Add external volumes window – HP XP Racks User Manual

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Add External Volumes window

Part of the Add External Volumes wizard, use this window to display discovered external volumes
and to make related selections.

Description

Item

Volumes in the external system associated with the external port side of the
external path and path group.

Discovered External Volumes

The external LUN with the highest priority.

LUN ID(Highest Priority)

"?" indicates that an external volume is not found. In this case, confirm the
connection with the external system, and then perform the operation again.

Name of the storage system reported to the host by the external volume.
The displayed name differs by vendor. For some HP enterprise storage, this
field displays emulation type.

Device Name

External volume capacity.

Capacity

Identification number of the external volume.

Characteristic1

The value is used by Ext Stor to identify the LUN across multiple paths. The
value is provided by the external system and may reflect internal numbering.

Identification number of the external volume.

Characteristic2

Information about the external volume’s drive type.

Drive Info

SATA displays when the external volume is a SATA drive of following storage
systems.

P9500

XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array

HUS/AMS/WMS

SMS

Thunder 9500V

SSD displays when the external volume is the SSD of following storage
systems.

HP XP7 Storage

HUS VM Storage Platform

P9500

XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array

Displays operation mode of the external path.

Path Mode

Single: Ordinarily, only one external path is used even if alternate paths
are set, In Single mode, alternate paths are operated only in case of
maintenance work failure.

Multi: When alternate paths are set, external paths from several ports
are simultaneously used with load balancing.

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