Switching priority of an SPM group
All host bus adapters in one SPM group must have the same priority. Prioritized WWNs and non-prioritized WWNs cannot be mixed in one SPM group.
You can use an SPM group to switch priority of multiple HBAs from prioritized to non-prioritized, or vice versa.
Prerequisites
Required role: Storage Administrator (System Resource Management)
The Storage Navigator secondary window must be enabled.
Procedure
Display the Performance Monitor window.
In Storage Navigator:
Select Analytics in Explorer.
Select Performance Monitor in the tree to open the Performance Monitor window.
In Hitachi Command Suite:
Select the Resources tab, and expand the Storage Systems tree.
Right-click the target storage system and then select Performance Monitor.
In the Performance Monitor window, click Server Priority Manager to open the Server Priority Manager window.
Click
to change to Modify mode.
In the Server Priority Manager window, click Server Priority Manager. The Server Priority Manager main window appears.
Select the WWN tab.
In the lower-left tree, select and right-click an SPM group (
).
Do one of the following:
To switch priority from prioritized to non-prioritized, select Prio ->> Non-Prio from the pop-up menu.
To switch priority from non-prioritized to prioritized, select Non-Prio ->> Prio from the pop-up menu.
Click Apply to apply the settings to the storage system.
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