Device emulation types, Failover, Device emulation types 18 failover 18 – HP XP12000 User Manual

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HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP Operating System Configuration Guide: HP-UX

Device emulation types

The XP family of disk arrays supports these device emulation types:

OPEN-K/3/8/9/E devices: OPEN-x logical units represent disk

devices. Except for OPEN-V, these devices are based on fixed
sizes. OPEN-V is a user-defined size. Supported emulations
include OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-E, OPEN-L, and
OPEN-V devices.

LUSE devices (OPEN-x*n): Logical Unit Size Expansion (LUSE)

devices combine 2 to 36 OPEN-x devices to create expanded
LDEVs larger than standard OPEN-K/3/8/9/E disk devices. For
example, an OPEN-x LUSE volume created from ten OPEN-x
volumes is designated as OPEN-x*10.

CVS devices (OPEN-x CVS): Volume Size Configuration (VSC)

defines custom volumes (CVS) that are smaller than normal
fixed-sized logical disk devices (volumes). (OPEN-V is a
CVS-based custom disk size that you determine. OPEN-L does not
support CVS.)

LUSE (expanded) CVS devices (OPEN-x*n CVS): LUSE CVS

combines CVS devices to create an expanded device. This is done
by first creating CVS custom-sized devices and then using LUSE
to combine from 2 to 36 CVS devices. For example, if three
OPEN-9 CVS volumes are combined to create an expanded device,
this device is designated as OPEN-9*3-CVS.

Failover

The XP family of disk arrays supports many standard software products

that provide host, application, or I/O path failover and management.

The following are supported for HP-UX:

• HP Multi-Computer/ServiceGuard (MC/ServiceGuard) software for

application failover

• Alternate link for I/O path failover (included in HP-UX)

• Logical volume management (included in HP-UX)

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