HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 14)

Business Copy supports only 3390-9A multiplatform volumes. Continuous Access Synchronous
does not support multiplatform volumes (including 3390-9A) via FICON.
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Volume discovery via FICON. The inqraid command discovers the FCP volume information by
using SCSI inquiry. FICON volumes can be discovered only by using RAID Manager to convert
the mainframe interface (Read_device_characteristics or Read_configuration_data) to SCSI
Inquiry. As such, the information that is required to run the inqraid command cannot be
implemented, as shown in the following example:
sles8z:/HORCM/usr/bin# ls /dev/dasd* | ./inqraid
/dev/dasda -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 1920 LDEV = 4 [HTC ] [0704_3390_0A]
/dev/dasdaa -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 62724 LDEV =4120 [HTC ] [C018_3390_0A]
/dev/dasdab -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 62724 LDEV =4121 [HTC ] [C019_3390_0A]
sles8z:/HORCM/usr/bin# ls /dev/dasd* | ./inqraid -CLI
DEVICE_FILE PORT SERIAL LDEV CTG H/M/12 SSID R:Group PRODUCT_ID
dasda - 1920 4 - - 00C0 - 0704_3390_0A
dasdaa - 62724 4120 - - 9810 - C018_3390_0A
dasdab - 62724 4121 - - 9810 - C019_3390_0A
In the previous example, the Product_ID, C019_3390_0A, has the following associations:
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C019 indicates the Devno
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3390 indicates the Dev_type
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0A indicates the Dev_model
The following commands cannot be used because there is no PORT information:
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raidscan -pd <device>, raidar -pd <device>, raidvchkscan -pd <device>
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raidscan -find [conf] , mkconf
Requirements and restrictions for VM
Restrictions for VMware ESX Server
Whether RAID Manager (RM) runs or not depends on the support of guest OS by VMware. In
addition, the guest OS depends on VMware support of virtual H/W (HBA). Therefore, the following
guest OS and restrictions must be followed when using RAID Manager on VMware.
Figure 2 RAID Manager configuration on guest OS/VMware
The restrictions for using RAID Manager with VMware are:
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