Setting up the GAD secondary storage system

Global Active Device for VSP One Block

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10.5.x
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MK-23VSP1B011-11
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2026-06-23

To set up the GAD secondary storage system, you must create a pool volume of DP pool for journal, create a DP pool for journal, create a journal volume, and create a journal. The following shows the example of command execution for Windows.

  1. Create a pool. Specify the parity group (2-1) for which no volume has been created to create a Dynamic Provisioning pool whose pool ID is 1 and pool name is LJNL_POOL. After executing the command, confirm that the asynchronous command processing ended normally.
    raidcom add dp_pool -pool_id 1 -pool_name LJNL_POOL -parity_grp_id 2-1 -IH1
    raidcom get command_status -IH1
    HANDLE  SSB1  SSB2  ERR_CNT  Serial#  Description
    00c3       -     -        0   822222            -
  2. Check the pool capacity.
    raidcom get dp_pool -IH1
    PID  POLS  U(%)  AV_CAP(MB)  TP_CAP(MB)  W(%)  H(%)  Num  LDEV#  LCNT  TL_CAP(MB)
    001	 POLN	    0	     98196		     98196	  	70   	80	   1	 39321	    0	         	0
  3. Check the pool name.
    raidcom get pool -key opt -IH1
    PID  POLS	 U(%) 	POOL_NAME 	 Seq#	 Num 	LDEV#	 H(%) 	VCAP(%) 	TYPE 	PM
    001	 POLN	    0	 LJNL_POOL	822222   	1	 39321	   80	       - 	OPEN  	N
  4. Create a journal volume. Create a virtual volume (DP-VOL) whose capacity is 30 GB and LDEV ID is 0x8888 in a Dynamic Provisioning pool with the pool ID 1. After executing the command, confirm that the asynchronous command processing ended normally.
    raidcom add ldev -pool 1 -ldev_id 0x8888 -capacity 30G -IH1
    raidcom get command_status -IH1
    HANDLE  SSB1  SSB2  ERR_CNT  Serial#  Description
    00c3       -     -        0   822222            -
  5. Check the created volume.
    raidcom get ldev -ldev_id 0x8888 -fx -IH1
    Serial# : 822222
    LDEV : 8888
    (omitted)
    VOL_ATTR : CVS : DP
    (omitted)
  6. Create a journal. Specify the volume whose LDEV ID is 0x8888 to create a journal whose journal ID is 0. After executing the command, confirm that the asynchronous command processing ended normally.
    raidcom add journal -journal_id 0 -ldev_id 0x8888 -IH1
    raidcom get command_status -IH1
    HANDLE  SSB1  SSB2  ERR_CNT  Serial#  Description
    00c3       -     -        0   822222            -
  7. Confirm that the volume (LDEV ID: 0x8888) is registered to the journal (journal ID: 0) and check the journal capacity.
    raidcom get journal -IH1
    JID MU CTG JNLS AP U(%) Q-Marker Q-CNT D-SZ(BLK)   Seq# Num LDEV#
    000  0   1 PJNN  4   21 43216fde    30  62914560 822222 1   34952