Configuring External Lus; Overview Of Configuring External Lus - HP StorageWorks XP12000 User Manual

5 Configuring external LUs

Use External Storage XP to perform operations to access external LUs, such as setting the port attribute
to the external port and mapping the external LU as the internal LDEV.
This chapter describes procedures for using External Storage XP to configure external LUs.

Overview of configuring external LUs

Figure 41 shows an example of using External Storage XP to configure external LUs.
Figure 41 Overview of configuring external LUs
The following is the general procedure for configuring external LUs.
1. Configure the port and system parameters for the external array. For instructions, see the external
LU's documentation,
2. Start External Storage XP operations. For instructions, see the HP StorageWorks Command View
XP user guide for XP Disk Arrays or the HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console user guide
for XP12000/XP10000/SVS200.
3. Set the external array port attribute to External. For instructions, see
attributes.
Setting an external array's
External Storage XP user guide for the XP12000, XP10000, SVS200
port, and Notes on connecting external
Setting a local array's port
arrays.
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