Smart Setup Wizard - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S5 Series Configuration Manual

5. General Settings
Initial Setup

Smart Setup Wizard

This section explains the Smart Setup Wizard.
With the Smart Setup Wizard, configure the settings that are required for access from the host (server) to Thin
Provisioning Volumes.
To assign volumes other than Thin Provisioning Volumes to a host, refer to
"Host Affinity Creation" (page
Caution
• The Smart Setup Wizard cannot be started for the following conditions.
- The Thin Provisioning function is disabled.
- An FC/iSCSI/SAS CA is not activated.
- A Thin Provisioning Pool has not been created and the drive used to create the Thin Provisioning Pool
has not been installed.
• If the host connection is iSCSI, log in to the iSCSI port of the ETERNUS DX from the host before using the
Smart Setup Wizard.
If the login operation for the iSCSI port is not performed from the host, the hosts that are connected via
iSCSI are not displayed.
For details, refer to "Configuration Guide -Server Connection- for iSCSI" for each OS.
• When using the ETERNUS DX900 S5, create a TPP in advance.
Note
• If a Thin Provisioning Pool has not been created, the ETERNUS DX automatically determines the Thin
Provisioning Pool configuration.
- The priority for selecting drive types is as follows.
SSD > SSD SED > Online > Online SED > Nearline > Nearline SED
If multiple drive types exist, the drive type with the highest priority is selected to create a Thin
Provisioning Pool.
To create another Thin Provisioning Pool with the unselected drive types, this wizard cannot be used.
Use the dedicated function provided by this ETERNUS DX to create a Thin Provisioning Pool.
- The RAID levels and the number of drives for RAID groups that configure the Thin Provisioning Pool are
as follows.
Drive type
SSD / SSD SED
Other drive types
- A Global Hot Spare is registered for each Thin Provisioning Pool.
- The same Deduplication/Compression setting as the Deduplication/Compression mode of the ETERNUS
DX is applied to the Thin Provisioning Pool.
• When this wizard is used, host affinity is automatically set by using the following hosts, ports, and LUN
groups.
- All hosts selected in the [Select Host] screen
- All the CA ports registered in the ETERNUS DX whose port mode is "CA" or "CA/RA" (if multiple types of
CAs are installed in the ETERNUS DX, the selected type of CA is used)
- The LUN groups to which all the volumes selected in the [Select Volume] screen belongs
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"Set Host Response" (page 147)
RAID level Number of drives
RAID5 Five or more
RAID6 Seven or more
and
Configuration Guide (Basic)