HP 6Gb SAS Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class - Manual (Page 26)

selection, click the selected (blue) drive bay. (The bay status is automatically
updated, changing the color from blue to white).
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White=Selectable—Not yet assigned to a zone group and can be added
to this zone group.
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Blue=Selected—Selected in this session or already a member of this zone
group.
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Gray=Not Selectable—Assigned to a different zone group or attached to
storage enclosures without port-based zoning capabilities. Can not be
selected.
Helpful hints:
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To expand or contract the display for each storage enclosure, click the arrow at the far right
of the display.
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In addition to the mouse, the tab, arrow keys, and space bar can be used to select or clear
drives from the zone group.
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Information about the drive bay is shown in the display. For example, if the bay is populated
with a disk drive, information about the disk drive type is presented.
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Empty drive bays can be assigned to a zone group. This allows you to set up zone groups
for the storage enclosures and populate the bays with disk drives at a later time.
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A drive bay can belong to only one zone group.
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When selecting drive bays to be included in a zone group, consider your plans for creating
logical units (LUNs) from those drives.
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The following words may be displayed in the navigation tree by the zone group:
Pending Save—until the configuration is saved. ◦
◦ Unassigned—until a server device bay is granted access to the zone group.
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To assign this zone group to a server device bay, select the blade port in the navigation tree
and click Modify Zone Access. For more information, see
“Modify Zone Access task” (page 30)
Delete Zone Groups task
IMPORTANT: When using zoned SAS storage enclosures, before deleting a zone group, logical
units associated with disk drives in that zone group must be deleted. If a deleted zone group has
disk drives in bays that are configured as part of a logical unit, there may be I/O problems and
the controller may send error messages to the system logs about an illegal drive movement.
To delete one or more existing zone groups, select Zone Groups in the navigation tree, and then
click Delete Zone Groups. After a moment, all existing zone groups are displayed. Select the zone
groups to delete and then click OK.
After the zone group is deleted, the drive bays or ports associated with the deleted zone group
will be available for selection and inclusion in a different or new zone group.
Helpful hints
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To delete ALL zone groups, use the Clear Configuration option. For more information, see
“Clear Configuration task” (page 28) .
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This task becomes visible only after one or more zone groups have been created.
26 Tasks in the VSM Zoning tab