HP XP Racks User Manual

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number, such as 15, copying is faster, but I/O performance of the storage system may
decrease. If you specify a small number, such as 3, copying is slower, but the impact on I/O
performance is lessened.

10. From the Priority drop-down menu, select the scheduling order for the initial copy operations.

You can enter between 1-256. The highest priority is 1, the lowest priority is 256. The default
is 32.

For example, if you are creating 10 pairs and you specified in the System Option window
that the maximum initial copies that can be made at one time is 5, the priority you assign here
determines the order that the 10 pairs are created.

11. From the Difference Management drop-down menu, select the unit of measurement for storing

differential data. You can select Auto, Cylinder, or Track.

With Auto, the system decides whether to use Cylinder or Track. This is based on the size
of the volume.

If VLL is used, the number of cylinders set for VLL is applied.

If the pair volume has 10,019 or more cylinders, Cylinder is applied.

If the pair volume has less than 10,019 cylinders, Track is applied.

12. From the Quorum Disk ID drop-down menu, specify the quorum disk ID that you want to assign

to the pair or pairs.

13. Click Set. The settings are shown in the Preview area.
14. In the Preview list, check the settings. To change a setting, right-click and select Modify. To

delete a setting, right-click and select Delete. When satisfied, click Apply. This starts pair
creation and initial copying if specified.

To verify host recognition of the ESAM P-VOL and S-VOL

1.

Using RAID Manager, make sure the ESAM pair is created with the -fe option of the pairdisplay
command.

2.

Make sure pair status is PAIR, and that Type on the Remote Web Console Pair Operation
window displays “ESAM” for the primary and secondary storage systems. (Until Type = ESAM,
application I/Os cannot be taken over in case of a failover.)

3.

Either reboot the host or use the host operating system's device recognition command. For
more information, see the documentation provided with the system.

For Linux host operating systems, make sure that the ESAM pair’s status is PAIR before
rebooting. If the host reboots when the ESAM pair is not in the PAIR status, a check
condition might be reported to the host.

For Solaris host operating systems, make sure the ESAM pair status is PAIR before
performing the following operations, otherwise a failure can occur:

An online operation on a path you are not allowed to access.

Rebooting the host.

Dynamic addition of the host device.

Opening the host device.

If a path becomes offline, change the ESAM pair status to PAIR and then perform the
online operation for the offline path.

4.

Check path configuration to the P-VOL and S-VOL using the multipath software command on
the host. Set the owner and non-owner paths to the P-VOL. For more information about the
multipath software commands, see the documentation provided with the multipath software.

To verify host recognition of the ESAM P-VOL and S-VOL

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