HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software User Manual

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Make sure that md0 : active is displayed and that the HDLM devices are

displayed.

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Specify the settings required for using the volume management software.
If you performed the operations described in

Deactivating the Volume

Group on page 3-106

in

Preparations for an Upgrade Installation or Re-

installation of HDLM on page 3-105

, perform the following steps to

activate the volume group:

If you did not perform step 12:

Go to step 18.

If you performed step 12:

Go to step 19.

If you do not use the volume management software, go to step 22.
For details on other settings for the volume management software, see

Settings for LVM2 on page 3-196

.

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Activate the volume group.
In the following example, the logical volume on the HDLM device belongs

to the vg01 volume group:

# vgchange -ay vg01

vgchange -- volume group "vg01" successfully activated

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Mount the logical volume on the HDLM device.
In the following example, the logical volume is /dev/vg01/lvol1 and the

command mounts the volume on /mnt/lvol1:

# mount /dev/vg01/lvol1 /mnt/lvol1

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Specify the settings required for using virtual environments.
If you are using Xen, set up Xen to use HDLM devices in domainU. If you

are using KVM, register HDLM devices into the hardware configuration

file.
For details on operating environments for the virtual environments

supported by HDLM, see

Virtual Environments Supported by HDLM on

page 3-87

. For details on how to set up a virtual environment, see

Settings for Xen on page 3-205

or

Settings for KVM on page 3-207

.

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Specify the settings required for operations in a cluster configuration.
For a cluster configuration, change the logical device file names of SCSI

devices specified in the cluster to logical device file names of HDLM

devices.
For details on setting the cluster software, see

Settings for Heartbeat on

page 3-208

,

Settings for Oracle RAC on page 3-208

,

Settings for the

RHCM on page 3-211

, or

Settings for VCS on page 3-213

.

Creating an HDLM Environment

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