CLARiiON Core Curriculum Workshop Labs

Lab 11
MetaLUNs
Introduction
A metaLUN is a grouping, also known as a volume, created by joining together
two or more FLARE LUNs. The FLARE LUNs in a metaLUN are referred to as
components of the metaLUN and if several striped LUNs are added together to
form a metaLUN they are considered a single component. The original FLARE
LUN that is expanded is called the base LUN and its data is preserved during the
expansion. A base LUN may be expanded through either concatenate expansion
where one or more components are added with no re-striping of the original base
LUNs data or through stripe expansion where the base LUNs data is re-striped
across the base LUN and the added components.

Objectives
At the conclusion of this lab, the user should be able to create and destroy
concatenated and/or striped metaLUNs and understand the requirements and
implications of these actions.

Materials Required
The following materials are required to complete this exercise:
Same as previous labs.

Preparing For This Lab

It is assumed that previous labs have been completed and that Navisphere
Release 12 has been installed on the array. Perform the following steps to
prepare the Array for this lab.

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Preparing for this lab.

1. Browse to your array and bind two 2GB LUNs, any RAID type, on each SP. Create
a Storage Group and add the LUNs just bound.
2. Create a 4-disk RAID Group and a 5-disk RAID Group.
3. On the 4-disk RAID Group bind the following RAID 1/0 LUNs:
SPA - (1) 1GB, (4) 2GB, (1) 3GB
SPB - (1) 1GB, (4) 2GB, (1) 3GB
4. On the 5-disk RAID Group bid the following RAID 5 LUNs:
SPA - (1) 1GB, (4) 2GB, (1) 3GB
SPB - (1) 1GB, (4) 2GB, (1) 3GB
5. When the LUNs have finished binding rename the newly bound LUNs to include
the size of the LUN and the owning SP in the name per the following example:
Default name = LUN 10 [10; RAID 5]
New name = LUN 10 (1GB-SPA) [10; RAID 5]
This is accomplished by selecting the LUN Properties and editing the LUN Name.
This procedure will help identify the LUNs in later steps in this lab.

Concatenated Expansion
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Concatenated Expansion
Select one of the newly bound 2GB RAID 1/0 LUNs on SPA.
Right-click and select Expand from the menu.
Click Next and choose Concatenate Expansion and click Next again.
Does the dialog box list all the LUNs you created? _________
If not, which are missing? _____________________________
Hold down the CTRL key and select a 1GB RAID 5 LUN from SPA and a
3GB RAID 1/0 LUN from SPB. Click Next.
What happens? ______________________________________
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Close any message boxes and choose a 2GB RAID 5 LUN from SPA and a
2GB RAID 5 LUN from SPB. Click Next.
What conclusions may be drawn? __________________________________

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Change the metaLUN Name from the default to metaLUN #, where # is the
original Base LUN number.
Set the Default Owner to SPA.
Set the Expansion Rate to High.
Leave all other parameters at the defaults.

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Review the Summary screen and click Finish then click OK.
In the main Navi tree, view the icon for the metaLUN.
Has the icon changed from the standard LUN icon? ______________________
Expand the metaLUN in the device tree.
How many components exist in the metaLUN? __________________________
Expand the metaLUN components.
Which LUN(s) is/are listed under Component 0? _________________________
Which LUN(s) is/are listed under Component 1? _________________________
Examine the properties for each of these LUNs.
What happened to the LUN IDs?
Base LUN ______________
Expansion LUN 1 ______________
Expansion LUN 2 ______________
What happened to the ownership of the FLARE LUN that was assigned to SPB?
________________________________________________________________
Examine the SPA private LUNs.
Are the component FLARE LUNs for this metaLUN listed here? _____________
Right-click the Component 0 label and select Add LUNs.
What happened? _________________________________________________
Right-click the Component 1 label and select Add LUNs. Click Yes in the
Confirmation box then click Next on the Wizard Introduction page.
Select a 2GB RAID 5 LUN (from either SP) and click Next.
Select Maximum Capacity and click Next.
Read the Summary screen to verify selections and click Next.
What happened to Component 1? ____________________________________
Right-click the metaLUN label and select Expand from the menu.
Click Next to proceed.
Select Stripe Expansion and click Next.
Click Yes in the Confirmation box.
Select two of the 2GB RAID 5 LUNs from the displayed list and click Next.
Select Current Capacity and click Next.
Read the Summary screen and click Finish.
Examine the results in the Navisphere Manager device tree. Is this what you
expected to happen for a metaLUN originally created as a Concatenated
Expansion? _______________________________
What does this tell you about the internal structure of a component?
_______________________________________________________________
Right-click the metaLUN and select Destroy. Read the Confirmation box.
If the customer had production data on the metaLUN would this action be wise at
this moment? __________________________
Click Yes to confirm the destruction.
Using Navisphere Manager View the LUNs owned by both Storage Processors.
Were the component LUNs returned to the owning SPs? ________

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If not, what happened to them? ____________________________

Striped Expansion
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Rebind the LUNs that were used in the Concatenated Expansion

exercise.
Select a 2GB RAID 5 LUN on SPA, right-click and select Expand from the menu.
Click Next then select Stripe Expansion and click Next again.
Are all the LUNs you built displayed? __________________________________
If, not, which LUNs are displayed and why______________________________
What conclusions can be drawn from this? _____________________________

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Select a 2GB RAID 5 LUN from SPA and one from SPB. Click Next.
Choose Maximum Capacity and click Next.
Change the metaLUN Name as before.
Set the Default Owner to SPA.
Set the Expansion Rate to Low.
Leave all other parameters at the default.
Click Next.
5. Review the Summary screen and click Finish then OK to close the message box.
6. View the properties of the just created metaLUN.
Is there any indication of the RAID type for the metaLUN? _________________
What is the LUN ID for the metaLUN? _________________________________
Was this ID previously used? ________________________________________
What is the size of the metaLUN? ____________________________________
7. Expand the metaLUN in the device tree. How many components are listed?
8. Examine the properties for the LUNs in the component(s).
What happened to the LUN IDs for these component LUNs? _______________
_______________________________________________________________
9. Right-click the metaLUN and select Expand from the menu then click Next .
10. Select Concatenate Expansion and click Next.
Select two RAID 1/0 1GB LUNs and click Next.
Select Maximum Capacity and click Next.
Read the Summary screen and click Finish.
11. Expand the metaLUN in the device tree.
How many components are listed? _________________________
Did the most recent expansion add FLARE LUNs to an existing
component or create a new component? _____________________
Did this differ from the metaLUN expansion performed in steps
15 - 17 in the previous section of this lab. ____________________
12. Right-click the metaLUN and select Destroy.
Read the Confirmation box.
Click Yes to confirm the destruction.
This concludes the metaLUN lab.
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