
Important: The DS6000 FC ports used by OpenVMS hosts must not be accessed by any other operating system, not even accidentally. The OpenVMS hosts have to be defined for access to these ports only, and it must be ensured that no foreign HBA (without definition as an OpenVMS host) is seen by these ports. Conversely, an OpenVMS host must have access only to the DS6000 ports configured for OpenVMS compatibility.
You must dedicate storage ports for only the OpenVMS host type. Multiple OpenVMS systems can access the same port. Appropriate zoning must be enforced from the beginning. Wrong access to storage ports used by OpenVMS hosts may clear the
Volume configuration
OpenVMS Fibre Channel devices have device names according to the schema:
$1$DGA<n>
with the following elements:
The first portion $1$ of the device name is the allocation class (a decimal number in the range
The following two letters encode the drivers where the first letter denotes the device class (D = disks, M = magnetic tapes) and the second letter the device type (K = SCSI, G = Fibre Channel). So all Fibre Channel disk names contain the code DG.
The third letter denotes the adapter channel (from range A to Z). Fibre Channel devices always have the channel identifier A.
The number <n> is the
OpenVMS does not identify a Fibre Channel disk by its path or SCSI target/LUN like other operating systems. It relies on the UDID. Although OpenVMS uses the WWID to control all FC paths to a disk, a Fibre Channel disk which does not provide this additional UDID cannot be recognized by the operating system.
In the DS6000, the volume name acts as the UDID for OpenVMS hosts. If the character string of the volume name evaluates to an integer in the range
The DS management utilities do not enforce UDID rules. They accept incorrect values that are not valid for OpenVMS. It is possible to assign the same UDID value to multiple DS6000 volumes. However, because the UDID is in fact the device ID seen by the operating system, several consistency rules have to be fulfilled. These rules are described in detail in the OpenVMS operating system documentation (see HP Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations):
Every FC volume must have a UDID that is unique throughout the OpenVMS cluster that accesses the volume. The same UDID may be used in a different cluster or for different
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