Storage Foundation 8.0 Administrator's Guide - Windows
- Overview
- Setup and configuration
- Function overview
- About the client console for Storage Foundation
- Recommendations for caching-enabled disks
- Configure basic disks (Optional)
- About creating dynamic disk groups
- About creating dynamic volumes
- Set desired preferences
- Using the GUI to manage your storage
- Working with disks, partitions, and volumes
- Adding storage
- Disk tasks
- Remove a disk from the computer
- Veritas Disk ID (VDID)
- General Partition/Volume tasks
- Mount a volume at an empty folder (Drive path)
- Expand a dynamic volume
- Shrink a dynamic volume
- Basic disk and volume tasks
- Automatic discovery of SSD devices and manual classification as SSD
- Volume Manager space allocation is SSD aware
- Dealing with disk groups
- Disk groups overview
- Delete a dynamic disk group
- Detaching and attaching dynamic disks
- Importing and deporting dynamic disk groups
- Partitioned shared storage with private dynamic disk group protection
- Fast failover in clustered environments
- iSCSI SAN support
- Settings for monitoring objects
- Event monitoring and notification
- Event notification
- Configuring Automatic volume growth
- Standard features for adding fault tolerance
- Performance tuning
- FlashSnap
- FlashSnap components
- FastResync
- Snapshot commands
- Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
- Dynamic disk group join
- Using Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join with a cluster on shared storage
- Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join troubleshooting tips
- Fast File Resync
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
- Using the VSS snapshot wizards with Microsoft Exchange
- Using the VSS snapshot wizards with Enterprise Vault
- Using the VSS snapshot wizards with Microsoft SQL
- Copy on Write (COW)
- Using the VSS COW snapshot wizards with Microsoft Exchange
- Using the VSS COW snapshot wizards with Microsoft SQL
- Configuring data caching with SmartIO
- Typical deployment scenarios
- About cache area
- Configuring SmartIO
- Frequently asked questions about SmartIO
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Configuring Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
- Configuring a CVM cluster
- Administering CVM
- Access modes for cluster-shared volumes
- Storage disconnectivity and CVM disk detach policy
- Unconfiguring a CVM cluster
- Command shipping
- About I/O Fencing
- Administering site-aware allocation for campus clusters
- SFW for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Introduction to Storage Foundation solutions for Hyper-V environments
- Live migration support for SFW dynamic disk group
- Preparing the host machines
- Configuring the SFW storage
- Administering storage migration for SFW and Hyper-V virtual machine volumes
- Optional Storage Foundation features for Hyper-V environments
- Microsoft Failover Clustering support
- Configuring a quorum in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
- Implementing disaster recovery with Volume Replicator
- Troubleshooting and recovery
- Using disk and volume status information
- Resolving common problem situations
- Commands or procedures used in troubleshooting and recovery
- Rescan command
- Repair volume command for dynamic mirrored volumes
- Additional troubleshooting issues
- Disk issues
- Volume issues
- Disk group issues
- Connection issues
- Issues related to boot or restart
- Cluster issues
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing issues
- vxsnap issues
- Other issues
- CVM issues
- Appendix A. Command line interface
- Overview of the command line interface
- vxclustadm
- vxvol
- vxdg
- vxclus
- vxdisk
- vxassist
- vxassist (Windows-specific)
- vxsd
- vxedit
- vxdmpadm
- vxcbr
- vxsnap
- vxscrub
- sfcache
- Tuning SFW
- Appendix B. VDID details for arrays
Format of VDID strings for disks belonging to various arrays
The Veritas Disk ID (VDID) is a string that contains the information that can identify the array that a disk is contained in. The VDID string is shown in the GUI as a part of the display of information for disks. The VDID string is also shown as a result of the vxdisk diskinfo and the vxdisk list CLI commands.
The following table describes the format of the VDID strings for the disks that belong to various arrays.
Note:
For the disks that the ddlprov provider discovers, the VDID string format for its array is "VID_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber". For the disks that the ddlprov provider does not discover, the VDID string format for its array is "VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber". Note that the following is not a complete list of such arrays.
Cisco | MDS | SCSI Inquiry Page 83 data |
COMPAQ | HSG80/HSG80CCL | SCSI Inquiry Page 83 data |
Default | All models | DevicePath@HostName |
EMC | Clarion | EMC_DGC_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
EMC | Symmetrix/DMX | EMC_SYMMETRIX_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
Hitachi | 9960, 9970, 9980, 9200, 9500, 7700, USP | HITACHI_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
HP-EVA | HSV | HP_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
HP-XP | 1024 | HP_1024_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
HP-XP | 512 | HP512_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
HP-XP | 128 | HP128_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
IBM | DS8000, DS6000 | IBM_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
IBM | 200, 700, 600, 400, Fast_T | IBM_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
IBM-LSI | All models | SCSI Inquiry Page 83 data |
IBM Shark | F20, ESS 800, F10 | IBM_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
JBOD | all models | {WWWN}+{SCSI LUNID} |
NETAPP | F825, FAS900 | NETAPPP_LUN_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
SUN-T3 | All models | SCSI Inquiry Page 83 data |
3PAR | Inserv Storage Server, E-Class, F-Class, S-Class, T-Class | 3PARdata_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
DELL | Equalogic PS5000/PS6000 Series | VID_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
PILLAR | Axiom 300/500/600 | VID_PID_CabinetSerialNumber_LUNSerialNumber |
Fujitsu | All models | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
Compellent | All models | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
EMC | VPLEX | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
HP | MSA P2000 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
HP | MSA 2040 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
IBM | DS5020 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
IBM | DS3524 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
Sun | 6540 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |
Sun | 7310 | VID_PID_DISKS_LUNSerialNumber |