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CentricStor V3.1D
User Guide
Edition July 2007
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Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 1.1 Objective and target group for the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.2 Concept of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.3 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 2.6 Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 2.6.1 Creating the CentricStor data maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.6.2 Issuing a mount job from the host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.6.3 Scratch mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 4.1.3 System administrator activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.1.3.1 Adding a logical volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.1.3.2 Adding a physical volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.1.3.3 Adding logical volumes to a logical volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.1.
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Contents 5.2.3 GXCC in other systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.4 Screen display requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.5 Managing CentricStor via SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.5.1 Connection to SNMP management systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2
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Contents 6.1.6 Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 6.1.6.1 Status information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 6.1.6.2 Object information and object-related functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 6.1.7 ICP object information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 6.2.7 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 6.2.7.1 RAID Filesystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 6.2.7.2 Logical Volume Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 6.2.7.3 Physical Volume Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 7.3.1.2 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 7.3.2 Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 7.3.3 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 7.3.3.1 Global eXtended Control Center . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 7.7.1.5 Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 7.7.1.6 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 7.7.1.7 Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 7.7.1.8 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 8.3.4.4 Scan Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 8.3.4.5 Interaction Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 8.3.5 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 8.3.5.1 XTCC Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 8.5.8.3 Abort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 8.5.8.4 Enlarge Font / Reduce Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 8.5.8.5 Tab Stop Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 8.5.9 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 8.10 Virtual 3490 drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 8.10.1 Object information and error messages for virtual 3490 drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 8.10.1.1 Error conditions indicated on the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 8.10.1.2 Object information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 8.10.
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Contents 8.17 RAID systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 8.17.1 Object information on RAID systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 8.17.2 Functions of RAID systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 8.17.2.1 Show Complete RAID Status (all types) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 8.23.3 Global functions for tape drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432 8.23.3.1 Remove Symbols of all Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 8.24 MSGMGR (Message Manager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 8.24.1 Object information on the Message Manager (MSGMGR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 8.24.2 MSGMGR functio
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Contents 9.2.12 SXMM... (Message Manager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 9.2.13 SXPL... (PLM: Physical Library Manager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 9.2.14 SXPS... (PLS: Physical Library Server) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 9.2.15 SXRD... (FibreCAT: RAID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
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Contents 12.1.2.2 Activating the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 12.1.2.3 Changes in central files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 12.1.3 Monitoring CentricStor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 12.1.3.1 GXCC as a monitoring tool without SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 12.4 Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1 Xpdf, gzip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1.1 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1.2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1Introduction With CentricStor, a virtual tape robot system is placed in front of the real tape robot system (with the real drives and cartridges). In this way the host and the real archive are fully decoupled. The virtual tape robot system knows what are referred to as virtual (logical) drives and virtual (logical) volumes. The core element here consists principally of a disk system as data cache, guaranteeing not only extremely high-speed access to the data, but also, thanks to the large
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Objective and target group for the manual Introduction The host is connected using the following connection technologies: ● ESCON channels ● FibreChannel ● FICON Communication between the individual control units takes place via the LAN in CentricStor, the transport of the user data to and from the RAID system via the FibreChannel. The physical drives can be connected to the backend via both FibreChannel and SCSI technology. 1.1 Objective and target group for the manual This manual provides
