Configuring new fixed block storage

This scenario provides a high-level description of the tasks that you must perform to configure new fixed block storage within a storage unit.

Before you begin, you must have the command-line interface prompt, and you must be connected to a storage unit that is used for open systems host system storage
This scenario first creates the fixed block storage configurations and then configures the storage unit SCSI host ports to enable access to fixed block storage. You can run these two basic steps in the reverse order, but it is better to create storage configurations first, thereby creating the media to back up configuration data that is not related to the storage configuration.
  1. Create extent pools for fixed block volumes.

    An extent pool is a logical construct that is used to manage a set of extents of the same type that are associated with a given rank group.

    Creating the extent pools before the arrays and ranks saves a processing step. When you create the new ranks, you can assign them to existing extent pools. Otherwise, you must modify each rank object to complete the extent pool ID assignment after the extent pools have been defined. See Creating extent pools for fixed block volumes using the DS CLI for details.

  2. Create arrays.

    An array is an arrangement of related hard drives that have been assigned to a group. A disk array is a group of disk drive modules (DDMs) that are arranged in a relationship; for example, a RAID 5 or a RAID 10 array.

    The creation of arrays is based on the array sites that are associated with the storage unit. See Creating arrays for fixed block volumes using the DS CLI for details.

  3. Create ranks.

    A rank is a logically contiguous storage space that is made up of one or more arrays.

    You must assign a rank to every “unassigned” array object. If this is your first time creating volumes, all the arrays show a state of "unassigned". See Creating a rank using the DS CLI for details.

  4. Create fixed block volumes.

    A logical volume is the storage medium that is associated with a logical disk drive. A logical volume typically resides on one or more storage devices. It consists of one or more data extents that are allocated from a single extent pool.

    Volume attributes identify the volume to the host system that access the volume. Each volume is assigned a volume ID, which is the volume address within the storage image 64 KB address space. Host access to a volume is enabled when you assign the volume ID to a volume group object. See Creating fixed block volumes using the DS CLI for details.

  5. Create fixed block volume groups.

    A volume group is a collection of logical volumes. It identifies the set of fixed block logical volumes that are accessible by one or more SCSI host system ports.

    The volume group type determines the maximum number of volumes that can be assigned to a volume group, either a maximum of 256 volumes or a maximum of 64 000 volumes. The volume group type must be selected according to the addressing capability of the SCSI host system that uses the volume group. See Creating fixed block volume groups using the DS CLI for details.

  6. Configure fibre-channel I/O ports.

    The storage unit supports the fibre-channel host bus adapter (HBA) card type. For machine type 1750, one or two HBA cards are installed in each of the two CEC assemblies. Each fibre-channel HBA card contains four I/O ports. The storage image microcode automatically creates one I/O port object to represent each HBA card I/O port. The default fibre-channel I/O port object settings enable SCSI-FCP “identified” access to fixed block volumes. You might have to modify the I/O port object settings to enable SCSI FC-AL access to FB volumes. See Configuring fibre-channel I/O ports using the DS CLI for details.

  7. Create SCSI host port connections.

    A SCSI host port object contains attributes that identify the SCSI host system type, the port profile, the port WWPN, the volume group ID that the port accesses, and an array of storage unit I/O port IDs that the host port logs in to for volume access, or an attribute to indicate that all I/O ports can be used for volume access.

    Create one SCSI host port for each port that will access storage unit volumes. See Creating SCSI host port connections using DS CLI for details.

Related reference
setioport
lsioport
mkhostconnect
chhostconnect
lsarraysite
mkarray
lsarray
mkrank
mkextpool
lsextpool
lsaddressgrp
lslss
mkfbvol
mkvolgrp
chvolgrp
lsvolgrp
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