Swapping vraids

[Paul Whapshott]

Hi,
I have 1 TEST VMS Server that I have VMS 8.3 installed on 1 disk and 7.3-2 on the other.
When I want to boot VMS 8.3 I use Command View to make this disk accessible to the host and set the 7.3-2 disk to no present.

Is there a way I could automate this using SSSU. If so could an example be given please.


Thanks for any help.

Regards,

Paul

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[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

Absolutely no problem! SSSU is just made for these tasks.

Use the "ADD LUN" and "DELETE LUN" commands.

For the format of "ADD LUN", check the output of "CAPTURE CONFIGURATION" - "DELETE LUN" just uses the same path.

[Paul Whapshott]

Thanks Uwe,

I dont have much experience with sssu, however I don't want to delete any vraids (is that what DEL LUN does?) I just need to set nopresent and PRESENT to 1 server!.


Regards,

Paul

[Stephen Kebbell]

Hi,

confusing as it may sound, DELETE LUN just removes a presentation. DELETE VDISK would delete the Vdisk and the data on it.

From the SSSU User's Guide:
The DELETE LUN command removes access to a virtual disk from a host.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00605847/c00605847.pdf

Regards,
Stephen

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Paul,

If you haven't already you'll probably want to review the SSSU reference guide here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00605847/c00605847.pdf

Just to confirm:

The DELETE LUN command removes access to a
virtual disk from a host.

The ADD LUN command makes virtual disks available to a host.

Cheers,

Rob

[Uwe Zessin]

"ADD LUN" maps an existing virtual disk into a host's LUN address space and "DELETE LUN" removes that mapping - it DOES NOT delete existing virtual disks. I know it, as I have used these commands a number of times.

Unfortunately the term "LUN" is used for many different things, so I can understand your confusion.

[Paul Whapshott]

Thanks for your quick input gentlemen. The explanations have cleared it up for me.

Many thanks,

Paul