Improve Storage Admin With Hitachi Device Manager

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Hitachi Storage Command Suite

Improve Storage Administration with Hitachi Device Manager version 6.1

February 18, 2009

John Harker

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Himanshu Parida

Technical Product Manager

Norma Rangel

Product Manager

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Hitachi Data Systems WebTech Educational Seminar Series


Technical Session: Hitachi Device Manager software is now standard with the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™. The new release of Device Manager features improvements in storage administration including Host Scan. With Host Scan, Device Manager now makes it easier to map SAN viewed worldwide names to host names through the ability to name the hosts attached to a given subsystem with names obtained from its HSD or iSCSI target. Join us for a quick overview of what’s new in Device Manager.

In this webcast detailing Device Manager 6.1, you’ll understand:– How to configure host groups using the new host scan feature

– All about the new host mode options and device support in Device Manager

– How to take advantage of the other new Device Manager features such as,

updated SMI-S support, installation improvements and more

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Agenda


• Simplified Host Management

• SMI-S enhancements

• Device Manager External Device Discovery

• Tiered Storage Manager Volume Creation

• Device Manager SMI-S 1.3 support

• Other enhancements

• Hardware and Supported environment support update

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Device Manager Host View

• Add Hosts

– With agent automatically maps in Hosts w/proper names

– Without Host agent you use Lunscan which gives you numbered host names

– New Host Scan feature gives you real host names

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Simplified Host Management

• Device Manager version 6.1 introduces Host Scan feature to reduce time consuming host registration tasks in the agentless environment.

• Host scan discovers worldwide names which are not assigned to any host in Device Manager from subsystems, then generates a host based on the Host Storage Domain (HSD) or iSCSI target

– The HSD or iSCSI nickname will be used as the host name.

Host Scan

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Simplified Host Management - GUI

• Host view provides “Execute Host Scan” button to generate hosts.

More than one subsystem can be selected.

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Simplified Host Management – CLI

• “HostScan” command is supported to generate hosts automatically.

The serial number of the subsystem. Comma can be used to delimit values.

The subsystem model. Comma can be used to delimit values.

Description

serialnum

model

Parameter

1. Parameters required to scan particular subsystems,

The option to scan all subsystem. “all” should be specified.

Description

option

Parameter

2. Parameter required to scan all subsystems,

Note: since both model and serialnum values are used to identify a subsystem, the order of these values are important when more than 1 subsystem is scanned.

>HiCommandCLI HostScan model=USP_V,USP serialnum=10007,10505

Example: Run HostScan command to the USP V with serialnum 10007 and the USP with serialnum 10505.

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Device Manager SMI-S Enhancements

• SMI-S Provider Configured by Default

• SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Support

– Discovery

– Reporting

– Storage management tool launch

– Refresh and removal

• SMI-S 1.3 Support

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SMI-S EnhancementsProvider Configured by Default

• SMI-S provider service is automatically enabled and the setting panels are removed in order to simplify the installation process in V6.1 or later.

• Device Manager configures the service as following,– SMI-S provider service: Enable

– SLP service: Enable

– SMI-S SSL Port: 5989

– Two-way Authentication for object operations: Disable

– Two-way Authentication for event indication: Disable

– SMI-S agent host name: will not be specified

• The configuration can be changed by modifying properties in the server. properties file.

– The properties file location

• In Windows, <installation-folder-for-the-Device-Manager-server>\Server\config\server.properties

• In Unix, <installation-folder-for-the-Device-Manager-server>/Server/config/server.properties

– If the properties are changed, Device Manager server has to be restarted to take effect.

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Support

• Device Manager server communicates with SMI-S providers to retrieve a subsystem information and to configure the subsystem.

Management Server

SMI-S Provider

EMC Navisphere Manager

Management Server

SMI-S Provider

HP Command View EVA

Management Server

Web Server

Hitachi Device Manager

Java App

HDvM Server

SMI-S ClientCLARiiON

EVA

HDvM Server to SMI-S Provider

SMI-S Provider to subsystemsLAN

5988http

5989https

Default Port NumberCommunication

Type

Network Configuration

Default network port SMI-S providers listen on

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Support

• Hitachi Device Manager 6.1.1 now supports the following SMI-S enabled subsystems to simplify the virtualization process.

– EMC CLARiiON

• CX200, CX300, CX400, CX500, CX600, CX700, CX3 series

– HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)

• 3000, 4000, 4400, 5000, 6000, 8000

• SMI-S providers have to be set up to manage subsystems so that Device Manager can discover the SMI-S enabled systems.

1.2HP StorageWorks Command View EVA 8.0.2 or laterHP

EMC

Vendor

1.2

SMI-S version

EMC Solutions Enabler 6.5 or later

EMC SMI-S Provider 3.3 or later

SMI-S Provider

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Discovery - GUI

• “Add Subsystem” feature is enhanced to register SMI-S enabled subsystems to HDvM.

• IP address or host name of the SMI-S provider server has to be specified.

• Device Manager discovers subsystems that the SMI-S provider manages.– If 2 subsystems are managed by the SMI-S providers, Device Manager

discovers 2 subsystems.

Subsystems View

“SMI-S_Enabled” should be selected from the drop down list.

5989

5988

Default Port Number

Non-Secure

Secure

Protocol

- The protocol and the port number depends on the SMI-S provider setting.- “Secure” protocol is selected as a default.

A user with administrator privileges to the SMI-S enabled subsystems should be registered.

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Reporting - GUI

• Basic subsystem information is reported on the Subsystems view.

– The vendor name and serial number are provided to identify the subsystem.

– The configured capacity is the total capacity of volumes.

Subsystems View

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Storage Management Tool Launch - GUI

• Device Manager provides a capability to launch third vendor storage management tools from the subsystem view.

• The launch URL is retrieved from the SMI-S provider at the time of the discovery.

– The URL used to launch the management tool is from “AccessInfo” property in CIM_RemoteServiceAccessPoint class.

– The launch URL can be manually registered or overwritten by using Device Manager CLI.

HP StorageWorks Command View EVA launch EMC Navisphere Manager launch

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem - Others

• “Modify Properties” feature is provided to handle the SMI-S provider machine replacement, user or password change.

– Once “Modify Properties” is performed, the subsystem will be refreshed automatically in addition to change the properties.

• Refresh can be used to update the subsystem configuration information to Hitachi Device Manager.

• “Remove Subsystem” button is provided to remove the specified SMI-S enabled subsystem from Device Manager.

Modify PropertiesRefresh

User ID

Port Number

Protocol

Password

IP Address

Name

Properties

Properties the user can change

Remove

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Support - CLI

• AddStorageArray command is enhanced to discover a SMI-S enabled subsystem.

Optional

Optional

Required

Required

Required

Required

Required

Condition

Password used to access to the SMI-S providerarraypasswd

Either of protocols can be specified,

Non-secure: HTTP communication

Secure: HTTPS communication

If omitted, “Secure” will be set.

protocol

Specify “SMI-S_Enabled”.displayfamily

User ID used to access to the SMI-S provideruserid

Specify “SMI-S_Enabled”family

portnumber

ipaddress

Parameter

The port number the SMI-S provider listens. The default value is set according to the specified protocol.

5988: Non-secure

5989: Secure

The IP address or host name of the SMI-S provider

Description

>HiCommandCLI AddStorageArray ipaddress=10.123.15.1 family=SMI-S_Enabled displayfamily=SMI-S_Enabled

userid=dvm arraypasswd=dvm

...

AddStorageArray command parameters

Sample:

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Report - CLI

• 2 commands are supported to report basic subsystem and the SMI-S provider information.

– GetStorageArray

– GetStorageArray (subtarget=CommParameters)

>HiCommandCLI getStorageArray subtarget=commparameters

saobjid=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

RESPONSE:

An instance of StorageArray

objectID=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

name=CLARiiON(CLARiiON+APM00051603452)@172.17.173.68

serialNumber=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

arrayFamily=SMI-S_Enabled

arrayType=CLARiiON(Rack Mounted CX300)

numberOfControllers=-1

capacityInGB=2,463

...

capacityInKB=2,582,644,551

...

lastRefreshed=1,231,866,336

...

List of 1 CommParameters elements:

An instance of CommParameters

arrayFamily=SMI-S_Enabled

ipAddress=172.17.173.68

portNumber=5989

protocol=Secure

userID=root

Sample:

saobjid

Parameter

-The object ID of the SMI-S enabled subsystem.

- An object ID can be obtained by executing GetStorageArray command without specifying any parameters.

- If Object ID of Hitachi storage subsystem is specified to the parameter, the command returns an error.

Description

Reuired parameter to report particular subsystem

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SMI-S Enabled Subsystem Refresh and Removal - CLI

• AddStorageArray command supports to refresh particular SMI-S enabled subsystem.

• DeleteStorageArray command can be performed to remove SMI-S enabled subsystem from HDvM.

saobjid

Parameter

The object ID of the subsystem.

An object ID can be obtained by executing GetStorageArray command without specifying any parameters.

Description

Reuired parameter to refresh and remove the subsystem

>HiCommandCLI AddStorageArray saobjid=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

RESPONSE:


objectID=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

name=CLARiiON(CLARiiON+APM00051603452)@172.17.173.68

serialNumber=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

...

Sample: DeleteStorageArray

>HiCommandCLI DeleteStorageArray saobjid=CLARiiON+APM00051603452

RESPONSE:

(Command completed; empty list returned)

Sample: AddStorageArray (Refresh)

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Tiered Storage Manager version 6.1 SMI-S Storage Management Enhancements

• Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager supports external storage configuration to simplify constructing external storage tiers

– Supported local subsystem (Storage Domain)

• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V or Universal Storage Platform VM, microcode version 60-04-xx-xx/xx or later

– Supported external subsystem (SMI-S enabled subsystem)• EMC CRALiiON CX, CX3

• HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)

Note: Both local and external subsystems have to be first discovered by Hitachi Device Manager.

High Performance Tier

External Storage Tier

VolumeMigration

Universal Storage Platform V

CreateMap

External Subsystem(SMI-S Enabled)

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Tiered Storage Manager 6.1 SMI-S Storage Management Enhancements

• Prerequisites

– Ports in a Universal Storage Platform V or Universal Storage Platform VM are configured as external ports.

– The external ports defined in a Universal Storage Platform and the target port

in external subsystem are physically connected by the Fibre Channel.

– The storage pool which is equivalent to Array Group in the external

subsystem has been already prepared.

• The following chart shows operation flow,

Create a volume in the external

subsystem (option)

Create a volume in the external

subsystem (option)

Search a volume in the external subsystem

Search a volume in the external subsystem

Create External Mapping Task

Create External Mapping Task Execute the Task

Execute the Task

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Tiered Storage Manager 6.1 SMI-S Volume Creation – Free Space Search

• Free space search capability is supported in order to create volumes.

Search ScreenSMI-S enabled subsystems managed by Device Manager can be selected from Search in box.

Note:

-Emulation type columns will be blank since this is Hitachi specific.

-“Disk Type”, “Disk Capacity”, and “Disk RPM” are unknown since SMI-S provider returns it.

CLARiiON

EVA

- ”Capacity”, ”Total Free Capacity”, and “RAID Level”search attributes can be used to search specific free spaces.

- If no search attributes are selected, all free spaces in the subsystem will be displayed.

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Tiered Storage Manager 6.1 SMI-S Volume Creation

• Once a free space is found in the result, the user can select the free space and click “Create Volume” button to start setting parameters for the volume to be created.

• Only the capacity can be entered for SMI-S enabled subsystems.

-Capacity can be specified in KB, MB, GB, and TB, but decimal point cannot be specified.

-The option can be checked to execute task after the confirm button is clicked.

- The default is checked and executing the task immediately.

Only one Free Space can be selected.

Search Screen

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Tiered Storage Manager 6.1 SMI-S Volume Creation – Volume Creation Task

• A volume creation task is generated and can then be executed.

Task Screen

- SMI-S enabled subsystem information is displayed on the Detailed Information tab.

-The component status shows the volume to be created and volume ID will be assigned by SMI-S enabled subsystem.

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HTSM SMI-S Volume Creation – Volume Creation Task

• The task status will be changed as soon as the volume creation task is executed.

Status Transition

• Volume ID is assigned automatically by SMI-S enabled subsystem.

• Volume ID format depends on the vendor.

EMC

OR

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Device Manager 6.1SMI-S 1.3 Support

• Autonomous Profiles: Array, Server

• Component Profiles: Access Points, Block Server Performance, Block Services, Disk Drive Lite, Extent Composition, FC Initiator Ports, FC Target Ports, Location, Masking and Mapping, Multiple Computer System, Object Manager Adapter, Physical Package, Profile Registration, Software, iSCSI Target Ports

• Early Adopter Component Profiles: Block Storage Views, Storage Element Protection, Volume Composition

• Note on Object Manager Adaptor subprofile support

– CIMOM supports HTTP and HTTPS for the communication protocol.

– The subprofile provides classes so that a client can start or stop the communication in HTTP or HTTPS.

– The default is HTTP.

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Other Installation Enhancements

Server Installation Enhancements

• Improved multiuser support

• Free Space attribute support

• Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager Installation Integration

• Unattended Installation Enhancement

Agent installation Enhancements

• Required patches verification

• Unattended un-installation

• Hiscan Default Value changes

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Hardware Support

• Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM Enhancements support

– Encrypted device identification

– New host mode options support

– 450GB 15K rpm Fiber Channel disk drive identification (CLI)

• Additional Enhancements for Hitachi Universal Volume Manager

– Path priority configuration (CLI)

• Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Hitachi SimpleModular Storage Enhancements support

– SAS 450GB disk drive identification

– Restriction for SSL communication

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Encrypted Device Identification

• As the Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM support data encryption, Hitachi Device Manager reports LDEVs and array groups which encrypted data is contained.

• Encrypted LDEVs can be identified by looking at “Volume Attr” and listed by using filtering feature on GUI.

• “Encrypted” attribute is added to LDEV and Array Group instances and the 2 commands report the attribute.

– GetStorageArray(subtarget=ArrayGroup)– GetStorageArray(subtarget=LDEV)

>HiCommandCLI GetStorageArray

subtarget=LDEV model=USP_V serialnum=10007

RESPONSE:


(Attributes of StorageArray are omitted

here)

List of 6930 Ldev elements:

An instance of LDEV

objectID=*****

devNum=0

displayName=00:00:00

...

encrypted=1

...

For arrays other than USP V/VM-1

The data is encrypted1

0

Value

The data is not encrypted

Encrypted

DescriptionAttributeGUI

CLI output attribute

Sample: GetStorageArray (subtarget=LDEV)

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New Host Mode Options Support

• The following host mode options are supported by the Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM and the options can be set by Device Manager GUI and CLI.

Add Storage Wizard

Inquiry/ Report LUN is started by priority configured by the host or HBA.41Prioritized device recognition command

This is required for IBM Z10 Linux.42Prevent "OHUB PCI retry“

The capacity will be recognized by a host after increasing the THP volume capacity.

The host mode has to be Windows( mode 0C) or Windows Extension (mode 2C)40V-Vol expansion

Queue Full Response

Set/Report Device Identifier enable

Host Mode Option

When Queue Full occurs, Queue Full is always returned to the host.

This is used to set a nickname for a device.

One of the host mode, HP (mode 03), OpenVMS (mode 05), or Tru64 (mode 07) is

required.

Description

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Values

• The host mode options can be specified to hostModeOption parameter in the following commands.

– AddHostStorageDomain

– ModifyPort

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New Fiber Channel Disk Drive Identification

• Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM support 450GB 15K rpm Fiber Channel disk drive.

• Device Manager CLI reports the disk drive.– GetStorageArray (subtarget=PDEV)

>HiCommandCLI GetStorageArray subtarget=PDEV model=USP_V serialnum=10007

RESPONSE:


(Attributes of StorageArray are omitted here)

List of 1 PDEV elements:

An instance of PDEV

objectID=****

chassis=1

arrayGroup=224

arrayGroupName=1-15-1

capacityInKB=430,240,385

row=-1

column=-1

depth=-1

role=

vendor=

model=DKR2H-K450FC

firmwareVersion=

serialNumber=

dkuType=USP_V/VM

rpm=15000

diskType=-1

pdevid=3,584

...

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External Storage Setting Enhancement

• AddExternalArrayGroup command which is used for the volume mapping is

enhanced to set the path priority.

• “portname”,”externalwwn”, and “externallun” values are specified as a set to define

a mapping path and the set order will be the priority order.

Example:

>HiCommandCLI AddExternalArrayGroup serialnum=14053 model=USP_Vportname= CL1-H, CL5-Hexternalwwn= 50.06.0E.80.04.36.E5.00, 50.06.0E.80.04.36.E5.01

externallun= 100, 101 RESPONSE:


(… omitted …)

List of 2 ExternalPathInfo elements:

An instance of ExternalPathInfo

objectID=*****

externalwwn=50.06.0E.80.04.36.E5.00

...

priority=1

An instance of ExternalPathInfo

objectID=*****

externalwwn=50.06.0E.80.04.36.E5.01

...

priority=2

Primary path

Alternate path

Priority attribute is added to ExternalPathInfo instance to identify

the primary or alternate path.

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Enhancement Support – Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Hitachi Simple Modular Storage

• As the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Simple Modular Storage support SAS 450GB disk drives, Device Manager reports SAS in the type.

• CLI reports SAS disk type in the following commands,

– GetStorageArray(subtarget=LDEV)

– GetStorageArray(subtarget=PDEV)

Volumes can be filtered by SAS type.

SAS is reported on the type column.

4

Value

The value indicates SAS drivediskType

DescriptionAttribute

CLI output attribute

>HiCommandCLI GetStorageArray subtarget=LDEV

model=AMS2100 serialnum=83000081

RESPONSE:


(Attributes of StorageArray are omitted)

List of 230 Ldev elements:

An instance of LDEV

objectID=*****

devNum=0

displayName=30

...

diskType=4

...

Sample: GetStorageArray (subtarget=LDEV)

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• Restriction for SSL communication

– Systems support SSL in microcode version V4(x840/x or later), but Device Manager V6.1 does not support SSL to communicate with the Adaptable

Modular Storage 2000 family and Simple Modular Storage.

– Device Manager requires non-SSL port to manage them.

Enhancement Support – Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Hitachi Simple Modular Storage

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Operating System Support

The following operating systems are newly supported.

Note: Provisioning Manager server, web client, and agent support charts are same as HDvM.

Supportedn/aNEWNEWNEWWindows Vista SP1

Supportedn/aNEWNEWNEWWindows Server 2008

NEWn/an/an/aNEWVMWare ESX Server 3.x

(Guest OS: Windows)

NEWn/aNEWNEWNEW

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.2

n/an/aNEWNEWNEWWindows XP SP3

NEWn/aSupportedSupportedNEWRed Hat Enterprise Linux

AS/ES 4.6

CLIEXServer AgentCLIWeb Client

ClientOperating Systems

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Web Browser Support

Note: Device Manager Provisioning Manager component web client support charts are same as HDvM.

The following web browsers are supported.

Solaris 10

HP-UX 11i v3

Firefox 2.0

Red Hat Linux 5.2

Operating Systems

Firefox 3.0

Web Browsers

The following web browser is withdrawn from the support.

Solaris 9

Operating Systems

Mozilla 1.4

Web Browsers

Questions/Discussion

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Upcoming WebTech Seminars

• Upcoming Microsoft Exchange Series

– Archive: Optimizing your storage infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange Archiving with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, March 11, 2009, 9 am PT

– Manage: Optimal Storage Performance for Microsoft Exchange using Hitachi Tuning Manager, April 15, 2009, 9 am PT

• Other Sessions

– Adding Search to NetApp Environments, February 25, 2009, 9 am PT

– Best Practices for Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, Powered by Aptare®to Increase Storage Utilization and Decrease Costs, March 18, 2009, 9 am PT

– The Economics of Storage Virtualization, March 25, 2009, 9 am PT

• Please check www.hds.com/webtech for:

– Link to the recording, the presentation, and Q&As (available next week)

– Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

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