Configure Unused or New Disks

(FC and Navisphere Manager)

To configure unused or new disk devices for a Celerra Fibre Channel-enabled system, you can use Navisphere Manager. The Celerra Fibre Channelenabled system stores data on Celerra user LUNs. If the user LUNs are not configured correctly on the array, Celerra automatic volume management and the Celerra Manager cannot be used to manage the storage. Note: The Host ID (also called HLU) must be greater than or equal to 16 for user LUNs. An incorrect Host ID value can cause serious problems. Pay special attention to the requirement to create LUNs in equal-sized pairs, with each LUN in the pair managed by a different SP. In other words, always create two LUNs of equal size in each RAID group. To create user LUNs on your storage array for use by your Celerra system, do the following: 1. Open an Internet browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. In the browser window, enter the IP address of a storage processor (SP) that has the most recent version of the FLARE Operating Environment (OE) installed, and click Connect (Figure 1). Note: If you do not have a supported version of the JRE installed, you will be directed to the Sun website where you can select a supported version to download.

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Figure 1. Navisphere Connection login In the Login dialog box, enter the Navisphere Username and Password and click OK (Figure 2). The default values are usernamenasadmin and password nasadmin. Note: If you changed the Control Station password during the Celerra Startup Assistant, the Celerra credentials were changed to use the same passwords. You must use the new password for your Navisphere credentials.

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Figure 2. Navisphere Manager login

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In the Storage Domain, expand the backend storage array, and then right-click RAID Groups and select Create RAID Group to create a RAID group for the user LUNs that you would like to create (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Navisphere Manager tree

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Enter the RAID Group properties and click Apply to create the new RAID group, as shown in the example in Figure 4. The RAID Group Parameter values should be applicable to your system. For more information, see NAS Support Matrix document on http://Powerlink.EMC.com.

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To complete the previous step, click Yes to confirm the operation, click OK for the Success dialog box, and close (or click Cancel) the Create RAID Group window.

Figure 4. Create RAID Group screen

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Right-click the newly created RAID Group and select Bind LUN to create a new LUN in the new RAID Group, as shown in the example in Figure

Enter the new LUN properties and click Apply. Note: The LUN ID must be greater than or equal to 16 if the LUN is to be managed with Celerra Manager.

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Figure 5. Bind LUN screen The following list describes the recommended best practices:

Always create user LUNs in balanced pairs; one owned by SP A and one owned by SP B. The paired LUNs must be equal size. Selecting the Autoradio button in the Default Owner will automatically assign and balance the pairs. For Fibre Channel disks, the paired LUNs do not have to be in the same RAID group. For RAID 5 on Fibre Channel disks, the RAID group must use five or nine disks. RAID 1 groups always use two disks. For ATA disks, all LUNs in a RAID group must belong to the same SP. The Celerra system will stripe across pairs of disks from different RAID groups. ATA disks can be configured as RAID 5 with seven disks or RAID 3 with five or nine disks. Use the same LUN ID number for the Host ID number. We recommend the following settings when creating the user LUNs: RAID Type: RAID 5 or RAID 1 for FC disks and RAID 5 or RAID 3 for ATA disks LUN ID: Select the first available value, greater than or equal to 16 Element Size: 128 Rebuild Priority: ASAP Verify Priority: ASAP Enable Read Cache: Selected Enable Write Cache: Selected Enable Auto Assign: the checkbox is unmarked (off) Number of LUNs to Bind: 2 Alignment Offset: 0

LUN Size: Must not exceed 2 TB Note: If you are creating 4+1 RAID 3 LUNs, the Number of LUNs to Bind value should be 1.

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To complete the previous step, click Yes to confirm the operation, click OK for the Success dialog box, and close (or click Cancel) the Bind LUN window.

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To add LUNs to the Celerra storage group, expand Storage Groups, right-click the Celerra storage group, and select Select LUNs.

Figure 6. Select LUNs screen

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Maximize the Storage Group Properties window and in the Available LUNs section, select the new LUN(s) by expanding thee navigation trees beneath SP A and SP B and clicking the checkbox(se) for the new LUNs, as shown in the example in Figure 6. Clicking the checkbox(es) causes the new LUN(s) to appear in the Selected LUNs section.

Note that in the Selected LUNs section, the Host ID for the new LUN(s) is blank. Warning: Do not uncheck LUNs that are already checked in the Available LUNs section when you open the dialog. Unchecking these LUNs will render your system inoperable. In the Selected LUNs section, click in the white space in the Host ID column and select a Host ID greater than 15 for each new LUN to be added to the Celerra storage group. Click OK to add the new LUN(s) to the Celerra storage group (Figure 7). Warning: The Host ID must be greater than or equal to 16 for user LUNs. An incorrect Host ID value can cause serious problems.

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To complete the previous step, click Yes to confirm the operation to add LUNs to the storage group, and click OK for the Success dialog box.

Figure 7. Selecting LUNs host ID screen

Where <control station> is the hostname or IP address of the Control Station.

14. To make the new LUN(s) available to the Celerra system, Celerra Manager must be used. Launch the Celerra Manager by opening Celerra Manager using the following URL: https:// <control station>

15. If a security alert appears about the system's security certificate, click Yes to
proceed.

16. At the login prompt, log in as user root. The default password is nasadmin. 17. If a security warning appears about the system's security certificate being issued by
an untrusted source, click Yes to accept the certificate.

18. If a warning about a hostname mismatch appears, click Yes. 19. To make the new user LUNs available to the Celerra system, on
the Celerra>Storage Systems page, clickRescan (Figure 8).
CAUTION: Do not change the host LUN identifier of the Celerra LUNs after rescanning. This may cause data loss or unavailability. The user LUNs are now available for the Celerra system use.