Lab Guide for

Hitachi Unified Storage VM Fundamentals

CCI2288 / CCE2288

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Contents
CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................III
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................V
LAB ACTIVITY 1. HITACHI UNIFIED STORAGE VM COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION.........A1-1
Overview
A1-1
Activity Part 1: DKC Front View
A1-2
DKC Front Panel
A1-3
Activity Part 2: DKC Rear View
A1-4
Activity Part 3: Overall Rack Layout A1-5

LAB ACTIVITY 2. STORAGE NAVIGATOR....................................................................A2-1

Overview
A2-1
Lab Activities
A2-2
1. Login A2-3
2. Storage Navigator Alert Status & Display Panels A2-4
4. Install-Verify License Keys
A2-6
5. Create and View Reports
A2-7
6. Task Management
A2-7
7. Create a Host Group
A2-7
8. Create a Dynamic Provisioning Pool
A2-8

LAB ACTIVITY 3. PERFORMANCE MONITOR...............................................................A3-1

Overview
A3-1
1. Monitor Performance

A3-2

LAB ACTIVITY 4. CONFIGURING CACHE PARTITIONS.................................................A4-1

Overview
A4-1
1. Prepare your new CLPR Plan A4-2
2. Configure the new CLPR
A4-2
3. Create a new CLPR
A4-2
4. Assign internal Parity Group to the new CLPR

A4-2

LAB ACTIVITY 5. COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) / RAIDCOM..............................A5-1

Overview
A5-1
Lab Activity A5-2

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Lab Activity

Lab Solutions
LAB SOLUTION 1. HITACHI UNIFIED STORAGE VM COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION.........S1-1
Overview
S1-1
Activity Part 1: DKC Front View
S1-1
DKC Front Panel
S1-3
Activity Part 2: DKC Rear View
S1-5
Activity Part 3: Overall Rack Layout S1-6

LAB SOLUTION 2. STORAGE NAVIGATOR....................................................................S2-1

Overview
S2-1
Lab Activities
S2-2
1. Login S2-3
2. Storage Navigator Alert Status & Display Panels S2-4
4. Install-Verify License Keys
S2-12
5. Create and View Reports
S2-14
6. Task Management
S2-14
7. Create a Host Group
S2-15
8. Create a Dynamic Provisioning Pool
S2-16

LAB SOLUTION 3. PERFORMANCE MONITOR...............................................................S3-1

Overview
S3-1
1. Monitor Performance

S3-2

LAB SOLUTION 4. CONFIGURING CACHE PARTITIONS.................................................S4-1

Overview
S4-1
1. Prepare your new CLPR Plan S4-2
2. Configure the new CLPR
S4-2
3. Create a new CLPR
S4-3
4. Assign internal Parity Group to the new CLPR

S4-4

LAB SOLUTION 5. COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI)/RAIDCOM................................S5-1

Overview
S5-1
Lab Activity S5-2
CLI Demonstration Scripts

S5-5

Introduction

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Please note that this guide includes both a Lab Activities section and a Lab
Solutions section (at the back). The instructions for the lab activities, though
complete, do not include as much detail as the lab solutions. We recommend
that you attempt to perform the learning activities in this guide first using the
instructions provided in the Lab Activities section. If you would like additional
details, then see the instructions in the Lab Solutions section.
Also note that the screenshots you see in this lab guide are based on the
software and firmware versions available when these course materials were
created. Please be aware that the screens you see when you perform the lab
activities may differ, if a new version has been installed on the lab hardware.
Where such differences exist, please focus on the written instructions, rather
than the printed screenshots. If the instructions are not clearly understood, ask
your instructor for assistance.

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Lab Activity

Lab Activity 1. Hitachi Unified Storage VM

Component Identification
Overview
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to locate and identify key components of the
Hitachi Unified Storage VM.

Summary of Activity
On the following pages, examine the front view and rear view diagrams and
identify the components.

References
In addition to the Student Guide, several Hitachi reference manuals are
available to assist you in successfully completing the lab:

Hitachi Unified Storage VM Maintenance Documentation Library (MDL)

Maintenance Manual LOCATION section

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Activity Part 1: DKC Front View

LOC02-20

DKC Front View

Identify the following:
1. DKCFan
2. DKCPanel
In order to identify the following you must remove the fans.
3. MAIN1
4. MAIN2
5. MPB1
6. MPB2

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Lab Activity

DKC Front Panel

DKC Front Panel

Identify the LEDs and Switch
1 _______________________________
2 _______________________________
3 _______________________________
4 _______________________________
5 _______________________________

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Activity Part 2: DKC Rear View

DKC Rear View

1 DKCPS1, DKCPS2
2 SVP
3 Which CHBs are installed? _________________________________
4 Which DKBs are installed? _________________________________

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Activity Part 3: Overall Rack Layout

Answer these questions about the HUS VM rack configuration. Refer to the
appropriate maintenance manuals as necessary:
1. Which racks hold the DKC? ________________________________
2. How many and what types of DBX (SFF, LFF) are installed on your system?
______________________________________
3. What types of drives are installed in each DBX? __________________________

End of Lab Activity 1

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Lab Activity

Lab Activity 2.

Storage Navigator

Overview
Objective
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to connect the
workstation to the SVP, and execute the Hitachi Storage Navigator program.

Summary of Activity
Complete the steps listed on the following pages to connect to the SVP using a
web browser and view the various new Storage Navigator panels.

Reference
In addition to the student guide, several Hitachi reference manuals are available
to assist you in successfully completing the Lab.

Hitachi Storage Navigator Users Guide

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Lab Activities
1 Login
2 Storage Navigator Alert Status & Display Panels
3 User Accounts
4 Install (Verify) License Keys
5 Create and View Reports
6 Task Management
7 Create a Host Group
8 Create a Dynamic Provisioning Pool

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Lab Activity

1 Login

User ID: maintenance

Password: raid-mainte

1. Enter the user ID and password.

2. Click Login to log in to the SVP. The Storage Navigator main window opens.
3. If a local storage area pop-up dialog box of Adobe Flash Player Setting
appears, click Allow. The cache function of Flash Player optimizes the
process of Storage Navigator. Denial of the request might delay the
processing speed of Storage navigator.
4. If the SVP is set to support SSL-encrypted communications, the Security
Information dialog box may appear (depending on the Web browser you
use). If it displays, click Yes to open the Storage Navigator main window.

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1. Storage Navigator Alert Status & Display

Panels
1.

Check your alert status icon; open the window with the Alerts
link.

2.

2. Select the row and then Detail

3.

Rollover the audit log icon to see audit log space utilization. Audit
Log link displays the space usage detail.

4.

Check the resource lock symbol to see if subsystem is being

changed. A change may indicate one or more active administrators
are present.

3. Note the logout link to the right of the username. Use this later to
log out gracefully.
4. Familiarize yourself with the movable panel boundaries.
5. Use the horizontal or vertical double-chevron symbol << to
collapse or expand display areas.
6. Pop-up or pop-down the filter box (used in later labs). Available
values will change for each resource.
7. Expand the VSP system to see a resource list.
8. Expand Components and Parity Groups
9. Click the Performance Monitor element of the Accordion menu.
10.
Drag General Tasks toward the bottom and pull up the
available wizards list by rolling the mouse over the more symbol.
11.

Click the Administration element of the Accordion menu.

12.
Click Administrator User Group. Notice the breadcrumb
trail at top. It says User Groups > Administrator Users Group.
As you drill down deeper, this hyperlinked breadcrumb trail
becomes useful as a way to return to a higher or previous level.

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Lab Activity

13. Click the Storage Systems HUS VM (S/N 2100022) to return to

the Hardware and Allocation Summaries. Review the hardware
summary and enter the following:

Storage System Name _________________

Storage System Type__________________
Serial Number _______________________
IP Address___________________________
Contact _____________________________
Location ____________________________
Microcode Version
Main: ________________
SVP: ________________
RMI Server: __________
Total Cache Size _________

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2. User Accounts
1.

Create a storage administrator account for your lab group. Follow

any specific account name instructions your Instructor may provide.

2.

Select user group click Create User

Ignore the existing user accounts; you are creating a new
account.

3.

Enter User Name and Password:

If you first check Go to tasks window for status, you can watch the
task run to completion, or see if it is waiting on other queued tasks.

4.

Click Apply to complete task

4.Install-Verify License Keys

1.
2.
3.

4.

5.

Select Settings->Environmental Setting->License Key

The license key window appears; if changes are to be made
select the Modify icon.
Check that you are licensed for the following:

Dynamic Provisioning

Dynamic Tiering

To install new license keys, select file and click Browse to find the
.plk file that contains the keys.

Click Install and Apply to save the keys.

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Lab Activity

5.Create and View Reports

1. To work with reports, navigate to:
Storage Systems VSP Reports
2. Create and view your HTML reports.
3. Look at all the graphical and text reports to get a sense of the available
information.
4. Use Download Reports button to save CSV report information.
5. Find and open allconf.csv.

6.Task Management
1. At this point, you should have a list of completed tasks.
2. Navigate to Storage Systems VSP Tasks
3. Check the task status, name, and type.
4. Drill down using the links to see more detail.
5. Click various column headers to change the sort order.
6. Play with the filter tool to reduce the number of displayed tasks.

7.Create a Host Group

1.

Login to the assigned host and find the WWNs using

HBAanywhere.

2.

In Storage Navigator go to the Ports/Host Groups/CL1-A/Host

Groups tab and select Create Host Groups.

3.

Specify the name, enter (2C) select CL1-A in both tables and Add.

4.

Select Finish and then Apply in the next window to complete.

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8.Create a Dynamic Provisioning Pool

1 Go to the Pools menu and select Create Pools
2

Select Multi-Tier Disable, Auto, Middle, 20GB, newpool and then

Add.

3 Select Next to set up pool volumes.

4

Choose Select Pool and use newpool. Specify 2GB and 5

LDEVs, then Add and Next.

5 For this screen just select Next.

6 Assign the LUNs to port CL1-A(Dell Server), select Add and Next
7 Check the LUN ID box and then Finish and Apply on the next
page.
8 Check the Tasks Status

End of Lab Activity 2

Lab Activity 3.

Performance Monitor

Overview
Objective
Upon completion of the lab project, you will track resource utilization on a short
term and long term basis as you monitor both MPs and WWNs.

Summary of Activity
Use Windows Disk Manager to create file systems on your lab host, use Iometer
to generate I/O and Monitor Performance to view I/O and other activities

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Reference
In addition to the Student Guide, the following Hitachi reference manual is
available to assist you in successfully completing the lab:
Performance Manager Users Guide

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1. Monitor Performance
1. To enable monitoring, go to the performance menu and select Edit
Monitoring Switch.
2. Click Enable and set the Interval to 1 minute. Then click Finish.
3. Login to the assigned host and generate Host I/O.
4. Go to Performance Monitor and select Edit WWN Monitor Mode.
5. Select the appropriate WWN on CL1-A; click Add, Finish and Apply
on the next page.
6. Select Monitor Performance
7. In the Monitor Performance Window set Short Range, Real Time,
WWN, Throughput (IOPS). In the Objects table select the WWN, Add
then Apply.
8. After 30 minutes, the graph will look as follows:

9. Using the Add Graphs button create more graphs as shown:

End of Lab Activity 3

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Lab Activity

Lab Activity 4.

Configuring Cache Partitions

Overview
Objective
Upon completion of the lab project, you will be able to configure and use
Cache Logical Partitions (CLPR) in a VSP system.

Summary of Activity
Create a new CLPR and assign an internal parity group to the new CLPR.

Reference
In addition to the Student Guide, the following Hitachi reference manual is
available to assist you in successfully completing the lab:
Performance Manager Users Guide

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1.Prepare your new CLPR Plan

1. Identify how much data cache is available on the USP VM.
Total Cache: ________________GB
2. Identify which internal parity groups you will assign to new CLPR 1
a. Parity group ____________, _____________, _______________
b. Be sure to select the parity group that has the LDEVs and I/O
activity being performed on it.

2.Configure the new CLPR

1. Use Storage Navigator and follow the Settings > Partition Definition
menu path to open the legacy Storage Navigator cache partition
configuration screen.

3.Create a new CLPR

1. Right Click on CLPR and create a new Partition CLPR0

4.Assign internal Parity Group to the new CLPR

1. Right click the selected Parity Group and cut and paste it from CLPR
0 to the new CLPR1. Select the parity group with the LDEVs and I/O
activity being performed.
2. Go back to the performance monitor and observe the reassigned
Parity Group operating in the new CLPR. Is there any change in the
performance?

End of Lab Activity 4

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Lab Activity

Lab Activity 5. Command Line Interface

(CLI) / RAIDCOM
Overview
Objective
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to create CLI scripts.

Summary of Activity
Perform the setup for out-of-band execution and run various raidcom
commands.
In addition, execute some of the provided scripts.

Reference
Hitachi Command Control Interface (CCI) Command Reference Manual

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Lab Activity
Out of Band Setup
This lab was set up on a Windows host (10.4.9.1) on the same subnet as the
SVP (10.4.9.X) in order to eliminate any issues with port blocking by firewalls,
and so on. Your actual configuration will vary depending upon your lab
configuration.
Perform the following numerated steps and the results should be as shown:
1. Create a horcm1.conf file as shown and save it in the windows folder.
C:\HORCM\etc>type c:\windows\horcm1.conf
HORCM_CMD
#dev_name
dev_name
dev_name
\\.\IPCMD-10.4.9.3-31001
2. Check to see if HORCMINST=1; if not, then set HORCMINST=1
C:\HORCM\etc>set | find "hor"
horcminst=1
3. Start up HORCM
C:\HORCM\etc>horcmstart.exe 1
starting HORCM inst 1
HORCM inst 1 starts successfully.
4. Login and authenticate
C:\HORCM\etc>raidcom -login maintenance raid-mainte

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5. Execute the following raidcom command

C:\HORCM\etc>raidcom
PORT TYPE ATTR SPD
CL1-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL1-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL2-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL2-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL3-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL3-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL4-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL4-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL5-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL5-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL6-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL6-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL7-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL7-B FIBRE TAR AUT
CL8-A FIBRE TAR AUT
CL8-B FIBRE TAR AUT

get port
ALPA FAB CONN SSW SL Serial# WWN
EF N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1100
E1 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1101
D9 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1110
D3 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1111
E8 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1120
E0 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1121
D6 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1130
D2 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1131
E4 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1140
DC N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1141
D5 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1150
D1 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1151
E2 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1160
DA N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1161
D4 N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1170
CE N FCAL N
0
53009 50060e8006cf1171

6. The next step will be to try other raidcom commands using Section 5 of the
Hitachi Command Control Interface Command Reference. Also various
sample scripts are provided in the rest of the lab for demonstration. Issue
raidcom commands to do the following:
7. Reporting parity groups
8. Reporting parity group detail
9. Reporting LDEV information
10.

Create a command device

11.

Reassign an MP blade

End of Lab Activity 5

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