how to tell the storage type

[biaoqi]

dear expert,

 In my virtual partition hpux11.31, i could find the disk by ioscan -fnC disk. But i wanted to know what type storage was connected. The description of storage dev was HP Virtual Disk . Please help me to tell the storage device's  name such as xp1000, emc,or 3par.

[support_s]

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[biaoqi]

pairdisplay -fe
sh: pairdisplay: not found.

[Bill Hassell]

Unfortunately, HPE only provides HP Virtual Disk (or similar) for any query to array LUNs. That useless ID covers many different models over more than 2 decades of disk arrays.  Each disk array family has a different set of tools for managing or viewing these arrays, and most will not run inside a virtual partition due to low level I/O requirements. And most of the array tools are not supplied with standard HP-UX.

The only solution is to look at the attached device(s), or take a picture front and back for remote systems.

[mbarnwal]

You would need to find the actual physical disk which is presented to vPar. You can use /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmdevinfo on vPar or VSP to find the mapping. Once you have the name of physical disk, ioscan on the VSP for that disk should show the type of disk array used.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Another alternative you could consider is (if your FC HBA and FC topology support it), instead of using virtual disks, create a NPIV vHBA and then you can present actual physical LUNs straight to the vPar. See this manual here:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00050738en_us

Starting at p107 in the scetion entitled "NPIV with vPars and Integrity VM"

[JaroslawSawicki]

thanks!!