Adding block storage

Ops Center Administrator User Guide
Version
11.0.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-99ADM001-23

When you add a storage system, you associate it with the management software, enabling you to manage it from the dashboard.

Note: Onboarding a storage system also migrates server information from the embedded management tool. For data integrity purposes, the embedded management provisioning function is turned off after migration.

For details, see "Appendix A: Migrating to Ops Center Administrator" in the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator Getting Started Guide.

Verify the following:

  • The user name used to onboard a storage system has access to all resource groups on the storage system, including custom resource groups and meta resource groups, so that workflows function correctly.
  • The user is a member of the Administration Users Group.
  • The storage system is set to SNMPv3 to receive storage system alerts. If the storage systems have SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c settings configured, you can still onboard the storage systems, but alert information for these storage systems is not shown in the user interface. For alerts to be received from onboarded storage systems, change the SNMP setting to SNMPv3, then restart the server so that the management software is added as an SNMP trap destination.

    To launch Storage Navigator under one of the following conditions, the account used for onboarding must be authenticated locally by Storage Navigator:

    • The storage system is VSP G1x00 or VSP F1500.
    • The Storage Navigator Launch Setting option is disabled.
Note: To get storage system alerts from two or more VSP G1x00/VSP F1500 storage systems, enable Use a unique SNMP engine ID for all VSP G1x00 and VSP F1500 storage systems. To do this, see "Edit Advanced System Settings wizard" in the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1x00 and F1500 System Administrator Guide.
Note: Some storage systems support upgrading the controllers by replacing the Controller Board. After replacing the Controller Board, update the storage system data by manually refreshing or waiting for the automatic refresh to complete. You can confirm that the data is successfully updated by verifying the following information:
  • The MODEL in the storage system inventory and storage system details is updated.
  • The report showing that the storage system model is updated is reported in the Jobs window.
  1. On the dashboard, click the Storage Systems (Storage systems) icon.
  2. Click the plus sign (+) to add a storage system.
  3. In the Onboard Storage System window, enter values for the following parameters:
    IP Address:
    VSP One Block: Enter the service IP address (IPv4) for the target storage system.
    All other VSP storage systems:
    • Storage system with an SVP: Enter the IP address (IPv4) of the external SVP for the target storage system.
    • Storage system without an SVP: Enter the GUM IP address (IPv4) of the controller for the target storage system.
    User name and password:
    Enter the credentials for a user who has administrator privileges on this storage system. For example, you can log in with the username maintenance.
    Note: If the storage system has a virtual SVP, you can specify the SVP access port number following the IP address in the IP address field. The syntax is IP-address:Port-number.
  4. Click Submit.

When you successfully add a 4-node cluster, a message displays requesting that you ensure both storage systems in the global-active device pair are added before performing procedures.

The Jobs window is updated with a job called Create Storage System. If you are adding multiple storage systems, there is a job for each one.

Wait a while for the management software to add the storage system. Refresh the Jobs window to verify that the storage system is onboarded.

The dashboard shows that the number of storage systems is incremented by one. Additionally, when you click the Storage Systems (Storage systems) icon, you are redirected to the storage system inventory window where you can see the newly added storage system.

When a storage system is onboarded, there is an initialization process that gathers information about the current configuration of the storage system. During this time, you see that the ports, volumes, pools, and parity groups in the storage system are "Not accessible". After the initialization is complete, you can see the port, pool, volume, and parity group information in the Storage System detail window.

  1. From the parity groups inventory window, create parity groups to convert the raw disk capacity into usable capacity.
  2. From the Settings tab, access the tier definitions before creating pools.