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Navisphere Manager Simulator Lab Guide R3.28
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Table of Contents: Navisphere Manager Simulator Lab ....................................................5
Introduction to Lab Exercises .................................................................................................7
Lab Exercise 1: Logging into and Navigating Navisphere Manager .......................................8
Lab Exercise 1 ....................................................................................................................9
Part 1: Logging into the Navisphere Manager ....................................................................9
Lab Exercise 1 ..................................................................................................................11
Part 2: Navigating the Navisphere Manager User Interface.............................................11
Lab Exercise 2: Enable/Disable Navisphere Classic CLI and Configuring NTP ...................16
Lab Exercise 2 ..................................................................................................................17
Part 1: Enabling and Disabling Navisphere Classic CLI ...................................................17
Lab Exercise 2 ..................................................................................................................18
Part 2: Configuring NTP....................................................................................................18
Lab Exercise 3: Storage Management - Allocating and Assigning LUNs .............................20
Lab Exercise 3 ..................................................................................................................21
Part 1 : Using the Storage Allocatation Wizard to assign LUNs........................................21
Lab Exercise 3 ..................................................................................................................24
Part 2 : Manually Bind LUNs.............................................................................................24
Lab Exercise 4: Configuring SnapView Snapshots ..............................................................28
Lab Exercise 4 : Configuring SnapView Snapshots..........................................................29
Lab Exercise 5: Configuring SnapView Clones ....................................................................31
Lab Exercise 5 : Configuring SnapView Clones................................................................32
Lab Exercise 6: Configuring Full and Incremental SANCopy ...............................................34
Lab Exercise 6 ..................................................................................................................35
Part 1 : SANCopy Full Replicas ........................................................................................35
Lab Exercise 6 ..................................................................................................................38
Part 2 : SANCopy Incremental Replicas ...........................................................................38
Lab Exercise 7: Creating Synchronous and Asynchronous Mirrors......................................40
Lab Exercise 7 ..................................................................................................................41
Part 1 : Creating Synchronous Mirrors..............................................................................41
Lab Exercise 7 ..................................................................................................................43
Part 2 : Creating Asynchronous Mirrors............................................................................43
Lab Exercise 8: Expanding LUNs and Migrating LUNs .......................................................45
Lab Exercise 8 ..................................................................................................................46
Part 1 : Expanding LUNs with Stripe Expansion ...............................................................46
Lab Exercise 8 ..................................................................................................................48
Part 2: Expanding LUNs with Concatenation Expansion ..................................................48
Lab Exercise 8 ..................................................................................................................50
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Purpose: This lab is designed to familiarize the user with the configuration
and management of a CLARiiON Storage System using the
Navisphere Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI). The
Navisphere Manager GUI is very robust in its ability to provide the
necessary information for day-to-day management of a CLARiiON
data storage environment, while providing an easy to use,
Windows look and feel. This lab will walk the user through the
steps necessary to create and allocate data storage on a
CLARiiON Storage System as well as acquaint the user with
optional CLARiiON software that allows for disaster recovery and
staging data for online data backups.
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Lab Exercise 1
Part 1: Logging into the Navisphere Manager
Step Action
1 Start the Navisphere Manager interface by choosing Start > Programs >
Navisphere Simulation > Launch Navisphere Simulator.
2 If this is your first time Logging into Navisphere Manager fill out all appropriate
fields in the “Installer Details” window and click Activate
3 Verify Username: administrator and Password: emc . Click “OK” at the login
screen
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Step Action
Note The lab assumes that at this time there are no RAID Groups, Storage Groups, or
other objects created.
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Lab Exercise 1
Part 2: Navigating the Navisphere Manager User Interface
Step Action
1 In the Enterprise Storage Window, expand the objects where you see a “+” sign.
The Task Bar shown at the left allows the user to perform common functions such
as Binding LUNs and creating Mirrors and Snapshots. It brings up a Wizard to
guide the user through basic configuration tasks. Initially the Reserved LUN Pool is
empty and there are no RAID Groups, Storage Groups, and LUNs. The Physical
container shows a number of DAE3P and components in the rack. The LUN
Folders container allows a way to easily organize LUNs in the array.
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Step Action
2 By expanding the Physical Container you can view the DAE3P enclosures. Each
DAE3P can contain up to 15 FC or SATA disk drives. Note also the other
components such as FANs, LCCs, and Power Supplies, and SPs.
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Step Action
3 Expand the “Enclosure SPE” container. The Storage Processor Enclosure contains
Power Supplies, Fans, Frontend (host side) and Backend (disk side) ports.
Take a moment to examine Port WWPNs (Right click Port > Properties).
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Step Action
4 Click on the File tab and examine the options available.
5 Click on the Tools > Security tab from the toolbar and examine the options
available.
Examine the Tools > Security options and note the changes.
What does this tell you about the Roles assigned to a user and their permissions?
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Step Action
8. Logout and login as “administrator”.
9 Click on Tools> Security > User Management > Add
Add a third user with the parameters below.
Username: security
Role: security administrator
Password: emc
Leave the global/Local at the default of global.
Click OK,YES, OK and confirm the new user creation.
Examine the Tools > Security options and note the changes.
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Purpose: To enable and disable Navisphere Classic CLI and Configure NTP
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Lab Exercise 2
Part 1: Enabling and Disabling Navisphere Classic CLI
Step Action
1 Right click on the storage array > Enable/Disable Classic CLI
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Lab Exercise 2
Part 2: Configuring NTP
Step Action
1 Click File > Set up Domain > NTP
2 Click OK to the message for NTP Domain Operation to override clock settings
Check the “Enable NTP” box and set the “Time Sync Interval” to 1 hr.
3 Check the default address (ex. 65.105.110.66) with the default Key ID and Key
Value.
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Step Action
End of Lab Exercise 2
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Purpose: To create RAID groups, bind LUNs, and create Storage Groups.
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Lab Exercise 3
Part 1 : Using the Storage Allocatation Wizard to assign LUNs
Step Action
1 Right click on the “Allocate” icon under the Storage Management Task bar to
launch the Storage Allocation Wizard.
Click Next after reading the Wizard dialog. A list of available servers will be
displayed.
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Step Action
4 To create a New RAID Group, click on the “New RAID Group” box.
Using the dropdowns, Enter the values shown in the next screen and select Apply
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Step Action
6 From the “LUN Properties” window.
Read the dialog, then select:
Number of LUNS: 4
Check (default) “Automatically assign LUN IDs as LUN names”.
LUN Name: Empty
Sequence Number: Empty
Note the RAID Type (grayed out).
User Capacity: 5 GB
Click Next.
7 From the Summary Window, read the dialog and verify the creation of the LUNs.
Click Finish.
From the Results Window read the dialog.
Click Finish
Note The operation created a default storage group, connected the server to the storage
group, and added the LUNS to the SG
8 Expand the cx4-Top-90 storage system RAID Groups and Storage Groups to view
the completed operations.
Examine the Results
What did the wizard name the Storage Group?
9 Repeat Steps 1 - 7 except this time use “cx4-Bott-92” for the storage system
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Lab Exercise 3
Part 2 : Manually Bind LUNs
Step Action
1 Create the following RAID Groups (without the Wizard)
Right click on the cx4-Top-90 array > Create RAID Group
Use the following parameters for the RAID groups:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RAID Group ID: 1
Number of Disks: 6
RAID Type: RAID 6
Check “Automatically Destroy after Last LUN is Unbound”
Expansion/Defragmentation Priority: Medium
Disk Selection: Automatic
Click Apply, Yes, OK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RAID Group ID: 2
Number of Disks: 5
RAID Type: RAID 5
Check “Automatically Destroy after Last LUN is Unbound”
Expansion/Defragmentation Priority: Medium
Disk Selection: Automatic
Click Apply, Yes, OK
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Step Action
3 Verify the RAID Group and LUNs have been created.
4 Right click the Storage Groups icon and create a Storage Group named “SG_w3k-
241”.
Click on the Assign Icon under the Storage Management Task Bar.
Click Next on the Welcome window.
In the “Select Servers” window, check the box for server “w3k-241” and click Next.
In the “Select Storage System” window, select the CX3-40-TOP array and click
Next.
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Step Action
5 In the “Select Storage” window, from the “Available LUNs” section expand SPA and
check LUNs 10,11,12,13. This moves the LUNs to the “Selected LUNs” section.
Verify that both the Host and LUNs were added to storage group “SG_w3k-241”.
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Step Action
6 Right click on RAID Group 1 and Bind 4 new LUNs with the following properties:
Bind 2 LUNs of 5GB having LUN IDs 20 and 21.
Bind 2 LUNs of 10GB having LUN IDs 22 and 23.
Verify the configuration It should appear the same as the slide below.
7 Repeat Steps 1 - 6 except this time use “cx4-Bott-92” for the storage system
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Step Action
1 From the Task Bar, click on the Replication Tab.
2 Click the Configure SnapView Snapshots Icon to launch the Wizard.
Read the Welcome Screen and click Next.
From the “Select a Production Server” window select w3k-240 as the Production
Server and click Next.
From the “Select Storage System” window select the cx4-Top-90 Storage array and
click Next.
3 From the “Select the Source LUNs” window expand the Storage Groups container.
Next, expand the SG_W3k-240 container and check the box for LUN 0 to move it to
the selected LUNs window. Click Next.
Read the “Configure Storage overhead for Snapshots” window. Keep the defaults
for the storage overhead parameters. Click Next.
From the “Select Snapshot LUN names window” keep the defaults. Note that the
wizard provide a name for newly created LUNS. Click Next.
From the “Assign Snapshot to a Server” window select w3k-241, keeping the
defaults, and click Next.
Read the Summary and click Finish.
Read the Results window and click Finish.
4 In the “LUNs Folder” expand the container for the “Reserved LUN Pool”. Note that
the wizard created two LUNs.
Expand the “Private LUNs” container. Do you see any reserved LUNs?
Expand the “SP” containers under the “LUNs Folder” container. What is the status
of the Source LUN?
Expand the Storage Group container for w3k-240. What is the status of LUN 0?
Expand the Storage Group container for w3-241 > Snapshots. What is in the
Snapshots container?
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Step Action
5 Expand the Storage Group container w3k-240 > LUNs and right click LUN_0.
Select Snapview > Start Snapview Session.
Name the session “SnapShot_Session_LUN0”, highlight the LUN in the Selected
LUNs window and click OK.
Click YES , OK to confirm
Expand the SnapView container > Snapshots > Snapshot Names and right click on
the LUN_0_Snapshot_1.
Select “Activate Snapshot” and select “SnapShot_Session_LUN0”
Check that the status of LUN0 changed to Active.
Did the “Reserved LUN Pool” change?
6 Expand the SnapView > Snapshot Names container and right click
“LUN_0_Snapshot_1”. Select “Deactivate Snapshot”.
Expand the Snapshots > Sessions Names container and right click
“Snapshot_Session_LUN0”. Select “Stop Session”, read the message and click
Yes.
Check the Reserved LUN Pool, did it free the LUN?
Right click on the Snapshot again and select “Destroy Snapshot”. What happened?
The snapshot was assigned to server w3k-241, right click on the SG_w3-241 >
Select LUNS
Select “LUN_0_Snapshot_1”, click “Remove” and then click Apply.
Expand the Snapshot > Snapshot Names container and click “Destroy Snapshot”.
Did it work?
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Step Action
1 From the Task Bar, click on the Replication Tab.
2 From the Task Bar Wizard, Click Configure SnapView Clones Icon
Select Next from the Welcome screen.
From the “Select a Production Server” window select w3k-240 as the Production
Server and click Next.
From the “Select Storage System” window select cx4-Top-90 and click Next.
3 From the “Select the Source LUNs” window expand the Storage Groups container.
Next, expand the SG_W3k-240 container and check the box for LUN 0 to move it to
the selected LUNs window. Click Next.
From the “Select Clone LUN Names” window keep the defaults. Note that the
wizard provide a name for newly created LUNS. Click Next.
From the “RAID Configuration” window click Next
From the “Assign Clone to a Server” window keep the defaults and select server
w3k-241. Click next
Read the Summary and click Finish.
Read the Results window and click Finish.
4 Examine the following containers for Clone status.
Expand the LUNS Folder > Private LUNs Container. Did any new LUNS get
created?
Expand RAID Group 1 > Private LUNS. Did any new LUNS get created?
Expand the SnapView > Clones container. Examine the state of the clone group
and it members.
Right click on the Clone Group, “01000…’, and the clone to see the available
options.
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Step Action
5 Add a second Clone to the existing Group.
Right click on the Clone group “LUN 0_CloneGroup” and select “Add Clone”.
Expand the SPs and note the available LUNs.
Select LUN 1, keep the defaults, click Apply, OK , Cancel.
Examine the Clone Group again. Note the RAID Types that make up the Clone
group.
What does this tell you about adding a Clone?
7 Right Click on the Clone group “LUN 0_CloneGroup” and select “Destroy Clone
Group”. What happened?
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Lab Exercise 6
Part 1 : SANCopy Full Replicas
Step Action
1 On the “cx4-Top-90” array expand storage Group SG_w3k-240.
Right click on LUN 0 > Properties
Rename LUN 0 to “SANCopy_Primary_LUN0”. Click OK, Yes, OK, Cancel.
On the “cX4-Bott-92” array expand Storage Group SG_w3k-240.
Right click on LUN 1 > Properties.
Rename LUN 1 to “SANCopy_Secondary_LUN1”
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Step Action
2 Right click each Storage Group on “cx4-Top-90” and select SAN Copy >
Connections. For each SAN Copy system check “Port 0” and Click Apply, Yes, Ok.
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Step Action
4 From the Task Bar, select Replication > Configure SANCopy.
From the Welcome screen click Next.
From the “Select SANCopy Storage System” window select “CX3-40-TOP”.
From the “Select Session Type” window select Full and click Next.
From the “Select Storage Sources” window select SANCopy_Primary_LUN0 and
click Next.
From the “Select Storage Destinations for Storage Sources” right click LUN 0 under
the “ID” column choose Select Destination Storage
Use the dropdown from the “Storage Destination” select cx4-Bott-92 and note the
available LUNs
Select SANCopy_Seconday_LUN 1 > OK then Next
From the “Sessions Names” window Click Next
Read the Summary click Finish, OK.
6 Expand the SAN Copy Sessions container on you cx4-Top-90 array. The session
will appear as a Full session under the owning SP of the LUN you selected.
7 Right click on the session and Start the session. Wait until it completes.
Once started, right click and select “ status”
Click on each tab of the status ( Copy, Source, and Destination)
Click OK and validate the session has a status of “Completed” under “San Copy
Sessions”.
Right click on the Session Name > Remove
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Lab Exercise 6
Part 2 : SANCopy Incremental Replicas
Step Action
1 Using the Wizard, follow the process used to create a Full SANCopy replica except
choose “Incremental”
Select the same Source LUN ( SANCopy_Primary_LUN0) and Destination LUNs
(SANCopy_Secondary_LUN1)
From the “Link Utilization” window keep the default Link Bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps and
select Next.
From the “Session Name” window, highlight the Session Name and select “EDIT”.
Append _inc to the session name to make it “w3k-240:0_inc”
Click OK > Next
Read the Summary Screen and click Finish > OK.
2 Expand and examine the following containers to view the LUNS/names created
during the session.
Reserved LUN Pool
LUN Folders > SPA and SPB
Storage Group SG_w3k-240
Snapview > Snapshots and Sessions > Reserved Sessions
SANCopy Sessions > SPB Incremental Sessions
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Step Action
3 Right click on the session name > Status > The differences here show an
incremental session has a “MARK” associated with it. Incremental San Copy will
transfer only changes that have occurred on the source since the last session.
Once the session completes, check out the status again to make sure it shows
complete.
Highlight each tab to view the details
Note Manual creation of SANCopy sessions follows the same process. The manual
implementation is not part of the current Simulator.
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Lab Exercise 7
Part 1 : Creating Synchronous Mirrors
Step Action
1 Right click on the cx4-Top-90 array > MirrorView > Manage MirrorView
Connections
Select the connection from the right panel and click Enable. Click OK.
2 Open Storage group w3k-240 on cx4-Top-90 array. Right click on LUN 1 >
Properties> Rename the LUN 1 to MVS_Source_LUN1
3 Click on the “Configure MirrorView” icon from the Task Bar.
Read the Welcome window and click Next.
From the “Select Servers” window highlight w3k-240 and click Next.
From the “Select Primary Storage System” window select cx4-Top-90 and click
Next.
From the “Select Storage LUN” window expand the Storage Group w3k-240, check
the box for MVS_Source_LUN1, highlight the LUN in the “Selected LUNs” menu.
Click Next.
4 From the “Select Secondary Storage System” window select cx4-Bott-92 and click
Next.
From the “Select Mirror Type” window read the dialog for the Mirror types and
choose “Synchronous”. Click Next.
From the “Attribute” window read the dialog, keep the defaults, and click Next
From the “Configuration” window click Next.
From the “RAID Configuration” window keep the defaults and click Next.
From the “Select Servers” window, leave the defaults, and select w3k-241. Click
Next.
Read the Summary window and click Finish.
Read the “Results” window click Finish.
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Step Action
5 Expand and examine the following containers on the Primary ( cx4-Top-90) and
Secondary (cx4-Bott-92) arrays
LUN Folders > Private LUNs
LUN Folders > SP A and SP B
Storage Groups
Remote Mirrors
Note The write intent log keeps track of writes that have not yet been made to the remote
image for the mirror. It allows for fast recovery when the primary storage system
fails. When the primary fails and is recovered, the write intent log is used to
synchronize the data on the remote image. Otherwise, a full resynchronization
would be required for the remote image. In situations where you must replace the
primary storage system due to a catastrophic failure, you can use a promotion to
access data on the secondary storage system. To recover and restore I/O access,
you must promote a secondary mirror image to the role of primary mirror image, so
that a server can access it.
6 On the Primary array (cx4-Top-90) open the “Remote Mirrors” container and
expand out all options.
Right click on the “Secondary Image” and note the options.
Click Promote, read the Warning message, click Yes, then OK.
Did the Primary and Secondary Mirrors switch states?
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Lab Exercise 7
Part 2 : Creating Asynchronous Mirrors
Step Action
1 Creating an Asynchronous Mirror is very similar to a Synchronous Mirror.
Open the SG_W3k-240 Storage Group. Right click on LUN 2, Rename LUN 2 to
“MVA_Source_LUN2”
Step Action
5 Manual Creation of a Mirror
Open Storage Group SG_w3-240
Right click on LUN 3 > Properties > Rename to MVS_Source_LUN3
Right Click on MVS_Source_LUN3 > MirrowView > Create Remote Mirror
Use the parameters shown in the screen (use the drop down to change from
Asynchronous to Sync)
Click OK, Yes, OK
Under Remote Mirrors check the status of the newly created Mirror
Right click to “Add Secondary Image”
From the screen ensure the secondary array is CX3-40-BOTT
Select LUN 2 > Select OK, Yes, OK
Check the status of both arrays and Mirrors
Destroy the Secondary Image, then the Mirror, from the “Remote Mirrors Container”
Click on the secondary mirror image > Remove
Click on the Mirror Name > Remove
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The LUN migration feature lets you move the data in one LUN or
metaLUN to another LUN or metaLUN. You might do this to
change the type of drive the data is stored on (for example, from
more economical ATA to faster FC, or vice-versa), to select a
RAID type that better matches the data usage, and/or recreate a
LUN with more disk space.
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Lab Exercise 8
Part 1 : Expanding LUNs with Stripe Expansion
Step Action
1 From the Storage Management Taskbar, click on the Expand Icon.
From the “Welcome to the Expand Storage Wizard” window, read the dialog and
click Next.
From the “Select Servers” window select server w3k-240 and click Next
Select the CX3-40-TOP array, Click Next
From the “Select LUN to Expand window” select LUN 0 and click Next
From the “Select Expansion Type window” select the default of “Stripe Expansion”
and click Next.
From the “Select Unused LUN”s window select LUN 1 and click Next.
From the “Specify MetaLUN Capacity” window take the default of maximum
capacity and click Next.
From the “Specify new LUN settings window” click Next
From the “Summary window” verify the capacity is correct (10GB) and click Finish.
From the “Results window” click Finish.
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Step Action
2 Expand the LUN Folders container.
A striped metaLUN consists of a single Component with a number of LUNS that
comprise the metaLUN. Available LUNS are the same size and RAID Type of the
“base or source” LUN. Right click on the metaLUN to view the properties.
Expand the Private LUNs container, RAID Group container where that the LUN is
contained under, and the Storage Group in which the LUN is in. Note the numbers
to the right of the LUNs are assigned by the wizard. These will be different
depending on the array model.
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Lab Exercise 8
Part 2: Expanding LUNs with Concatenation Expansion
Step Action
1 Click on the Expand icon and click Next.
Select server w3k-240 Storage Array cx4-Bott-92 and click Next.
Select LUN 0 and click Next.
Click the radio button for Concatenation and click Next.
From the “Select Unused LUNs” window select LUN 1 and click Next.
From the “Specify MetaLUN Capacity” window take the default of maximum
capacity and click Next.
From the “Specify MetaLUN Settings” window keep the defaults and click Next.
From the “Summary” window verify the capacity is correct (10 GB) and click Finish.
From the “Results window” and click Finish.
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Step Action
Expand the LUN Folders container. Expand LUN 0. A concatenated metaLUN
consists of multiple components with a number of LUNS that comprise the
metaLUN. Available LUNS can be different sizes and RAID Types than the “base
or source” LUN. Right click on the metaLUN to view the properties. Expand the
Private LUNs container, RAID Group container where that the LUN is contained
under, and the Storage Group in which the LUN is in. Note the numbers to the right
of the LUNs are assigned by the wizard. These will be different depending on the
array model.
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Lab Exercise 8
Part 3: Migrating LUNs
Step Action
Expand RAID Group 0 on the cx4-Bott-92 array.
Right click on LUN 2 and check the properties. Verify the LUN size and then click
Cancel.
Right click on LUN 2 again and click Migrate.
Expand both SP’s to view available LUNs. Note they may be from different RAID
Groups.
Select LUN 10 and click Next . Click OK to start the Migration.
Right clicking on the properties of LUN 2 will now show a “Migration” tab on the
upper right side of the window, click on the tab to show the status.
After migration completes verify the following;
Under which RAID Group does LUN 0 reside?
Where is LUN 10?
What is the RAID Type for LUN 0?
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