Running the Application

1. Click on Start Menu, Programs, Navisphere Simulation vx.x

2. There are three choices, Launch Navisphere Simulator, Reset Navisphere
Simulator, and Uninstall Navisphere Simulator.
3. Click on Launch Navisphere Simulator.
4. ALT: Click on C:\Program Files\Navisphere Simulation vx.x\classes\Launch
Navisphere.html
When prompted with Navisphere Login, enter User Name: manager, and password:
manager. Choose Global under Global/Local.

Exercise One – Navigating Navisphere

This exercise focuses on basic navigation of the drill-down item list. Be sure to try to
locate every single Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) on the four arrays.
1. Click on the “+” next to the array marked “FC700-1”.
2. Expand the Physical Tree all the way out. Examine all the different components
visible here.
3. See how many enclosures and disk drives there in this particular array.
4. Expand the RAID Groups tree and see how many RAID Groups are pre-created.
These RAID Groups are just part of the simulator and not typical of a factory
clean CLARiiON.
5. Right-click on the RAID Group and select Properties. Click on the different tabs
to see what the settings are for that particular Group.

Exercise Two – Setting Cache

There are two main steps to setting up cache on an array: assigning memory to Write
Cache and SPA & B Read Cache and enabling cache. Until you perform both of these
steps, all activity will be spindle-bound.
1. In the Storage Tab, right-click on the array marked FC4700-1, and select
Properties.
2. Click on the Memory tab.
3. Note the Total Memory, SP Usage, and Free Memory.
4. We will be setting up 10% of free memory on each SP as Read Cache, and 90%
write cache.
5. Type in the boxes under “User Customizable Partitions” the values you’ve
chosen. \
6. Click OK when done – Then click yes on the Confirmation box.
7. Click on the Cache Tab (under the same Array Properties Box)
8. Enable Read and Write Caching and watermark processing for the both SP’s.
9. Click Apply then OK.

Exercise Three – Creating RAID Groups

Here, we will create a 5 disk RAID 5 Group to which we later bind LUNs. We are
basically reserving a bunch of disks which will work together. Until we bind a LUN,
there is no RAID Type.
1. We are going to create a RAID Group with the following characteristics:
• RAID 5
 • RAID Group ID 0x01
• Using disks Bus 1, Enclosure 0, Disks 0 through 4
2. Right-click on the FC4700-1 Array and select Create RAID Group
• Choose Manual Disk Selection to get the right disks in the group
• Use the Student Guide from today as a reference.
• Click Apply when done.

Exercise Four – Binding LUNs

Here is where we will create host-mountable volumes. They will be striped onto the
RAID Group created in the previous exercise. When we bind the first LUN, we will be
assigning the RAID type. Subsequent LUNs on that RAID group will automatically have
the same RAID Type.
1. Right-click on the FC4700-1 Array and select Bind LUN
• RAID Type is RAID 5
• “RAID Group for new LUN” is 0x01 (the one we just created)
• The LUN ID for the first LUN will be 0x10
• Default Owner will be SPA
• LUN Size will be 10 GB
• Everything else should be left as the default.
• Click Apply.
2. We will bind 5 more LUNs, all the same size, alternating between SPB and SPA.
In total there should be 6 LUNs, ID’s 0x10 – 0x15, 3 on SPA, 3 on SPB