Creating Thin Provisioned Volumes; Exporting Luns To The Host - HP P10000 Implementation Manual

NOTE:
is required.
Consult the InForm Management Console help and the HP 3PAR Command Line Reference
for complete details on creating volumes for the InForm OS version that is being used on the
HP 3PAR Storage System. Note that the commands and options available for creating a virtual
volume may vary for earlier versions of the InForm OS.

Creating Thin Provisioned Volumes

To create Thin Provisioned volumes, see the following documents:
HP 3PAR InForm OS Concepts Guide
HP 3PAR InForm OS CLI Administrator's Manual
InForm OS Command Line Interface Reference

Exporting LUNs to the Host

This section explains how to export LUNs to the host server as VVs, referred to as Virtual LUNs
(VLUNs).
To export VVs as Virtual LUNs, issue the following command:
createvlun -cnt <number> <VV_name> <LUN>
where:
-cnt <number> specifies that a sequence of VLUNs, as specified by the number argument,
are exported to the same system port and host that is created. The number argument can be
specified as any integer. For each VLUN created, the .int suffix of the VV_name specifier
and LUN are incremented by one.
<VV_name> specifies name of the virtual volume being exported as a virtual LUN.
<LUN> indicates that this is the starting LUN number.
<hostname/hostdefinition> indicates that hostname is the name of the host created in
sections 2.1.1, 2.1.2, or 2.1.3.
Example:
# createvlun -cnt 5 TestLUNs.0 1 hpux-host
To verify that VLUNs have been created, issue showvlun:
# showvlun
Active VLUNs
Lun VVName HostName
...
VLUN Templates
Lun VVName
1 TestLUNs.0 hpux-host ----------------
2 TestLUNs.1 hpux-host ----------------
3 TestLUNs.2 hpux-host ----------------
4 TestLUNs.3 hpux-host ----------------
5 TestLUNs.4 hpux-host ----------------
...
18 Allocating Storage for Access by the HP-UX Host
To create thinly provisioned virtual volumes, an HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning license
-Host_WWN/iSCSI_Name-
HostName -Host_WWN/iSCSI_Name- Port Type
<host_name>
Port Type
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