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PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services  Configuration and AdministrationGuide 4.6
FUJITSU Software

G.1.4 New Features in 4.3A30

No.

Products

Feature

Description

For details

1

GDS

System disk mirroring on a VMware guest

On a VMware guest, system disk can be mirrored in UEFI boot environments with RHEL6 (Intel64) or later.

- "1.2.1.1 System Disk Mirroring [EFI]"

- "K.1 Guidelines for GDS Operation in the Virtual Environment"

2

GDS, GDS Snapshot

Virtual disk (VMDK) on a VMware guest is supported

On a VMware guest, virtual disk (VMDK) can be managed in a root class and a local class.

- "K.1 Guidelines for GDS Operation in the Virtual Environment"

- "K.4 Use of GDS in a VMware Environment"

3

GDS

virtio-SCSI device is supported

On a KVM guest, virtio-SCSI device can be managed in a local class and a shared class.

- "K.1 Guidelines for GDS Operation in the Virtual Environment "

- "K.3 Use of GDS in a KVM Environment [4.3A10 or later] "

4

GDS, GDS Snapshot

Cancellation of restriction in local and shared classes of GPT label

The following functions are supported in local and shared classes of GPT label.

- Mirroring

- Concatenation

- Striping

- sdxconfig command

- Changing the physical slice attribute value of volume

- GDS Snapshot

"A.2.5 Disk Label"

5

GDS, GDS Snapshot

Mirroring and snapshot for 1 TB or larger volumes

Mirroring and snapshot creation are available for 1 TB or larger volumes.

"A.2.7 Volume Size"

6

GDS Snapshot

Snapshot creation with QuickOPC of ETERNUS Disk storage system

Snapshot can be created with the Advanced Copy function of ETERNUS Disk storage system such as QuickOPC.

- "1.5.3 Instant Snapshot by OPC"

- "5.1.3.3 Backup (by OPC)"

- "5.3.2.3 Backup (by OPC)"

- "6.4 Online Backup and Instant Restore through Proxy Volume "

- "D.15 sdxproxy - Proxy Object Operations"

7

GDS Snapshot

Snapshot creation with ETERNUS Disk storage system REC function

Snapshot can be created with ETERNUS Disk storage system Remote Advanced Copy function (REC) in other disk cases.

"A.2.17 Using Advanced Copy Function in Proxy Configuration"

8

GDS Snapshot

Snapshot creation with ETERNUS Disk storage system Advanced Copy function in the DM-MP environments

Snapshot can be created with ETERNUS Disk storage system Advanced Copy function in DM-MP environment.

- "A.2.17 Using Advanced Copy Function in Proxy Configuration"

- "A.2.40 DM-MP (Device Mapper Multipath)"

9

GDS

Improvement on Change Scope screen of GDS Management View

When the following names; a node identifier of PRIMECLUSTER (CF node name) and a host name (mip) of Web-Based Admin View displayed on the GDS Configuration Tree field in the Main screen in GDS Management View, are different, both a node identifier name and a hostname are displayed in the [Node Name] of the [Change Scope] screen.

"5.2.2.2 Cluster System Class Configuration"

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