Hitachi Storage Navigator Download
Silvia Habicht
HI please,
Can you guide how to install the Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular controller software in a lab.
I am working on emc clariion and dont have any idea and my company is ordered the hitachi storage.
so i need to practice or else i can loose my job.
so please guide.
how to install the software in a lab.
will be really thankfull to you.
thanks.
Storage Navigator or Element Manager is a webserver that allows you to perform day-to-day activities on a VSP. You will hear the terms Storage Navigator and Storage Navigator 2. The difference is that Storage Navigator is the software that comes with enterprise class arrays (VSP, USP, etc) while Storage Navigator 2 is the software that comes with modular class arrays (HUS,etc). Hitachi Storage Navigator provides a unified GUI for managing and optimizing the VSP storage system. You access the system in Storage Navigator from any computer with a web browser. Besides the GUI, Storage Navigator provides a CLI to allow scheduling of storage system events.
To access the GUI you open your browser and point it to the ip of the SVP (storage processor - black box that comes with your array in the cabinet) given by you by the HDS technician. The second way to open it is to use HCS (hicommand suite) and right click on the array and select Element Manager. There is no difference between the terms element manager and storage navigator from a admin perspective, those terms are synonyms.
Remember that HCS is actually an application that holds it's own database regarding hosts, what they see, what type they are and where they are allocated. However, Strorage Navigator sits more closely to the hardware and admins have the option to perform activities using Storage Navigator as well as Device Manager. The trouble with that is that any changes that are being performed in SN they are not "pushed" into device manager (hitachi command suite).
As a result, storage admins should Refresh the storage arrays defined under the Command Suite before performing any tasks especially if they believe that someone else might be touching Storage Navigator as well. The refresh operation is nothing more then a pull where HCS will read the config from the Storage Navigator and correct any missing information in it's own database. A
The refresh is pretty simple, after you login to HCS you need to expand your arrays under All Storage Systems, then Click on the array you want to refresh and wait for the screen to load. Once summary is loaded on the right pane you right click the storage name and select "Refresh Storage System".