Saturday, December 8, 2012

HP COMMAND VIEW EVA TUTORIAL


HP COMMAND VIEW EVA 5000 Series:

HP EVA 5000 Storage Appliance Introduction:


To access the HP EVA 5000 Storage Appliance , access through the Command view EVA.

Type your access URL.
Provide the username and password.


Now you are getting the storage main page which you can discover your devices and configure your devices.

You can monitor your storage through this Tools tab.




You can click the devices tab, then you can discover, configure and manage devices in the storage system.



If you click command view , you can see the command view main page.

The new storage system is uninitialized now. We need to initialize first.




You press the initialize button, then your storage system start to initialize.


If you go for an initialization, then you will lose your existing data in the disks.


Set the storage name and number of disks.



Set the number of disks fail over.




Storage initialization completed successfully.



Now you can see the properties of the storage.


The following menus are available to configure:

Virtual Disk
Host
Disk Group
Data Replication
Hardware


Using these menus, we can create a virtual disk, add a host and manage hardware.


Using hardware menu you can see the hardware properties.



Expand your hardware(RACK1), you can see the controller enclosure and disk enclosures.



Controller Enclosure which has the two controller and their properties.
Controller A is active and good status.


In host ports tab, you can see the host port properties.


You can see the device ports properties in the device port tab.


Enclosure properties like temperature, blower, cache and power supplies.


Disk Enclosure tab, we man monitor power, cooling and I/O Communication properties.


You can check the power supply status using Power tab.


You can check the cooling status, by using Cooling Tab.



To check the I/O Communications, press I/O comm Tab.




To see the Disk Shelf Bay Details.



To list Disk bay and Disk drive details.


Creating Virtual Disks:

To see the vdisk folder Properties.


Creating a new vdisk folder with the name of DBSETHIL.



Adding hosts :




Specify the host information




Select the WWN of your host.
Select the host Operating System




Add a comment (Optional) then finish. This process will add the host to the HP EVA.


To list the Host Properties.



Creating Virtual Disk and RAID Level.



Select the size of the LUN and select the host to Map and Mask.




Now the vdisk successfully Created.




To see the vdisk properties and data replication.

Using this tab you can create snapshots and snapclones.



To list the available hosts.







NetApp Virtual Console for Citrix XenCenter



NetApp Virtual Console For Xen Server Installation:


Download the NetApp virtual console for Xen from NetApp NOW site.

Double click the exe file.



Accept the end user license agreement.



Select the installation directory location.



Then it is starting the installation.



Once the Installation successfully completed, then open the xen center.


Discovering the NetApp Filer:


In tools menu you have an option NetApp SVC.

Then you go for the discover your NetApp Filer.




To Discover, provide the filer's hostname or IP and Filer access credentials. Once it's authenticated 
successfully it will show your netapp filer information.




It discovers the filer and aggregate.



Filer information.



New Storage Creation:

Now go for the new storage creation wizard to create new storage.


  • iscsi LUN
  • FC LUN
  • NFS Shares
  • CIFS Shares


Select the NFS Store option.




Set the name for the NFS store.



Set the NetApp Filer's NFS shares absolute path.
Server:\path


Now the NetApp NFS share added to the Xen Server. Ans also it is connected.



NFS Library available.




Same as NFS you can create CIFS share Library also.



Set the NetApp Filer's CIFS share name.




Now you can access the CIFS shares via your Xen Server.




Same as you can create LUN from NetApp filer using FC or iscsi.

Set the iscsi Target(NetApp Filer iscsi Portal address) and default port number is 3260.

Press Discover iqn , this will automatically discover the target's iqn.

Press discover the LUN, this will automatically discover the LUN's mapped to this host and iqn.

Now you have a LUN.








Now it is creating New SR. 
Then your iscsi LUN from NetApp Filer added to the Xen Server.
Now you can create a new virtual machine using this new SR.




All the Best .....................