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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 …
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). …
Allocate a lun – masking/mapping
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 …
How to check the LUN-ID from host side
If you ever wondered how you can check the lunid from the hostside and you don’t have the option of installing CCI then you are …
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 …
HiCommand LDAP authentication setup
We discussed about HiCommand and that the default user account is system with the password of “manager”… However, that is not very secure so we …
HicommandCLI – configuration
As noted in the previous post regarding HiCommandCLI installation you need to specify the url, username and password every time you need to run a …
HicommandCLI – install and first run
Device Manager has a command line as well. It can be downloaded and installed locally on any machine or it can be lunched from the …
How to check port settings on USP
Changing ports settings is useful for setting up arrays, once they are setup you don’t need to touch them that often unless you decide that …
How to login to SVP
Storage Navigator or Element Manager is a webserver that allows you to perform day-to-day activities on a VSP. You will hear the terms Storage Navigator …
How to refresh a storage array into HCS
Remember that HCS is actually an application that holds it’s own database regarding hosts, what they see, what type they are and where they are …
How to virtualize volumes on VSP
After you login to svp, go under the External Storages and click on the Add external volumes button Click the Create External Path Group (this …
HUR – create a replication pair
In this post we will be talking about creating a replication pair for the HUR (Hitachi Universal Replicator) Once HUR is configured and both arrays …
HUR step-by-step config
Hitachi Universal Replicator is Hitachi’s solution to async replication. Their implementation thought is a bit different then other solutions like EMC’s recoverpoints. Yes, they do …
Registering a new host
Hitachi Device Manager needs to know about the clients (or look at them as consumers if you want to) when you allocate space. In order …
TrueCopy states
Normaly in a truecopy replication state we see different codes telling us teh health of the pairs. Here are the most common ones. Don’t forget …
What is Device Manager
Device Manager is the main centralized suite used to manage all the HDS components that you might have at a site. It can manage VSP’s, …