Lun Operations

Expanding a LUN

Expanding a LUN

There are two ways to expand a lun. LUSE and Stripped expansion. For the stripped expansion follow this document here it is excellent. I found it one day while browsing the internet , and I didn't find any copyright details in it. Please let me know if you have any idea who put it together. Expanding a LUN Best Practice ...

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Allocate a lun – masking/mapping

Allocate a lun

Allocating a lun it's the process where you present a carved lun to a host or to more hosts (if you have a cluster for example). You do need to know the LDEV id that you want to present and also you need to know what lun number that host will see your ldev. You can present luns in any ...

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Allocate a LUN – carving

Hitachi designed the Device Manager so you can always carve a lun for whatever part of the resource tab you are into (and not only). The Create Volume task is available from a multitude of locations throughout the app. Carving is the operation that will take a slice out of a pool and allocate a unique identifier for that slice ...

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How to allocate disk to hosts

In computer storage, a logical unit number, or LUN, is a number used to identify a logical unit, which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or protocols which encapsulate SCSI, such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI. A LUN may be used with any device which supports read/write operations, such as a tape drive, but is most often used ...

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