Hitachi Command Suite 8 User Guide

							Hitachi Command Suite
Hitachi Command Suite User Guide
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							Contents
Preface............................................................................................... 13
Intended audience................................................................................................. 14 Product version...................................................................................................... 14Release notes........................................................................................................ 14Document revision level..........................................................................................14Related documents.................................................................................................15Document conventions........................................................................................... 15Conventions for storage capacity values................................................................... 16 Accessing product documentation........................................................................... 17 Getting help...........................................................................................................17Comments............................................................................................................. 17
1 Overview of Hitachi Command Suite......................................................19 About Hitachi Command Suite................................................................................. 20Features................................................................................................................ 21What's new............................................................................................................22System configuration.............................................................................................. 23Process flow.......................................................................................................... 26 Navigating the interface..........................................................................................27Navigating help...................................................................................................... 29
2 Setting up Hitachi Command Suite........................................................ 31 Configuring Hitachi Command Suite.........................................................................32Configuring your browser and Java for Hitachi Command Suite..................................32 About configuring browser settings.................................................................... 32Checking management server name resolution................................................... 33Disabling pop-up blocking for Internet Explorer...................................................34Setting security options for using Internet Explorer............................................. 35Setting security options for Firefox..................................................................... 36 Setting the Java™ Web Start (versions 6.0 and 7.0) proxy to link with other products.......................................................................................................... 37Configuring JRE versions from JWS version 6.0................................................... 38
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							Clearing the cache (JWS v6.0) when upgrading Hitachi Command Suite............... 38
Logging in to Hitachi Command Suite...................................................................... 39 Logging in when HCS is not available.......................................................................40 Setting up security................................................................................................. 41 About configuring security options..................................................................... 41Setting a password policy.................................................................................. 41Setting automatic account locking...................................................................... 42 Setting a warning banner message.................................................................... 42
Downloading components....................................................................................... 43 About downloading components........................................................................ 43Downloading agents, CLI, and Host Data Collector files....................................... 43
Managing HCS licenses........................................................................................... 43 About HCS license management........................................................................ 44Registering an HCS license................................................................................ 44 Checking HCS license information...................................................................... 45
Managing Storage Navigator licenses....................................................................... 45 About license key types..................................................................................... 45Installing a software application.........................................................................46Enabling a license............................................................................................. 47Disabling a license............................................................................................ 47Removing a software application........................................................................48 Updating license status..................................................................................... 49Viewing license information............................................................................... 49License information on the License Keys window.................................................50
3 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets...................... 53 Setting up storage resources................................................................................... 54
Registering storage systems....................................................................................54 About registering and removing a storage system............................................... 55Prerequisites for registering a storage system..................................................... 55Registering a storage system............................................................................. 57Changing storage system information.................................................................58
About acquiring the most recent storage system information............................... 59 Acquiring the most recent storage system information.........................................60Operations available to SMI-S enabled storage systems....................................... 60
Registering hosts................................................................................................... 61 About registering a host.................................................................................... 61Methods for registering hosts............................................................................ 61Priority for acquiring the WWN or iSCSI name.....................................................63Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector....................................................64Registering hosts manually by specifying the WWN or iSCSI name....................... 65
Registering hosts using host scan...................................................................... 66 Registering hosts using merge hosts.................................................................. 67About changing host settings and information.....................................................68Workflow for detecting hosts............................................................................. 69 Updating host information registered by using Host Data Collector....................... 70 Changing settings for a manually registered host................................................ 71Changing settings for a host registered by using Device Manager agent................72About removing hosts and releasing associated resources................................... 73Removing hosts and releasing associated resources............................................ 74
Registering file servers........................................................................................... 754Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							About registering and removing file servers........................................................ 75Environment settings for Hitachi NAS Platform family.......................................... 77 Registering file servers...................................................................................... 78Changing the name of a file server.....................................................................79Changing the Admin services EVS settings of Hitachi NAS Platform.......................80
4 Setting up users and access control...................................................... 83 Setting up users and access control......................................................................... 84About user accounts and controlling access to resources........................................... 84Creating and managing user accounts..................................................................... 87 Creating a user account.................................................................................... 87User ID and password policies........................................................................... 87 Editing the profile for a user account..................................................................88Editing your own user profile............................................................................. 89Changing the password for a user account......................................................... 89 Changing your own password............................................................................ 90 Changing permissions for a user account............................................................ 90Changing the lock status of user accounts.......................................................... 91 Configuring external authentication for users...................................................... 91Configuring external authentication for groups.................................................... 92 Deleting user accounts...................................................................................... 94
Controlling access to resources............................................................................... 94 About access control......................................................................................... 94Access control examples....................................................................................96 About resource groups...................................................................................... 97Prerequisites for creating resource groups.......................................................... 99Creating resource groups.................................................................................100 Editing a resource group................................................................................. 100 Deleting resource groups.................................................................................101About user groups.......................................................................................... 102User group roles............................................................................................. 104Custom roles.................................................................................................. 105 Required roles and resource groups by function................................................ 108 Creating user groups....................................................................................... 127Editing a user group........................................................................................128Assigning resource groups and roles to a user group......................................... 129 Changing a user’s user group...........................................................................129 Deleting user groups....................................................................................... 129
5 Provisioning storage........................................................................... 131 Creating a storage operating environment.............................................................. 132Allocating storage.................................................................................................133Creating and deleting parity groups....................................................................... 134 About creating parity groups............................................................................134Creating parity groups..................................................................................... 135 Create parity groups dialog box........................................................................136About deleting parity groups............................................................................ 137 Deleting parity groups..................................................................................... 138
Creating and deleting volumes.............................................................................. 139 About creating volumes................................................................................... 1395Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							Notes on performing quick formats.................................................................. 140Creating volumes............................................................................................ 140Create Volumes dialog box...............................................................................141About shredding volume data.......................................................................... 144Shredding volume data....................................................................................144 About deleting unallocated volumes................................................................. 145Deleting unallocated volumes.......................................................................... 146About creating a LUSE volume......................................................................... 146 Creating a LUSE volume.................................................................................. 147About releasing a LUSE volume........................................................................148 Releasing a LUSE volume................................................................................ 148
Virtualizing external storage.................................................................................. 149 About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes.................................................... 149Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system........................................... 151 Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system............. 152Unvirtualizing volumes.....................................................................................154 Virtualize Volumes dialog box...........................................................................155
Virtualizing storage capacity (HDP/HDT)................................................................ 160 About virtualizing storage capacity................................................................... 160Creating a DP pool.......................................................................................... 162Create Pool dialog box.....................................................................................164 Verifying DP pool information...........................................................................168Expanding DP pools........................................................................................ 169Shrinking a DP pool.........................................................................................171 Modifying DP pool settings...............................................................................172Deleting DP pools........................................................................................... 172Expanding DP volumes.................................................................................... 173 Reclaiming zero pages.....................................................................................174 Changing an access attribute to read/write....................................................... 174
Virtualizing storage tiers (HDT)..............................................................................175 About virtualizing storage tiers......................................................................... 175Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of HDT pools................................ 178 Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of an HDT pool......................... 178
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of HDT pools..................................... 179 Editing tier relocation for HDT volumes............................................................. 180Applying a tiering policy to HDT volumes.......................................................... 180Customizing a tiering policy for HDT volumes.................................................... 181 Notes on data placement profiles for HDT volumes............................................182Creating a data placement profile for HDT volumes........................................... 183 Updating a data placement profile for HDT volumes.......................................... 184Editing a data placement profile for HDT volumes............................................. 185Applying a data placement profile for HDT volumes........................................... 186 Scheduling data placement profiles for HDT volumes......................................... 187Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for an HDT pool....................................... 187
Allocating and unallocating volumes.......................................................................188 About allocating volumes................................................................................. 188Volume allocation methods.............................................................................. 190Prerequisites for allocating volumes..................................................................192 Allocating volumes from general tasks.............................................................. 192 Allocating volumes to selected hosts................................................................ 193Allocating volumes to selected file servers........................................................ 194Allocating selected volumes to hosts................................................................ 1956Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							Allocating volumes to clustered hosts............................................................... 196Allocating volumes by using a keyword search.................................................. 198Allocating volumes by using a criteria search.................................................... 199Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings......................................... 199 Allocate Volumes dialog box.............................................................................200About clustered-host storage........................................................................... 210 Creating clustered-host storage........................................................................211About unallocating volumes............................................................................. 213 Unallocating volumes from hosts...................................................................... 214Unallocating volumes from file servers..............................................................215Unallocate volumes dialog box......................................................................... 216
Configuring Fibre Channel ports.............................................................................218 Enabling LUN security on a port....................................................................... 218Disabling LUN security on a port...................................................................... 219Setting the data transfer speed on a Fibre Channel port.....................................220 Setting the Fibre Channel port address............................................................. 221 Setting the fabric switch.................................................................................. 222
Managing LUN Paths.............................................................................................223 About LUN path management.......................................................................... 223Editing LUN paths........................................................................................... 224Editing the host mode and host mode options...................................................226Editing LUN paths when exchanging a failed HBA.............................................. 227Editing LUN paths when adding or exchanging an HBA...................................... 228 Removing LUN paths after adding an HBA........................................................ 230
Managing Hitachi NAS Platform file systems and shares.......................................... 231 About managing Hitachi NAS Platform file systems and shares........................... 231Workflow for providing NAS Platform file shares................................................ 234Conditions for parity groups that are used in storage pools................................ 236 Best practices for configuring storage pools...................................................... 237Notes on NAS Platform file system capacity...................................................... 238Notes on setting LUN paths for NAS Platform.................................................... 239 Creating a NAS Platform storage pool (v11.3 or later)........................................ 239Expanding a NAS Platform storage pool (v11.3 or later)..................................... 240Changing a NAS Platform storage pool name.................................................... 241 Creating a NAS Platform storage pool (earlier than v11.3)..................................242Expanding a NAS Platform storage pool (earlier than v11.3)...............................243 Changing NAS Platform storage pool settings.................................................... 244Deleting NAS Platform storage pools................................................................ 245Creating a NAS Platform file system................................................................. 245 Expanding a NAS Platform file system.............................................................. 247Changing NAS Platform file system settings...................................................... 248 Mounting NAS Platform file systems................................................................. 249Unmounting NAS Platform file systems............................................................. 249 Deleting a NAS Platform file system..................................................................250Adding NAS Platform file shares....................................................................... 251 Changing NAS Platform file share settings.........................................................252Deleting NAS Platform file shares..................................................................... 253
Managing Hitachi NAS Platform F and Hitachi Data Ingestor file systems and shares. 254 About managing Hitachi NAS Platform F and Hitachi Data Ingestor file systems andshares............................................................................................................254Workflow for providing HNAS F and HDI file shares (HFSM)............................... 255 Creating HNAS F or HDI file systems (HFSM v3.2 or later)................................. 2577Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							Creating HDI file systems (HFSM v3.1)............................................................. 258Changing HNAS F or HDI file system settings (HFSM v3.1 or later)..................... 259Deleting HNAS F or HDI file systems................................................................ 260
File share configuration examples.................................................................... 260
6 Managing virtual storage machines......................................................263 About virtual storage machines............................................................................. 264Prerequisites for allocating resources to virtual storage machines.............................268Creating virtual storage machines.......................................................................... 269
Allocating volumes to hosts by using virtual storage machine resources....................270 Editing virtual storage machines............................................................................ 271 Deleting virtual storage machines.......................................................................... 273
7 Replicating volumes for continuous access........................................... 275 About global-active device.................................................................................... 276
Setting up a global-active device environment........................................................ 282 About global-active device setup...................................................................... 282Prerequisites for global-active device setup....................................................... 284Select primary and secondary storage systems..................................................285 Configuring remote paths................................................................................ 286Configuring the quorum disk............................................................................287 Configuring pair management servers.............................................................. 289Configuring the virtual storage machine............................................................290
Monitoring and managing global-active device pairs................................................ 291 Allocating global-active device pairs................................................................. 291Allocating global-active device pairs using existing volumes................................293
Adding redundancy to open-allocated volumes.................................................. 295 Checking global-active device pair status.......................................................... 297 Protecting global-active device pairs................................................................. 298Monitoring global-active device pair performance.............................................. 299 Unallocating global-active device pairs..............................................................301Unallocating individual global-active device volumes.......................................... 302
Recovering from global-active device failures..........................................................303 About global-active device failures................................................................... 303Recovering from HBA-related host path failures.................................................304
Discontinuing a global-active device environment................................................... 305 Volume replication................................................................................................ 306 About replicating volumes (pair management).................................................. 307Copy pair management operations................................................................... 308Adding command devices................................................................................ 308Editing command devices................................................................................ 309 Defining copy pairs......................................................................................... 309Changing the status of a copy pair................................................................... 310 Deleting command devices.............................................................................. 311
8 Optimizing storage performance..........................................................313 About optimizing storage...................................................................................... 314About optimizing HBA configurations..................................................................... 315 Adding an HBA............................................................................................... 3168Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							About high temperature mode...............................................................................317Enabling high temperature mode for VSP G1000 storage systems.......................318
Managing cache logical partitions.......................................................................... 318 Creating a CLPR..............................................................................................318Migrating resources to and from a CLPR........................................................... 320 Editing the settings of an existing CLPR............................................................ 321Adjusting the cache capacity of a CLPR............................................................ 322 Deleting a CLPR.............................................................................................. 323
Data mobility....................................................................................................... 324 About data mobility......................................................................................... 324Reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab...................................... 326
Reports for DP pools displayed in the Mobility tab............................................. 326
Optimizing data placement in a logical group.................................................... 328
Optimizing data placement in a DP pool............................................................329
Data migration..................................................................................................... 330 About data migration...................................................................................... 330Notes on performing data migration................................................................. 332 Conditions for data migration........................................................................... 332 Migrating data for volume performance............................................................ 338Migrating data to a different storage system..................................................... 339 Migrate data dialog box................................................................................... 341Prerequisites for migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system............................................................................................... 345Migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system..................................................................................................................... 346
9 Grouping resources............................................................................ 349 Managing logical groups....................................................................................... 350 About logical groups....................................................................................... 350Creating logical groups.................................................................................... 355 Viewing logical group reports........................................................................... 356Editing logical groups...................................................................................... 357 Performing operations from a logical group....................................................... 357Deleting logical groups.................................................................................... 358
Managing storage tiers......................................................................................... 358 About tier-based storage management............................................................. 358Values to ensure acceptable tier performance................................................... 359Creating tiers..................................................................................................359 Expanding a tier............................................................................................. 360Deleting tiers.................................................................................................. 361
10 Managing storage system information................................................. 363 Managing resource labels......................................................................................364 About managing resource labels...................................................................... 364Editing resource labels.................................................................................... 365 Searching resource labels................................................................................ 365Importing storage system resource labels......................................................... 366
Managing WWNs by using nicknames.................................................................... 366 About managing WWNs by using nicknames..................................................... 366Editing a WWN nickname................................................................................ 3689Hitachi Command Suite User Guide 
						

							Searching HCS resources...................................................................................... 369About searching HCS resources........................................................................369Keyword search.............................................................................................. 370 Criteria search................................................................................................ 371Criteria search dialog box................................................................................ 372
Generating resource reports.................................................................................. 375 About generating reports.................................................................................375Exporting host information to a CSV file............................................................375Exporting file server information to a CSV file....................................................376Exporting logical group information to a CSV file............................................... 377Exporting search results to a CSV file............................................................... 377 Exporting access control information for resources to a CSV file......................... 378
Using reports to verify system changes.................................................................. 378 Viewing a Device Manager - Storage Navigator report....................................... 378Downloading and viewing a system configuration report.................................... 379Viewing a report in the Reports window............................................................379Creating a configuration report........................................................................ 380 Deleting a configuration report.........................................................................380
11 Managing tasks..................................................................................381 About tasks..........................................................................................................382Customizing which tasks display in the global monitoring bar...................................385 Viewing HCS task status....................................................................................... 385Rescheduling HCS tasks waiting to be executed...................................................... 386Stopping running data migration or data placement profile tasks............................. 386
Canceling scheduled HCS tasks............................................................................. 387 Moving HCS tasks to the HCS Task History tab........................................................387Restarting a failed or stopped HCS task..................................................................388Deleting HCS tasks............................................................................................... 389Viewing system task status................................................................................... 389Managing system tasks......................................................................................... 390 Troubleshooting system tasks................................................................................ 391Viewing data collection task status........................................................................ 392Restarting a data collection task............................................................................ 393
12  Monitoring managed resources and resolving alerts............................. 395 Monitoring storage resources................................................................................ 396Viewing information summaries............................................................................. 397 About checking system status in the dashboard................................................ 397
Accessing the dashboard................................................................................. 399 Customizing the dashboard..............................................................................400About the Storage Systems tree....................................................................... 401 Viewing current storage system information......................................................401 Viewing MP Blade information.......................................................................... 401About the Hosts tree....................................................................................... 402Viewing current host information......................................................................402 About the file server view................................................................................ 403 Monitoring file servers..................................................................................... 403
Analyzing storage system performance.................................................................. 403 About analyzing storage system performance....................................................40310Hitachi Command Suite User Guide