Configuring a quorum disk by creating an external volume

Ops Center Administrator High Availability User Guide

Version
11.0.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-99ADM003-17
  • Ensure that the two storage systems that make up the global-active device environment and the external storage system in which the volume used as the quorum disk is configured are connected by physical paths.
  • Ensure that the volume used as the quorum disk is assigned a port on each of the two storage systems that make up the global-active device environment.
  • If you want to use iSCSI to connect with the external storage system, make sure that external iSCSI targets are already registered.
  • Identify the following items required to configure the external volume:
    • Port to use for external connection
    • Model and serial number of the external storage system
    • Port information for the external storage system that is connected with a port for external connections:
      • When using Fibre Channel for the protocol, you can specify WWN.
      • When using iSCSI for the protocol, you can specify iSCSI target name and IP address.
    • LUN of the volume used as the quorum disk

      If you use a volume with a size that exceeds 4 TiB, the size of the external volume that is created will be 4 TiB.

    • Name of the external volume
    • ID of the external volume group
    • ID of the external path group
  • Identify the following information required to configure the quorum disk:
    • ID of the quorum disk
    • Models and serial numbers of the paired storage system that shares the quorum disk
  • Make sure that the user performing the procedure is assigned the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role.
  1. From the navigation tree, select Replication > Remote > External Volumes.
  2. Click Create External Volume.
  3. Select the port for external connection, and then click Next.
    An inventory of available external paths appears.
  4. Select the external path to use, and then click Next.
    An inventory of available volumes appears.
  5. Select the LUN of the volume used as the quorum disk, and specify the name of the external volume, the ID of the external parity group, and the ID of the external path group.
  6. Click Submit.
    Information about the newly configured external volume is shown in the list of external volumes.
  7. Select the check box for the external volume for which Quorum disk settings must be configured and click Configure Quorum Disk Setting in the action bar.
  8. Specify the required items and click Submit.