About Provisioning Operations - Hitachi VSP F1500 User And Reference Manual

About provisioning operations

You can use CCI to perform provisioning operations on the following storage
systems:
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600, G800
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600, F800
• xHitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, G1500, and Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform F1500
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
• Hitachi Unified Storage VM
For details about the provisioning operations, see the Provisioning Guide for
the storage system.
Note: Be aware of the following when performing provisioning operations
using CCI:
• When you execute provisioning operations using CCI, the operation of
refreshing the window (Device Manager - Storage Navigator, SVP, GUM)
might be delayed.
• During maintenance work on the storage system (Device Manager -
Storage Navigator, maintenance utility, or Maintenance PC in modify
mode), or when the configuration is being changed from the GUI, the CCI
provisioning command might be rejected (2E10, 8000).
• When you execute commands for provisioning operations, host I/O
performance might deteriorate because of increased working ratio of
processor by updating processing of the configuration information of
storage system. If you plan to execute many commands, take account of
the impact on the I/O performance.
Overview of the configuration setting command
CCI functions enable provisioning operations such as host setting, LDEV
creation, and device group creation. These operations are performed using
the raidcom configuration setting command.
The configuration setting command is specified using the following syntax:
raidcom <action> <resource> <parameter>
The operation itself, such as add or delete, is specified in the action, and the
resource object, such as LDEV or path, is specified in the resource. The
necessary value to operate the resource object is specified in the parameter.
For the details about the raidcom configuration setting command, see the
Command Control Interface Command Reference.
Because some provisioning operations can take time to process, CCI provides
two ways to execute the configuration setting command: synchronously or
asynchronously.
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Provisioning operations with CCI
Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide