Note] in the "System Configuration", information has been added. | 2.1.1 | |
[Point] has been added in "Management Server Redundancy" of "Operational Management Environment Redundancy". | 2.1.1 | |
In [Point] in the "Volume for Snapshot backup", information has been added. | 2.1.2.1 | |
In [Point], information has been modified. | 2.3.2 | |
In [Point] in the "Save Generations and Backup History", information has been added. | 2.4.1 | |
Information related to the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface, 1.3, 2.3.2 | 6 |
In [Note], information has been added. | 2.4.6 | |
Information related to Solaris 9 has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | 5 |
Information related to the ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 S4 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface, 1.3 | |
Information related to the ETERNUS AF250 S2/AF650 S2 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface, 1.3 | |
In [Point], information has been modified. | 2.1.1 | |
In [Note], information has been added. | 2.1.1, Chapter 3 | |
[Information] has been added. | 2.5.4 | |
The explanation about backing up and restoration of ETERNUS VASA Provider has been modified. | 2.5.4.1 | |
The explanation about collecting Troubleshooting Information for ETERNUS VASA Provider has been modified. | 2.5.4.2 | |
Information related to Windows Server 2016 has been added. | "Notation" and "Others" in Preface | 4 |
Information related to Windows Vista has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | |
Information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 has been deleted and information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface | |
Information related to the ETERNUS DX100 S4/DX200 S4 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface, 1.3 | |
The description has been modified so that Windows Server 2016 is listed. | 2.2.2 | |
[Point] has been added. | 2.3.2 | |
In [Note] in the "Creation of VVOL Datastore", information has been added. | 2.3.3 | |
Information related to HP-UX 11i v1/v2 has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | 3 |
Information related to VMware vSphere 4 has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | |
Information related to the ETERNUS DX80/DX90 has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | |
Information related to the ETERNUS AF250/AF650 has been added. | "Notation" and "Others" in Preface, 1.3 | |
Unnecessary information has been deleted. | 2.1.1, 2.1.2.1, 2.2.3, 3.3.1.1 | |
[Point] has been added. | 2.1.1 | |
The explanation related to the Automated Storage Tiering policy has been modified. | 2.1.2.2 | |
In [Point], information has been modified. | 2.3.2 | |
New section has been added. | 2.5.5 | |
The explanation of Meaning in the table "VVOL Access Path Status List" has been modified. | 2.3.2 | 2.1 |
A note related to Windows dynamic disks has been added to [Note]. | 2.4.2, 3.5.4 | |
Information that is not restored from Clone backup has been added to [Note]. | 2.4.2, 3.6.1 | |
Information related to Windows Server 2003 has been deleted. | "Notation" in Preface | 2 |
Information related to Windows 10 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface | |
A note has been modified. | 1.2 | |
The table of Operating Environment has been modified. | 1.3 | |
A see has been modified. | 2.1.2.1 | |
"Auto Execution by External Scheduler" has been added. | 2.4.1.3 | |
A point has been added. | 2.3.2, 3.3.1.1, 3.3.2.1 | |
"Command References" has been added. | Chapter 4 | |
Information related to the ETERNUS DX8700 S3/DX8900 S3 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface, 1.3 | 1.2 |
The optional license name has been modified. | 1.3 | |
The description of the upper limit of Tier pools that can be managed by Automated Storage Tiering has been added. | 2.1.2.2 | |
The term "VMware Virtual Volumes" has been changed to "VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes" according to the terms used by VMware, Inc. | Throughout this manual | 1.1 |
Information related to VMware vSphere(R) 6 has been added. | "Notation" in Preface | |
The terms of "policy" and "VM Storage Policies" have been added. | "Others" in Preface | |
"VVOL Access Path Management", "VVOL Datastore Configuration Management" and "Virtual Machine Backup" have been modified. | 1.2 | |
"Operating Environment" table has been modified. | 1.3 | |
Information has been added. | Chapter 2 | |
Point and note in "System Configuration" have been modified. | 2.1.1 | |
"Virtual Machine Backup Policy" table has been modified. | 2.1.2.1 | |
Item in "Automated QoS Policy" table has been renamed. | 2.1.2.3 | |
Table of policies has been added. | 2.1.2.4, 2.1.2.5 | |
Information has been added. | 2.1.2.5 | |
Note has been added. | 2.2.1 | |
Procedure has been modified. | 2.2.2 | |
"FC Switch" has been modified. | 2.2.3 | |
"Virtual Volume Type" table has been modified. | 2.3.1 | |
"VVOL Access Path Status List" table has been modified. | 2.3.2 | |
Point and note in "Creation of VVOL Datastore" have been added. | 2.3.3 | |
Point has been modified. | 2.3.6 | |
Table of policy and point have been added. | 2.3.7, 2.3.8 | |
"Cache Management" has been added. | 2.3.9 | |
"Policy Settings to Create Backup" table has been added. | 2.4.1 | |
Table of the method of restoring has been modified. | 2.4.2 | |
Attribute of temporary volume has been modified. | 2.4.2, 3.5.4 | |
Description of secondary backup has been added. | 2.4.6 | |
The backup and restore procedure when the Management Server is constructed on a virtual machine has been added. | 2.5.4.1 | |
Note has been added. | Chapter 3 | |
"Preparatory Work" has been added. | 3.1.2 | |
The vSphere Web Client operating procedure has been modified. | 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4.1, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.5 | |
"Validation of Policy Function" has been deleted. | 3.3 | |
Point has been modified. | 3.3.1 | |
The descriptions of Operation Mode, Number of Snapshot Generations, and Clone Backup in the Property List table have been modified. | 3.3.1.1 | |
"Property List" table has been modified. | 3.3.1.2, 3.3.1.3, 3.3.1.5 | |
"When Changing the Policy for Only One Virtual Machine" and "When Changing the Policy All at One Time" have been added. | 3.3.2 | |
"Virtual Machine Backup" has been added. | 3.3.2.1 | |
"Automated Storage Tiering (Advanced)" has been added. | 3.3.2.2 | |
"Automated QoS (Advanced)" has been added. | 3.3.2.3 | |
"Cache (Advanced)" has been added. | 3.3.2.4 | |
"Security (Advanced)" has been added. | 3.3.2.5 | |
The vSphere Web Client operating procedure has been modified. | 3.3.3 | |
"Deletion of Policy" has been added. | 3.3.4 | |
Point and note have been modified. | 3.4.1 | |
"Migration of Virtual Machine" has been added. | 3.4.3 | |
The conditions to execute Single item restore have been listed. | 3.5.4 | |
Note has been modified. | 3.6.1 |
