HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 24)

2 Managing Virtual Storage Machine Resources
The virtual storage machine is the unit that is used to manage virtualized resources for each storage
system. For program products with global virtualization functions, a virtual storage machine is
created in the storage system. For example, if nondisruptive migration is used to migrate a storage
system to HP XP7 Storage, the virtualized storage system is the migration source storage system.
The migration source storage system is created in the migration target storage system.
About virtual storage machines and virtualized resources
For operations involving virtualized resources in a virtual storage machine, physical resources must
be linked to virtualized resources. Virtual LDEV IDs cannot be specified when resource operations
are performed in a virtual storage machine.
Virtual storage machines are created with operations involving data migration or the high availability
data. Other than those operations, a user cannot create virtual storage machines in a storage
system. For information on removing virtual storage machines, see the HP XP7 RAID Manager User
Guide.
Information on the virtualized resources of a virtual storage machine appears in Remote Web
Console with associated physical storage information. If the information on these resources is not
displayed by default, you can change the Column Settings of the table option.
For information on displaying virtualized resources, see the HP XP7 RAID Manager User Guide.
The following information is displayed:
LDEVs for which virtualization management is disabled
LDEVs that satisfy both of these conditions:
•
The model name and serial number of the virtual storage machine that manages a resource
group with LDEVs is the same as the storage system involved in the operation.
•
The values of the virtual LDEV ID and the LDEV ID are the same.
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