Virtual storage machines displayed in Storage Navigator

Information on the virtualized resources of a virtual storage machine appears in Storage Navigator with associated physical storage information. If the information on these resources is not displayed by default, you can change the column settings. For details about Column Settings, see the Hitachi Device Manager - Storage Navigator User Guide.

For more information about how to display the information about the virtualized resources, see the RAID Manager User Guide.

The following information on the virtualized resources can also be displayed in Storage Navigator.

Term

Description

LDEVs for which virtualization management is disabled

LDEVs that satisfy both of these conditions:

  • The model and serial number of the virtual storage machine assigned to the resource group to which an LDEV belongs is the same as the storage system managed by Storage Navigator.

  • The values of the virtual LDEV ID and the LDEV ID are the same.

LDEVs for which virtualization management is enabled

LDEVs that satisfy one of these conditions:

  • The model or serial number of the virtual storage machine assigned to the resource group to which an LDEV belongs is different from the storage system managed by Storage Navigator.

  • The model and serial number of the virtual storage machine assigned to the resource group to which an LDEV belongs is the same as the storage system managed by Storage Navigator, but virtual LDEV ID and LDEV ID are different.