Logical unit creation and deletion on HDS Thunder, Hitachi AMS 200, AMS 500, and AMS 1000, WMS100, and HDS TagmaStore WMS systems

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You can use the HDS Thunder, Hitachi AMS 200, AMS 500, and AMS 1000, WMS100, and HDS TagmaStore WMS systems Storage Navigator Modular Graphical User Interface (GUI) to create and delete LUNs. You must avoid certain creation and deletion scenarios to prevent data corruption.

Creation and deletion scenarios

For example, you can use the Storage Navigator Modular GUI to create LUN A, delete LUN A, and then create LUN B with the same unique ID as LUN A. If the system is attached, data corruption can occur because the system might not realize that LUN B is different than LUN A.

Attention: Before you use the Storage Navigator Modular GUI to delete a LUN, remove the LUN from the storage pool that contains it.

Adding LUNs dynamically

To prevent the existing LUNs from rejecting I/O operations during the dynamic addition of LUNs, complete the following procedure to add LUNs:
  1. Create the LUNs by using the Storage Navigator Modular GUI.
  2. Quiesce all I/O operations.
  3. Complete either an offline format or an online format of all new LUNs on the controller by using the Storage Navigator Modular GUI. Wait for the format to complete.
  4. Go into the LUN mapping function of the Storage Navigator Modular GUI. Add mapping for the new LUN to all of the controller ports that are available to the system on the fabric.
  5. Restart the controller. (Model 9200 only)
  6. After the controller restarts, restart I/O operations.

LUN mapping considerations

If LUN mapping is used as described in the LUN mapping topic, you must restart the controller to pick up the new LUN mapping configuration. For each storage pool that contains an MDisk that is supported by an LU on the system, all volumes in those storage pools go offline.