topic VA7410 partition in Disk Enclosures

VA7410 partition

Jesse Dougherty — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:21:10 GMT

Can one VA7410 be partitioned in two so that two independent servers can access their own partition on the array?

Jesse
Cypress Tech

Re: VA7410 partition

TTr — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:45:24 GMT

I think the VA calls it LUN security and it is an add-on software license. Check the installation guide
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpg60188/lpg60188.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
and search for references to it. A short description of the sw is below but given that the VAs are no longer selling, I don't know if you can still get it. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=64122&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=lpg64071

Re: VA7410 partition

Torsten. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:06:14 GMT

For this reason the secure manager was used. It works (more or less) just like the presentation in EVA's.

The problem is, it was an add-on, but I think you cannot get it any longer.

Re: VA7410 partition

krusty — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:09:33 GMT

Hi Jesse,

Yes it can. As a matter of fact, that is kind of the purpose of an array - to serve LUNS to dozens or hundreds of hosts. As the prior person stated, you use a feature of all disk arrays called LUN Masking (this array calls it Secure LUN Manager), to allow only one host to access the LUNs you specify with the software.

Sincerely,

Curt