About virtual storage machines and virtualized resources

The following describes the relationship between virtual storage machines and a storage system.

Virtual storage machines are created with operations involving data migration or the high availability function. Other than those operations, a user cannot create virtual storage machines in a storage system. For information on removing virtual storage machines, see the Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide.

Information on the virtualized resources of a virtual storage machine appears in Device Manager - Storage Navigator with associated physical storage information. If the information on these resources is not displayed by default, you can change the column settings in the table options.

For information on displaying virtualized resources, see the Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide.

The following terms about virtualized resources appear in Device Manager - Storage Navigator windows.

Term

Description

LDEVs for which virtualization management is disabled

LDEVs that satisfy both of these conditions:

  • The model name and serial number of the virtual storage machine that manages a resource group with LDEVs is the same as the storage system involved in the operation.

  • 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 name and serial number of the virtual storage machine that manages a resource group with LDEVs is different than the storage system involved in the operation.

  • The model name and serial number of the virtual storage machine that manages a resource group with LDEVs is the same as the storage system involved in the operation. Yet, the values of the virtual LDEV ID and the LDEV ID are different.