Requirements; System Requirements; Source And Target Volume General Requirements; Supported And Prohibited Source And Target Volumes - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays User Manual

2 Requirements

This chapter provides information about Auto LUN requirements.

System requirements

To use Auto LUN, you need:
A P9500 storage system
A Remote Web Console client machine
Both Performance Monitor and Auto LUN

Source and target volume general requirements

The source and target volume should satisfy the following conditions:
Managed by the same P9500 storage system
Have the same emulation type and capacity. If the emulation type is not OPEN-V, both the
source and target volumes must be custom-sized (CV) volumes or normal volumes.
The LDEV IDs (LDKC:CU:LDEV) must have values between 00:00:00 and 00:FE:FF
Must be specified by LDEV ID, not VOLSER or port/TID/LUN

Supported and prohibited source and target volumes

The following list includes volumes and volume types that cannot be used as source or target
volumes for Auto LUN:
System disks
Quorum disks
Volumes being used by the host as command devices
IBM 3390 Concurrent Copy volumes
Volumes reserved by a migration program other than Auto LUN
Volumes undergoing a Quick Format operation
Volumes in an abnormal or inaccessible condition (such as, pinned, tracked, or fenced)
The following table lists the volumes and volume types that can and cannot be considered as
candidates for source and/or target volumes for an Auto LUN operation. The table is categorized
by program product.
Table 1 Candidates for Source and Target Volumes by Program Product
Program Product
Thin Provisioning
10 Requirements
Volume Type/Status
V-VOL
Pool volume
Source Volume Candidate?
Yes
NOTE: The maximum
capacity is 4 TB.
No
Target Volume Candidate?
Yes, but the target volume
may not be associated with
the same Thin Provisioning
pool as the source volume
NOTE: The maximum
capacity is 4 TB.
No