Overwriting Control Blocks In Specific External Volumes; Assigning An Mp Blade; Assigning An Mp Blade To A Resource - HP XP7 User Manual

Overwriting control blocks in specific external volumes

Prerequisites
The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
Procedure
1. Perform zero-formatting on the mainframe system you want to register (see steps 1 and 2 in
"Registering external volumes" (page
2. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.
3. Click External Storage.
4. On the External Storage Systems tab, click Add External Volumes.
5. Click the value of Vendor / Model / Serial Number of the external storage.
The External Path Groups tab appears.
6. Click the value of External Path Group ID.
The Mapped Volumes tab appears.
7. Select the row of the parity group that contains the external volume to be blocked, click More
Actions and select Disconnect External Volumes.
For more details about using the Disconnect External Volumes button, see the HP XP7 External
Storage for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide.
8. In the Storage Systems tree, click Parity Groups and External. Then select the parity group
that contains the blocked external volume.
The LDEV tab appears. Confirm that Blocked displays in the Status column.
9. Select the target volumes from among the volumes with a status of Blocked. Then click Format
LDEVs.
10. From the Format Type list, select Write to Control blocks, and then click Finish.
1 1. In the Confirm window, click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.
12. When the processing is complete, click OK.
13. Select the external volumes. Then click More Actions and Reconnect External Volumes to restore
them.
The Status column of the target volumes shows Normal.

Assigning an MP blade

Assigning an MP blade to a resource

Use this procedure to assign an MP blade to a resource (logical device, external volume, and
journal volume).
Prerequisites
The Storage Administrator (System Resource Management) role is required to perform this task.
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