Create TI Pairs window

Use this window of the Create TI Pairs wizard to select LDEVs that are P-VOLs.

This window is the first window of the Create TI Pairs wizard.

Setting fields

The following table lists the items on this window of the Create TI Pairs wizard.

Item

Description

Use Primary Volumes of Thin Image Pairs

Specifies whether you want to use the Thin Image pair’s P-VOL.

Values:

  • Yes: The storage system shows only P-VOLs of the pair that is already created in the Available Primary Volumes table.

  • No: The storage system shows only LDEV of the pair that is not created yet in the Available Primary Volumes table.

Selection Object

VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models only.

Filters LDEVs in the Available LDEVs table according to port type.

Port ID

The LDEV's LUN path port identification number for which you want to filter the Available LDEVs table.

Host Group Name

The host group name of the LDEV's LUN path for which you want to filter the Available Primary Volumes table. This item is displayed if you select a Fibre Channel port for Port ID.

Default: Any

iSCSI Target Alias

The iSCSI target alias for which you want to filter the Available Primary Volumes table. This item is displayed if you select an iSCSI port for Port ID.

Default: Any

Select Pool button

Click to open the Select Pool window.

Snapshot Group

Specifies whether to create a new snapshot group or to use an existing one.

Values:

  • Create New: Enter the values of the snapshot group you want to create in Number of Snapshot Data per Primary Volume, Prefix, and Initial Number, and then select Snapshot Group Configuration.

  • Use Existing: Select Snapshot Group Configuration, and then select the snapshot group you want to use from the Available Snapshot Groups table. If you select All in Snapshot Group Configuration, enter a value for Number of Snapshot Data per Primary Volume.

Number of Snapshot Data per Primary Volume

The number of snapshot data per primary volume.

Snapshot Group Configuration

The configuration of the snapshot data.

Values:

  • P-VOL Straddle: When you select Create New in Snapshot Group, creates a snapshot group that straddles multiple primary volumes. When you select Use Existing in Snapshot Group, adds snapshot data to an existing snapshot group that you select in the Available Snapshot Groups table as straddling multiple primary volumes.

  • Per P-VOL: Creates a snapshot group for each primary volume. You can select this option if you select Create New in Snapshot Group.

  • All: When you select Create New in Snapshot Group, creates a new snapshot group and adds all snapshot data to it. When you select Use Existing in Snapshot Group, adds all snapshot data to an existing snapshot group.

Prefix

The fixed character prefix of the snapshot group.

Initial number

The initial number of the snapshot group.

Add button

Click to move the selected volumes from the Available Primary Volumes table to the Selected Primary Volumes table.

Available Snapshot Groups table

The following table lists the items in the Available Snapshot Groups table on the Create TI Pairs window.

This table is displayed if you select Use Existing in Snapshot Group.

Item

Description

Snapshot Group

The snapshot group name.

Number of Pairs

The number of snapshot group pairs.

New Snapshot Group

Indicates whether the snapshot group is new or existing.

Values:

  • Yes: Newly created snapshot group.

  • No: Already defined snapshot group.

Available Primary Volumes table

The following table lists the items in the Available Primary Volumes table on the Create TI Pairs window.

Item

Description

LDEV ID

The LDEV’s identification number which can be specified as the P-VOL.

LDEV Name

The LDEV's name.

Port ID

The port name of the LDEV's LUN path.

Host Group Name / iSCSI Target Alias

The host group name and ID or iSCSI target alias and ID of the LDEV's LUN path.

iSCSI Target Name

The iSCSI target name.

LUN ID

The LUN identification number of the LDEV's LUN path.

Provisioning Type

The LDEV’s provisioning type.

Values:

  • Basic: Internal volume.

  • HDP: DP-VOL.

  • External: External volume.

  • ALU: ALU attribute volume.

Attribute

The LDEV’s attribute.

Values:

  • ALU: ALU attribute volume.

  • SLU: SLU attribute volume.

  • Data Direct Mapping: Data Direct Mapping attribute volume.

If the volume does not have any attribute specified, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Capacity

The capacity of the LDEV.

CLPR

The LDEV’s CLPR ID.

Encryption

The LDEV’s encryption information.

  • Enabled: Encryption is enabled for the parity group to which the LDEV belongs, or a V-VOL is associated with a pool in which a pool volume has encryption enabled.

  • Disabled: Encryption is disabled for the parity group to which the LDEV belongs, or a V-VOL is associated with a pool in which a pool volume has encryption disabled.

  • Mixed: The pool to which the LDEV belongs contains both pool volumes for which encryption is enabled and ones for which encryption is disabled.

Note: Data encryption is not ensured in an LDEV with Mixed encryption status.

If the LDEV is an external volume or migration volume (VSP G1000 only), a hyphen (-) is displayed.

For DP-VOLs, the pool to which an LDEV belongs is an external volume or blocked.

T10 PI

The LDEV's T10 PI attribute information.

  • Enabled: The LDEV's T10 PI attribute is enabled.

  • Disabled: The LDEV's T10 PI attribute is disabled.

Number of Snapshot Data

The number of snapshot data to which the LDEV belongs.

Primary Volumes

If you use the LDEV as an S-VOL for an existing pair, information about the P-VOL is displayed.

Values:

  • LDEV ID: The LDEV's identification number.

  • LDEV Name: The LDEV's name.

  • Port ID: The port name of the LDEV's LUN path.

  • Host Group Name / iSCSI Target Alias: The host group name and ID or iSCSI target alias and ID of the LDEV's LUN path.

  • iSCSI Target Name: The P-VOL's iSCSI target name.

  • LUN ID: The LUN identification number of the LDEV's LUN path.

  • Capacity: The LDEV's capacity.

  • CLPR: The LDEV's CLPR ID.

Pool Name (ID)

The pool name and identification number.

Mirror Unit

The mirror unit number.

If you have not allocated an LDEV to the S-VOL for an existing pair, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Selected Primary Volumes table

The following table lists the items in the Selected LDEVs table on the Select Primary Volumes window.

Item

Description

LDEV ID

The selected P-VOL's LDEV identification number.

LDEV Name

The selected P-VOL's LDEV name.

Port ID

The port name of the LDEV's LUN path.

Host Group Name / iSCSI Target Alias

The host group name and ID or iSCSI target alias and ID of the LDEV's LUN path.

iSCSI Target Name

The iSCSI target name.

LUN ID

The LUN identification number of the LDEV's LUN path.

Attribute

The LDEV’s attribute.

Values:

  • ALU: ALU attribute volume.

  • SLU: SLU attribute volume.

  • Data Direct Mapping: Data Direct Mapping attribute volume.

If the volume does not have any attribute specified, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Capacity

The capacity of the LDEV.

Encryption

The LDEV’s encryption information.

  • Enabled: Encryption is enabled for the parity group to which the LDEV belongs, or a V-VOL is associated with a pool in which a pool volume has encryption enabled.

  • Disabled: Encryption is disabled for the parity group to which the LDEV belongs, or a V-VOL is associated with a pool in which a pool volume has encryption disabled.

  • Mixed: The pool to which the LDEV belongs contains both pool volumes for which encryption is enabled and ones for which encryption is disabled.

Note: Data encryption is not ensured in an LDEV with Mixed encryption status.

If the LDEV is an external volume or migration volume (VSP G1000 only), a hyphen (-) is displayed.

For DP-VOLs, the pool to which an LDEV belongs is an external volume or blocked.

T10 PI

The LDEV's T10 PI attribute information.

  • Enabled: The LDEV's T10 PI attribute is enabled.

  • Disabled: The LDEV's T10 PI attribute is disabled.

Snapshot Group

The snapshot group name.

New Snapshot Group

Indicates whether the snapshot group is new or existing.

Values:

  • Yes: Newly created snapshot group.

  • No: Already defined snapshot group.

Number of Snapshot Data

The number of snapshot data.

Pool Name (ID)

The pool name and identification number.

Pool Encryption

The pool's encryption information.

  • Enabled: Encryption is enabled for a pool created by the pool volume.

  • Disabled: Encryption is disabled for a pool created by the pool volume.

  • Mixed: A pool contains both pool volumes for which encryption is enabled and ones for which encryption is disabled, or volumes for which encryption is specified and an external volume.

Note: Data encryption is not ensured in an LDEV with Mixed encryption status.

For pools created in external volumes, or blocked pools, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Remove button

Click to remove the selected row from the Selected Primary Volumes table.