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U SER ’ S G UIDE D URA S TOR 720 0S LUN ZONING DuraStor 7200S L UN Zoning.book Page 1 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:14 PM[...]
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Cop yright © 2001-200 2 Adaptec , Inc. All right s reserved. No pa rt of this publ ication m ay be reproduced, stored in a retrieval syst em, or tran smitted in any form or by an y means , el ectr oni c, mech ani cal , phot ocopy ing , re cor din g or oth erwis e, wi thou t the prior written c onsen t of A daptec, Inc., 691 Sou th M ilpitas B lvd.[...]
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1 Using LUN Zoning In this Guide T o increase flexibility and provide more ef fective partitioni ng of your storage i nfrastructure, the Adaptec DuraStor 7200S controller suppor ts LUN zoni ng. Usin g LUN zo ning, yo u can allow a host to access a specific set of LU Ns on an array while restricting acces s to other LUNs in that array . Y ou use the[...]
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2 DuraS tor 72 00S LU N Zon ing Use r’ s G uide Bef ore Y ou Begin Before you set up LUN zoning, you sho uld know the W o rld W id e Name (WWN) for each host that you want to set up. Y our SAN administrator should know the WWNs for your network. An Over view of How It W ork s T o use your controller ’s LUN zoning featur e, you’ll be performin[...]
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3 A W ork ing Examp le A W orking Example The follow ing figure shows yo u an example of ho w you can use LUN zoning. In this example: ■ Array A has tw o partitions . Partition 1 h as an include list tha t contains only Acco unting , so only t he Accountin g host ca n access partition 1. ■ Array B , parti tion 3 h as an excl ude li st that cont[...]
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4 DuraS tor 72 00S LU N Zon ing Use r’ s G uide Viewing Kno wn WWNs Y o u can view a lis t of 16 ho st WW Ns t hat th e co ntroll er is aware of on your SAN. The con tr oller is aware of any host that was boo ted since the contro ller was last r estarted. T ypically , hosts scan for devices during their boot process. When this happens, the cont r[...]
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5 Creating Names for WWNs Creating Names f or WWNs T o make LUN zoning easier to manage, you can assign names, or aliases, to the hosts. For exam ple, you can use a computer name that has already been assign ed. Y ou can determine w hich WWN is for which host by booting one host at a time an d then viewing the WWN list. The most recent ly booted ho[...]
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6 DuraS tor 72 00S LU N Zon ing Use r’ s G uide Configuri ng LUN Zonin g Once you se t up host names ( aliases), you can easil y set up your LUN zoning . This is where you determine which ho sts can access each partition LUN. Y ou s et up LUN z oning by either excl uding or including host s on a list for each partition LUN. The li st can include [...]
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7 Config urin g LUN Zo ning 2 Select LUN Zoning , then pr ess Enter . The LUN Exclude list or LUN In clude list displays. The def ault setting for each partition LUN is Include All Hosts . This results in all hosts b eing able to access all partiti ons. Y ou can chan ge the list type using the Change Zone T ype optio n. See the next step. Whether y[...]
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8 DuraS tor 72 00S LU N Zon ing Use r’ s G uide ■ Include Listed Host s—Lets you enter or select the WWN s of the specif ic hosts you want to access the selected partition . The list of W WNs an d names that dis plays contains only the last 16 hosts that booted or that you na med . If yo u k now oth er W WN s or na mes , y ou can ente r the W[...]
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9 Changing All Partitions to Include All Hosts Changing Al l P artitions to I nc lude All Hos ts Using the General LUN Zoning menu option, you can change all partitions to include all hosts. Thi s means you can quick ly change the LUN zoni ng for all partition s at once to permit all hosts to see all partitio ns, overriding th e existing setting fo[...]
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10 DuraS tor 72 00S LU N Zon ing Use r’ s G uide Deleting a P art itio n Y ou can delete a partition w hen you no longer need it. Del eting it allows you to use the space for an other purpose. Caution: De let ing a par tit ion dele tes a ll d ata cont ain ed in the partition . Note: Y ou cannot delete a parti tion while a utility is runn ing on t[...]
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R Ada p t e c, In c . 691 South Milpitas Boulevar d Milpitas, CA 95035 USA ©2001 – 2002 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are tr adema rks o f Adap tec, Inc. wh ich may be registe red in some jur isdictio ns. Part N u mb e r : 513308 - 0 6 , Ver . A A , LF 07/02 DuraStor 7200S L UN Zoning.book Page 1 Tuesday, July 2[...]