TCI2109 Lab Guide v2 0
TCI2109 Lab Guide v2 0
TCI2109 Lab Guide v2 0
Implementing
Hitachi Unified Storage
TCI2109
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HDS Academy 1042
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. V
LAB ACTIVITY 1 COMPONENT LOCATIONS ................................................................. 1-1
LAB ACTIVITY 2 INSTALLATION ................................................................................. 2-1
LAB ACTIVITY 3 USING THE WEB TOOL ..................................................................... 3-1
LAB ACTIVITY 4 HITACHI STORAGE NAVIGATOR MODULAR 2: INSTALLATION AND
CONFIGURATION .................................................................................................. 4-1
LAB ACTIVITY 5 SETTING UP RAID GROUPS AND LUNS ............................................ 5-1
LAB ACTIVITY 6 ALLOCATING STORAGE .................................................................... 6-1
LAB ACTIVITY 7 PATH MANAGEMENT ........................................................................ 7-1
Procedure
The students will be divided into lab groups and will perform the lab project on the
lab equipment assigned to them by their instructor.
Disclaimer
These lab projects are designed to be used in a training environment to transfer
concepts of using and configuring the functions and features of Hitachi Unified
Storage family to you. They are not intended to replace any published Hitachi users
guide concerning the topics and procedures presented in the lab project. When
attempting to use or configure any function or feature of the Hitachi Unified Storage,
the user should always refer to the specific user guide.
Beginning Configuration
Before the start of class, an initial microcode load should have been performed by
your instructor to clear out any existing configuration and put the storage system
into a known state. The system should have no configured RAID groups or LUNs,
no port host groups, and no license keys installed.
Reference Material
Several Hitachi reference manuals are available on the Microsoft® Windows® host
system and possibly via a shared resource system.
Hitachi Unified Storage Product Documentation Library
Hitachi Unified Storage Maintenance Library
The Help facility of the HSNM 2 GUI
Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 – Online Help
Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 Command Line Interface (CLI) User’s Guide
Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 Graphical User Interface (GUI) User’s Guide
Hitachi storage system user’s guide
The Help facility of the GUI
The Help facility of the HSNM 2 GUI
Overview
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to identify and locate
hardware components
What type of module is at the bottom (the first module) of your assigned storage
system? _______________________________
What type of modules are stacked above the bottom (or first module) module?
________________________________
Identify the
following:
Management LAN
Reset button
Power ON/OFF
Power supply
Controller
Identify:
Disk type
ENC on rear
Identify:
Disk Type
ENC on rear
Identify the:
Management LAN
Reset button
Power ON/OFF
Power supply
Controller
Identify the:
Reset button
Power ON/OFF
Battery, fan
Controller
Identify the:
IO modules for
SAS, FC, LAN ports
Power supply
Management LAN
2. Go to the rear of the storage system and look at the bottom module. How does it
differ from the second module up from the bottom? ________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Lab 1 – End
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to:
Identify management and maintenance LAN connections
Identify Fibre Channel connections
Verify the connections of the ENC cables from the base unit to the accompanying
expansion units
Apply power to the rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
Power up the storage system and verify its Ready status
1. Verify how the ENC cables are connected between the modules:
2. For HUS 150, Press the MAIN-SW located in the front of the array.
Lab 2 – End
Introduction
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to:
Use a Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer to connect to the
Hitachi Unified Storage in Normal mode
Display status of the individual components of the storage system
Display Warning Information
Use the Simple Trace function of the Web Tool, and dump trace information of
storage system controller to a file on the connected host system
Perform the Full Dump process
Configure Java to allow the Web tool to load microcode to the Hitachi Unified
Storage Array.
Update the microcode and initialize the system
Preliminary Notes
This lab assumes that your storage system is attached via an Ethernet link to the
host PC. If not, you should arrange to make a suitable connection. Ping the
storage system to check the connection.
Microsoft Windows 2003 will require changing the browser security setting from
High to Medium.
If possible, set the PC to Disable DNS or else the connection will take a very long
time.
Set the browser so that a proxy server is not used.
2. In the System Status panel, click the disk icon. (Depending on the number of
expansion units, you should see something like the screen shot below.)
3. Click the Main link to return to the main screen and then click on one of the other
component icons. Repeat this process until you have inspected each component.
Note: Answers to embedded questions such as the following question can be found
at the end of the lab project.
After the drive spun up what did the Drive Access LED do? _________________
________________________________________________________________________
9. Click the Warning Information link (you should see messages).
• System Copy Started
• System Copy Completed
10. Back out (about 1 inch) any other drive except one of the first five drives.
11. Click the Disk Drive link.
Why was copy-back of this drive not performed like it was for the third drive?
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Collect a Trace
When in Normal Mode, the Hitachi Unified Storage system allows the collection of
trace information three ways: Simple Trace, CTL Alarm Trace. When in
Maintenance mode you can collect the Full Dump.
The information is stored in the cache during normal operation. Before performing
either operation, the user should be aware of the size of the binary dump file that
will be written to the hard disk of the connected host PC.
Simple Trace: Collects as a .dat file. It can take almost 7-9 minutes to collect the
trace. The Simple Trace can also be collected from Storage Navigator
Modular 2.
CTL Alarm Trace The CTL Alarm Trace is collected in the normal mode or the
maintenance mode of the Web Tool. For connecting to the WEB, a
maintenance PC terminal with Browser installed is necessary.
3. Click OK.
When the information has been collected (takes several minutes), the following
prompt (on the next page) appears:
5. Click Save.
Note: You can save the file to any folder you choose.
6. Click Save to save it to the Local Disk.
7. Close the Simple Trace Download window.
8. Open the file (smpl_trc_<SNo>_<Firmware>.dat) using the Notepad editor. Exit
the editor after you view the file.
Note: Since your subsystem has not experienced a controller blockage, trace
information has not been collected and you cannot select one of the
controllers and perform the dump. If blockage trace information was
available, the CTL Alarm Trace window would display additional
information and you could select a controller and continue the process.
2. If you previously turned off the pop-up blocker, turn it back on.
3. Close your browser.
This ends the guided portion of the lab project.
If you want to go back and practice what you have learned, feel free to do so, but
keep in mind that you need to complete the review questions and have them
ready for review when the class reconvenes in the classroom.
Make sure you leave the system in the same state that it was in at the end of the
guided portion of the lab project — this insures that the system will be in a state
that supports the following lab projects.
Note: As software products are enabled, the left side menu of the Web browser
screen will list the individual products. At the moment, your screen
should not have any enabled products listed. You should plan to return to
the Web browser to verify that the products are listed as you enable them
during the following lab projects.
Full Dump
Save the files collected from different controllers into different directories, or name
them differently so you can see which controllers they were collected from.
Press the Reset button on both controller and take the contollers to Maintenance
Mode (please note that in Maintenance Mode all host I/O is stopped. Do not do this
on a production HUS that is working fine.)
When the downloading completes, the message window that indicates progress is
closed.
System Parameters
The following is a quick tour of displaying system parameters, but this is just a tour,
so do not make any changes.
1. In the left panel, click the Subsystem link.
2. Click Change.
3. At this time do not make any changes but view what can be done. An
explanation of each of these parameters can be found in the Maintenance
Manual.
IF you were making changes, you would click Set to commit any changes, and
then respond to the resulting prompts. A system restart would be performed.
Next, you are guided through some of the other functions. Examine the resulting
screens, but only make and save changes if you are instructed.
Host Interface
1. In the left panel, click the Host Interface link.
Network
1. In the left panel, click the Network (IPv4) link.
Name
1. In the left panel, click the Name link.
Initialize
The Initialize function sets the system parameter information of the device to a
known initial state. This would typically be carried out during an initial build of a
system prior to the first microcode install.
Note: This error occurs when the correct Java Policy is not in effect.
The following steps will have you correct the problem and the process
assumes that JRE 1.6.0 or 1.6.0_07 is installed.
2. Close and open Internet Explorer and give the IP address of the controller.
Enter maintenance as both id and password.
6. Select the folder (2012…..) in the screen shot above, and then click Open.
7. Click the Install button and wait for the following prompt to appear (may take a
couple of minutes).
8. Click OK.
10. Wait for the following screen to appear (takes about 8 minutes).
15. Click OK and wait for about 60 seconds. Then click the browser refresh button.
17. Wait a few more minutes and refresh your screen again. The system should again
be in the Ready state.
18. Close the browser.
What tool do you use to perform the disruptive microcode replacement procedure?
________________
What are the strings used to put the web browser into Maintenance mode?
User Name: ________________
Password: ________________
The Initial Setup function allows you to load a lower or higher version of microcode
while preserving the current configuration.
True
False
What folder contains the microcode? ________________
What does the I/F icon identify? Identifies the front end interface boards.
Did the Drive Failure LED turn red? Yes – and it remains on until the drive spins up.
After the drive spun up what did the Drive Access LED do?
The Access LED flashed on and off very quickly indicating the microcode from
drive #1 was restored to what the system thinks was a new disk (drive #3).
Why was copy-back of this drive not performed like it was for the third drive?
The drive was not one of the microcode disks and was not part of a RAID Group.
What would you do with the trace file? E-mail it to HDS TRC.
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What tool do you use to perform the disruptive microcode replacement
procedure? WEBTOOL
What are the strings used to put the web browser into Maintenance mode?
User Name: maintenance
Password: hosyu9500
The Initial Setup function allows you to load a lower or higher version of microcode
while preserving the current configuration.
True
False
What folder contains the microcode? \diskarray-microprogram\microprogram
Web Access
1. What happens if one of the first five disk drives is replaced and no RAID group
exists on these drives?
3. If a drive other than one of the first five drives is removed from the system and it
was not part of a RAID group, does the system enter the Warning state?
4. How many types of trace information can be collected on the DF850 Hitachi Unified
Storage when in Normal mode?
6. What type of file is created and saved on the hard disk of the connected PC?
Lab 3 – End
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to:
Install the correct Java JRE on a management server
Configure the Java Runtime Parameter so Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2
(HSNM 2) clients can utilize the Advanced Settings function of HSNM 2
Install HSNM 2, creating the management server on a management server
Initialize and set up the storage system for first time use
Register your assigned storage system with HSNM 2
Install Program Products license keys
Create new user accounts and assign role permissions
2. Install JRE.
3. Click Accept.
4. Click Finish and then close the C:\Documents and Settings window.
Important Note:
If the customer is already running the Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) and Device
Manager, you must execute the following command to stop the HCS services in
order to install HSNM 2.
1. HSNM 2 and HCS are compatible — they share the same data base, but a
second instance will be created for HSNM 2.
Restart the services after the HSNM 2 installation.
hcmdssrv.exe /stop
The above mentioned command is located at:
C:\program files\hicommand\base\bin
Since the image loaded on the management server assigned to you is not running
HCS, you should not have to execute the above identified command.
1. Check with your instructor for the location of the Storage Navigator Modular 2
software.
2. Run the setup.
3. Select Next.
4. Select Next.
5. Enter the IP address of the server where HSNM 2 is being installed. Leave port
number as 1099.
2. When the application loads, enter the system and manager strings.
In a few moments, HSMN 2 will automatically launch the Add Array wizard.
3. Click Next.
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
The wizard prompts you to enter the IP addresses of the LAN ports on the HUS
controllers.
Note: If the user wanted to utilize the SSL protocol for secure LAN connections
and used SSL certificates, then Secure Port would be selected. In class,
you will use Non-secure Port connections.
4. Enter the IP addresses for your assigned storage system and then click Next.
5. Click Finish and wait a few moments until the registered array is displayed on the
Arrays screen.
6. Move the slide bar to expose the IP addresses and verify that your system is the
system that was registered.
7. Verify that the Status of your system is Normal and consult your instructor if status
other than normal is being indicated.
8. Click on your Array Name entry to start your initial configuration.
9. See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
Initial Setup
1. From the Common Array Tasks panel, click Initial Setup. The wizard prompts you to
set up an e-mail alert, set management ports, and set up the iSCSI ports.
2. When connecting with IPv4, check the Scope Search radio button, check the Scope
of IPv4 Address, and enter the scope of the IP address to search. Then, uncheck the
Scope of IPv6 Address checkbox.
From: Input a start IP address of the search range
To: Input a end IP address (only host address) of the search range
Click Next.
3. The result of searching is displayed in Search Results.
This is a quick method to locate the arrays and add them to HSNM 2.
2. Select Next.
5. Based on the number of ports in the array, you will see a list. First column is for C0
ports and second column is for C1 ports.
• Transfer Rate can 1, 2, 4, 8 Gbps or Auto.
• Topology can be Loop (direct connect) or Point to Point (Switch)
7. Set the date. If you select Set Automatically, then you need to specify the NTP server.
This can be done when you return to main screen and select Settings > Date and
Time.
8. Select Next.
9. You will be shown all your settings one by one. You can confirm at the end, or go
back and make changes.
When installing Program Product (PP) keys, the key of an individual PP can be
copied to the HSNM 2 license window or you can point to the .plk file and load
all the keys at once. The key is the 48 character string identified in the above
example.
Important Note:
If you obtained the key file from a network share server, then edit the file and
make sure it contains only the keys listed in the screen shot above. This is done
so this lab project and following lab projects will run as documented. The
course lab projects assume only the above listed keys are installed. Some of
these may not be installed at the same time as one another. You see the effect of
attempting to install keys that may not be installed concurrently in later lab steps.
4. Close the Notepad editor for any open key file.
5. Click the Array Name of your system to again connect to your assigned array.
6. From the Common Array Tasks panel click Install License.
7. After the license key install is completed, the confirmation window is displayed.
Click OK to continue.
8. The Account Authentication key is not included in BOS. If you enter the license
key for Account Authentication, then after the key is entered you will be logged
out of the array.
9. On logging in again it will ask you for an id and password. The ID is root and
password is storage.
10. If you have disabled the Account Authentication and re-enable it, it will take you
to the Add user Registration screen.
12. You can change the password. (The default password is storage.)
13. You can add a user, and give the appropriate role.
15.When you log in, you may see a screen like this if you do not have permissions.
19. Click the Look at All Arrays link to log out and return to array list.
HSNM 2 Configuration
4. When launching HSNM 2, what port number is used in the URL, and can the
user change this port number?
6. What is the string that you need to set for the Java Runtime Parameter?
7. What are the strings of the built-in user account that is activated when you install
the Account Authentication program product?
User ID =
Password =
Lab 4 – End
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to:
Create several RAID groups specifying different RAID levels and disk
combinations using both Automatic and Manual selection of the disk drives
Expand a RAID group
Delete a RAID group
Manually create several Logical Units of different sizes
Change the size of a LUN
Delete a Logical Unit
Set Spare Drive Operation Mode to Fixed (enables the spare copy-back function)
Note: Depending on the model of your assigned education HUS, the type of
disk drives in the first tray (the control module) may be different.
4. Click OK to accept the default settings. The drives will be selected automatically.
By default, if no RAID groups exist on the system, the following RAID group is
created:
RAID group number = 000
RAID level = RAID5
Parity group combination = 3D+1P
Number of parity groups = 1 (always leave this parameter equal to 1)
Drive type = SAS
Drive capacity = 2TB (your system may not have this type of drive)
6. Click the icon of RAID group 000 and then click the Assigned Drives tab in the
resulting window.
7. Create the following RAID group using Automatic Selection with SATA drives:
RAID group number = 001
RAID level = RAID 1
Parity group combination = 1D+1D
8. Create the following RAID group using Manual Selection:
RAID group number = 002
RAID level = RAID6
Parity group combination = 2D+2P
After the above command, your RAID group configuration should look
something like the screen shot on the next page. Remember, your drive
configuration may be different, but you should have the three RAID groups.
9. Select the check box to the left of RG 001 and then click Delete RG.
10. Then click Confirm to confirm the deletion.
3. Select the first available drive that matches the rest of RG000 and click OK.
4. Read and accept the warning to begin the Online RAID Group Expansion.
6. The RAID group will enter the “Waiting” state before starting to expand. The
following two screenshots show how it looks in HSNM 2.
3. Select the following parameters and then click the Advanced tab.
RAID group number = 000
LUN = 0000
Capacity = 1GB
Note: The Advanced setting allows the user to specify the Stripe Size, if the
new LUN is to be formatted, or create the LUN automatically or
manually from free space. If the Format the Logical Unit box is
un-checked, then the LUN could be formatted manually later.
If the OK button had been clicked (previous screen), then the default settings of
the Stripe Size (256KB), Format (Yes), and Set Automatically would be selected.
Later in the course, the stripe size setting is discussed when the Cache Partition
Manager is covered.
4. Click OK to accept the default settings from this screen and the settings that you
made via the previous screen.
This window allows you to map the new LU to a Port and Host Group.
Depending on the model type of your assigned HUS system, the number of Fibre
Channel ports may be different.
5. Click Close.
At this time mapping will not be performed. Host groups and LUN mapping are
covered later in the course.
Also, at this time, ignore the Cache Partition information. The cache partition to
which a new LUN is assigned will be discussed later in the course when the
Cache Partition Manager is discussed.
6. Click the Create LU button again and create five additional LUs per the following
parameters. Remember to click Close at the window concerning Host Group
Mapping:
Your LU configuration should look something like the screen capture on the
following page.
7. Click the icon for LUN 0000 to see its properties (you should see something
similar to the screen capture below).
8. Click Close.
Change LU Capacity
1. From the Logical Units panel, click the Logical Units tab.
2. Select the check box next to LUN 000 and click Change LU Capacity. Note the
current LUN size of 1GB.
3. On the following screen, input a new capacity for the LUN. This capacity may be
larger or smaller, or you may choose to add other existing LUNs to this LUN.
For this exercise, type “2” into the box labeled New capacity.
The LUN size will be expanded to 2GB. The method used in this guide to grow the
LUN is not destructive to your data. However, if you had chosen to expand the LUN
by adding other existing LUNs, then you would be required to back up the data on
the LUN before expanding.
Delete an LU
1. What two methods are available for the creation of RAID groups?
2. When using the Manual Selection method of creating a RAID group, drives of
different speeds can be combined into the same RAID group.
A. True
B. False
3. What is the maximum number of parity groups HDS recommends per RAID
group?
4. LUNs can be created in what four units of sizes. (e.g., MB, ….)
5. When you create a LUN manually, you have the option to map it to a host group.
A. True
B. False
6. After a failed drive has been replaced, you do not want to copy back the data
from the spare to the replaced drive. How should the parameter Spare Drive
Operation Mode be set?
A. Variable
B. Fixed
Lab 5 – End
Objectives
Upon completion of the lab project, you should be able to:
Allocate storage to host systems using the Create Logical Unit and Mapping
wizard
Copy a host group from one port to another
1. From the Host Groups panel, click the Host Group Security tab. Select the check
box next to each port to which you plan to map LUNs. For this exercise just click
the boxes next to all of the ports.
2. Then click Change Host Group Security.
1. From the Common Array Tasks for your assigned array, click the Create Logical
Units and Mapping wizard.
2. Go through the first four steps in the Create & Map Volume wizard starting with
the Introduction.
5. Create new host groups or map the LUNs to existing host groups.
6. The next step is to select the correct WWPN for the server to which you wish to
connect. If the WWPN of the server you expected to see is not present in the list,
then you may have a zoning problem preventing the initiator from logging in to
the target port on the array. Check with your instructor if this is the case.
8. Now that you have mapped a LUN to a host group on one port, you need to
copy that host group configuration to a port on the other controller for
redundancy. Click the check box next to the host group that was created by the
wizard and click Edit Host Group near the bottom of the screen.
9. Select the 1C port in the scroll box labeled Edit to: Available Ports and click OK.
10. Click Confirm and then view you list of host groups again. You will notice a
second host group now exists on the 1A port with an identical configuration.
Verify that your WWPN entries are correct for each port.
You can now login to the host and check. In the example the volumes are mapped to a
Windows host.
Save changes.
2. Note the WWN 50-06……. This is the WWN of the 1C port of HUS 110.
3. Note the WWN 10-00…….This is the WWN of the local HBA.
Storage Allocation
1. Describe, in as few words as possible, how we can duplicate the host group
configuration in a redundant multi-path environment.
2. What is the name of the wizard that allows the creation and presentation of
LUNs?
3. The above mentioned wizard allows the selection of existing, or the creation of
new, RAID groups, LUNs and host groups.
A. True
B. False
Lab 6 – End
Note: This is the configuration that you should have created in earlier lab
projects. Array internal LUNs 0002 and 0006, created from RAID group 2
and mapped to the two Windows host groups that you created on ports
0C and 1C. Each of the volume is 10GB.
Because the two LUNs are mapped to both host groups that your server has access to,
the server thinks it has access to four LUNs — two LUNs on both paths.
5. Leave Enter the name of the license key file selected and click Next.
6. In the resulting prompt, click the Browse button and browse to the following folder:
C:\SOFTWARE\HDLM\HDLM_Key
7. Select the file HDS HDLM 20051017 205738.plk and click Open.
8. Click Next and then OK at the The permanent license was installed prompt.
9. Click Next.
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
10. Leave the Hitachi subsystem selected and click Next (the installation should start).
11. When the Install Complete prompt appears, close any open windows and then
select the Yes, I want to restart my computer now radio button and click Finish
and wait for the reboot to complete.
Note: You may want to execute a ping –t to your server to verify when it comes
back up. Also, once it starts responding to the ping, wait a couple of more
minutes before attempting to connect to your server.
12. Connect to your server, start HSNM 2 and connect to your array.
13. Go to RAID Groups > Logical Units and delete LUNs 0000 and 0001.
14. Create a new LUN 0000 and 0001 from RAID group 002, specifying a size of
20GB and assign them to partitions 00 and 01 respectively. Click Close at the
window that prompts you to map the new LUNs.
The larger size LUNs will allow you to issue I/O to the LUNs using IOmeter and
not overflow the LUNs.
15. Keep refreshing your array to verify when the format of the new LUNs completes
(takes a few minutes).
16. Once the format completes, re-map LUNs 0000 and 0001 to both Windows host
groups as Host LUNs 0000 and 0001 (as before).
17. Wait a couple of minutes, then launch the Windows Disk Management utility
and verify that the OS has again discovered the LUNs (you may have to execute
the Rescan Disks function).
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
Notice that the OS, because of HDLM, now is displaying only the primary path
(two disks listed instead of four).
18. Initialize the two disks and create a partition in each one (one at a time), but do
not choose Quick Format as one of your choices — let the OS fully format the
disks. The format of each disk takes about 30 seconds; be patient and create the
partition in each disk one at a time (wait for disk 1 to complete formatting before
you work on disk 2).
Start HDLM
Note: When Dynamic Link Manager is launched, the Path List screen is displayed and
if the Configuration screen tab is clicked, a message appears stating the
Configuration View function is not supported. This is okay, because the Path List
screen gives everything needed to complete the lab project.
19. From the Start popup menu, select the following to launch the software:
Start > Programs > Dynamic Link Manager > HDLM GUI
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
20. In the Host tree panel, expand the icon for your listed storage array and then pull
the slide bar to the right to expose the Owner and I/O count columns.
If you are familiar with using Dynamic Link Manager on the earlier Adaptable
Modular Storage systems, then you will notice that both paths are listed as Owner
paths instead of one path listed as the Owner and the other path as Non-owner.
The earlier HDS modular system operated in an Active-Passive mode on the front-
end host connections. The HUS family utilizes the Active-Active host connections.
21. Click the Options button to view which parameters are currently set.
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
2. In the Topology panel, expand the icon for your Windows host system (WLABD in
the captured screen shot) and click the Worker 1 icon
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
The letter of the New Volumes listed (E:New Volume and F:New Volume) should
match the disk letter that was shown by the Disk Management utility (see page
10-2).
The drive letters that you are seeing may be different from the letters illustrated in
the lab project because of a different number of disks discovered by the Windows
Disk Management utility.
3. Holding the shift key depressed, check the box to the left of the two target disks
(remember, your disk letters may be different). Also, if your target disks have a
small red line over the icon, ignore the red line and select the disk.
4. Enter 10 in the # of Outstanding I/Os box (sets Command Tag Queuing to 10).
5. Click the Access Specifications tab.
6. From the Global Access Specifications panel, select the default entry and then
click the Edit button.
See the next page for the resulting screen shot.
This setting will cause 64KB records to be written sequentially at a 75% Write, 25%
Read duty cycle.
8. Click the Add button.
9. Click Worker 2 and then click the Disk Targets tab.
10. Check the two New Volume boxes (remember to hold the shift key).
11. Enter 10 in the # of Outstanding I/Os box (sets Command Tag Queuing to 10).
12. Click the Access Specifications tab.
13. Select the specification that you created earlier and then the Add button.
14. Repeat Steps 9 – 13 for Worker 3 and Worker 4.
15. In the upper row of the IOmeter window, click the icon of the green flag to start
IOmeter.
The results of the operation will be saved in the results file (you could choose the
folder, by default it goes into My Documents).
Note: While running IOmeter, you may see a small message at the bottom of
your Windows screen indicating Low Disk Space. Just ignore the message.
16. Click the Save button to start the I/O process.
17. Bring the Dynamic Link Manager GUI to the front and click the Refresh button,
and continue to click Refresh to see the I/O flowing to both LUNs and on both
paths.
Also, it will take a few minutes to fill up the cache before you begin to see I/O
going down both paths.
See the next page for a sample of what you should see.
3. Click the Change Measurement Items button and enable if the items are not already
enabled.
By default, performance data will be collected from all seven functional areas.
4. Click Show Graph. Select a RAID group, and select IOPS. Click Show Graph.
Performance Monitor
1. Given two HUS LUNs, each mapped to two host groups that a host was given access to,
how many LUNs would the host discover if no multi-path management software (like
HDLM) were installed?
2. Assuming the configuration outlined in question 1, how many LUNs would the host
detect after the installation of Dynamic Link Manager?
3. Again, referring to the configuration of question 1, Dynamic Link Manager will display
all the configured (managed) paths.
A. True
B. False
4. By default, Dynamic Link Manager will attempt to load balance.
A. True
B. False
5. By default, Dynamic Link Manager is set for manual failback.
A. True
B. False
6. When using the Performance Monitor to collect performance metrics, front end
performance is affected.
A. True
B. False
7. How many individual performance metrics can be displayed in the Performance Graph
at any point in time?
8. The Performance Graph has to be stopped and then again started each time you select
another metric to display.
A. True
B. False
Lab 7 End