Knowledge Required Before You Install Hdlm - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

3. Creating an HDLM Environment

3.4 Knowledge Required Before You Install HDLM

You can install HDLM on the following disks or devices:
• An internal disk on a host machine
• LUs of storage systems that are used as a boot disk
For details about the storage systems on which HDLM can be installed, see
(4) Boot Disk Environments and BladeSymphony Environments Supported
by HDLM in 3.1.3 Related Products When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AS4/ES4, (4) Boot Disk Environments and BladeSymphony Environments
Supported by HDLM (If an FC-SAN Is Used) in 3.1.4 Related Products
When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, (4) Boot Disk Environments
Supported by HDLM (If an FC-SAN Is Used) in 3.1.5 Related Products
When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, (4) Boot Disk Environments and
BladeSymphony Environments Supported by HDLM in 3.1.7 Related
Products When Using SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, (3) Boot Disk
Environments Supported by HDLM in 3.1.8 Related Products When Using
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11, (3) Boot Disk Environments Supported
by HDLM in 3.1.9 Related Products When Using Oracle Enterprise Linux
4., or (4) Boot Disk Environments Supported by HDLM in 3.1.10 Related
Products When Using Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.
HDLM outputs the log information for analyzing errors at the time of installation
to a file. The file name, which is the output destination, is
hdlminstlog/installhdlm[01-10].log
files that can be created is 10. If 10 files already exist and you perform another
installation, the oldest file is deleted and a new log file is output.
The following information is inherited from the previous environment even when
HDLM is installed during an upgrade installation or re-installation:
• Information for defining the configuration of an HDLM device
• Information for setting up HDLM functions
• Log information
• Driver configuration
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/var/tmp/
, and the maximum number of