HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 51)

For information about default settings of the storage system, see “Overwriting control blocks in
specific external volumes” (page 51) .
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Deleting LDEVs (converting LDEVs to the free space).
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Creating LDEVs.
Overwriting control blocks in specific external volumes
1. Perform zero-formatting on the mainframe system volumes to register them (see steps 1 and 2
in
“Registering external volumes” (page 50) ).
2. In the Storage Systems tree, select External Storages.
The External Storage Systems tab appears.
3. Click the value of Vendor / Model / Serial Number of the external storage.
The External Path Groups tab appears.
4. Click the External Path Group ID.
The Mapped Volumes tab appears.
5. Select the row of the parity group that contains the external volume to be blocked, click More
Actions and select Disconnect External Volumes.
For more details about the Disconnect External Volumes button, see the Hitachi Universal
Volume Manager User Guide.
6. In the Storage Systems tree, click Parity Groups and External. Then select the parity group
that contains the blocked external volume.
The LDEV tab appears. Confirm that Blocked appears in the Status column.
7. Select the target volumes from among the volumes with a status of Blocked and click Format
LDEVs.
The Format LDEVs window appears.
8. From the Format Type list, select Write to Control Blocks, and click Finish.
9. In the Confirm window, click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.
10. When processing is complete, click OK.
11. Select the external volumes, then click More Actions and Reconnect External Volumes to restore
them.
Normal displays in the Status column of the target volumes.
Assigning a processor blade
Assigning a processor blade to a resource
You can assign a processor blade to resources (logical devices, external volumes, and journal
volumes).
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In the Remote Web Console main window, in the Storage Systems tree, select Components.
2. In Components, select the name of the DKC for which you want to assign a processor blade.
Processor blades can be viewed in the Processor Blades tab.
3. Select a processor blade for which you want to change the settings, and then click Edit MP
Blades.
4. In the Edit Processor Blades window, disable or enable Auto Assignment.
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Select Enable if the processor blade can be automatically assigned. This is the default.
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Select Disable if the processor blade cannot be automatically assigned.
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