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Aravindhan Subramanian
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Agenda
Configuring new fixed block storage
Managing your logical storage configuration
Server decommissioning

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Configuring new fixed block storage
Create extent pools
Create Arrays
Create Ranks
Create fixed block volumes
Create volume groups
Configuring fibre channel I/O ports
Creating host port connections
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Extent pools
Creating the extent pools before the arrays and ranks saves a
processing step
Each extent pool is defined with the rank group of 0 or 1 and a
storage type of fb.
Create extent pool
dscli>mkextpool -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -rankgrp 0 -stgtype fb P0
Verify that the extent pool has been created
dscli>lsextpool -dev storage_image_ID -l
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Arrays
Find the arraysite that are in the un-assigned state
dscli>lsarraysite -dev storage_image_ID -state unassigned
Create the array with RAID type
dscli>mkarray -dev storage_image_ID -raidtype [5 | 10] -arsite array_site
Make sure the array is created
dscli>lsarray l (or) dscli>lsarraysite -l

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Ranks
A rank is a logically contiguous storage space that is made up of one array
The rank configuration state is unassigned until it is assigned to an extent
pool.
Note: You can assign a rank to an unassigned array and also assign the
rank to an extent pool at the same time if you have already created the
extent pools and the arrays. Creating extent pools first saves a step in the
configuration.
Listing out arrays with unassigned state
dscli>lsarray -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -state unassigned
Creating Rank
dscli>mkrank -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -array A44 -stgtype fb -extpool p1
Verify that the rank is created
dscli>lsrank -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -l
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Volumes
To View your list of fixed block extent pool IDs
dscli>lsextpool -dev IBM.2107-13AAD7A -stgtype fb -l
To view the available address group
dscli> lsaddressgrp -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -l
Select a address group that can used for the creation of volumes
To view the LSS available in that address group
dscli> lslss -addrgrp 2
Determine which lss id to use
To view the volumes already created in that lss issue the command
dscli> lsfbvol -lss 20
create the fb volume
dscli>mkfbvol -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -extpool P1 -name finance#d -cap 8.6
0100-010F

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Volume Group
To create a volume group
dscli>mkvolgrp -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 -hosttype pSeries -
volume 0001-0010,0120 my_nickname
To check if the volume group is created properly
dscli>lsvolgrp -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 l
We can use hosttype (or) type
dscli> mkvolgrp dev IBM.2107-75amar1 type scsimap256
volme 230C DCASESX001_VG
Types
scsimask,scsimap256,scsiall,os400all,os400mask,ficonall


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Host connection
To create a host connection
dscli>mkhostconnect -dev storage_image_ID -wwname
wwpn -hosttype host_type -volgrp volume_group_ID -
ioport port_ID host_name

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Managing your logical storage configuration
Extent pool
Arraystie
Array
Rank
LSS
Volumes
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Extent pool
Modifying an extent pool
dscli>chextpool -dev storage_image_ID -name new_extent_pool_name -extentlimit
[on | off] -limit extent_limit_percentage -threshold extent_threshold_percentage -
extentpool_ID
extentlimit Whether to limit the extent allocation as specified in the
limitextent_limit_percentage
threshold minimum no of extents that should be available
Viewing extent pool status
dscli>showextpool -dev storage_image_ID extentpool_ID (or) lsextpool dev
storage_image_ID extentpool_ID
Viewing extent pool performance metrics
dscli>showextpool -dev storage_image_ID -metrics extentpool_ID
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Extent pool
Deleting an extent pool
The volumes associated with the extent pool must be removed.
The logical control units (LCUs) that are associated with the extent pool must be
removed. ( For CKD only)
The ranks that are assigned to the extent pool must be unassigned or removed.
The arrays that are assigned to the extent pool must be removed.
dscli>rmextpool -dev storage_image_ID extentpool_ID
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Arraysite
To view individual DDMs
dscli>lsddm -l storage_image_ID
To view array site status
dscli>showarraysite storage_image_ID -fullid site_ID

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Array
Viewing the status of array / arrays
dscli>lsarray -dev storage_image_ID -l
dscli>lsarray -dev storage_image_ID -l -state unassigned
dscli>lsarray -dev storage_image_ID -l -state assigned
Viewing properties of one array
dscli>showarraysite -dev storage_image_ID site_ID
Removing arrays
Host I/O access to the volumes should be stopped
The associated volume groups should be removed
The volumes to be removed
The ranks must have been removed
dscli>lsarray -dev storage_image_ID -state unassigned
dscli>rmarray -dev storage_image_ID array_ID
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Rank
Adding a rank to an extent pool
dscli>chrank -dev storage_image_ID -extpool extentpool_ID rank_ID
To designate the rank as reserved
dscli>chrank -dev storage_image_ID -reserve rank_ID
Once a rank is designated as reserved, the extents associated with that
rank are not used for allocation, but the already allocated extents remain
intact
To release a rank from its designated reserved status
dscli>chrank -dev storage_image_ID -release rank_ID
To remove the rank from the extent pool, but not delete it
dscli>chrank -dev storage_image_ID -unassign rank_ID
Viewing rank status
dscli>lsrank -dev storage_image_ID -l
dscli>showrank -dev storage_image_ID rank_ID
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Rank - Continued
Removing (or) deleting a rank
Host access to be stopped
Associated volume group to be removed
Associated volumes to be removed
dscli>rmrank -dev storage_image_ID rank_ID