HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software User Manual

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Edit the file to disable the LABEL specification and enable the SCSI device

specification.

9

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Restart the host to make sure that booting from the SCSI device is

possible.
This completes the removal of the LABEL setting.

10

.

Install HDLM.
To install HDLM, see

Performing a New Installation of HDLM on page

3-100

perform steps 2 to 12 to create an HDLM device. You will also need

to perform step 13 if you are only restarting the host. Note that the

procedure differs depending on whether the host is restarted after

installation.
In steps 12 to 27 that follow, you will edit the configuration file to change

the definition so that the OS starts with HDLM specified.

11

.

Execute the HDLM-configuration definition utility (dlmcfgmgr) with the -v

parameter specified to check the correspondence between the HDLM

device and the SCSI device.

# dlmcfgmgr -v

HDevName Management Device Host Channel Target Lun

/dev/sddlmaa configured /dev/sda 0 0 0 0

KAPL10302-I /sbin/dlmcfgmgr completed normally.

The HDevName column indicates the HDLM device, and the Device column

indicates the SCSI device.

12

.

Edit the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file so that the LVM2 recognizes the HDLM

device, not the SCSI device.
The following shows examples of editing the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file.

Figure 3-11 Example of Editing /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file

Comment out the existing filter and types lines, and add the shaded

lines in the figure.
Set 0 in md_component_detection.

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