Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC Manuale Utente

SANnet II 200 FC, SATA, and SATA SE Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • March 2005

H.3

Identifying the Device on Which You Will 
Create a Logical Volume

1. Display all the defined disk devices on your system.

A list of defined disk devices is displayed along with information about those devices.

2. Identify the name of the device on which you want to create a logical volume, for 

example, hdisk7.

3. Verify that the disk you’ve identified is the one you want.

Detailed information about the device you specified is displayed.

4. Examine the manufacturer information and model information to make sure you have 

specified the device you want.

H.4

Using SMIT to Enable an AIX Host to 
Recognize New LUNs

The simplest way to configure your IBM AIX host to use your array is to use the 
System Management Interface Tool (SMIT). SMIT can be used with a graphical user 
interface (GUI) if your host is configured with a graphics card or if you want to export 
your display to an X-Windows terminal. SMIT can also be used with an ASCII 
interface that can be accessed through an ASCII terminal or console window on 
another system on the network. Because the ASCII interface is available on all 
systems, it is used as an example in the remainder of this appendix, but either interface 
can be used to perform the procedures described here. In addition, the same operations 
can be performed directly from the command line using standard AIX system 
administration commands.

Use the Enter key when you have finished filling out a screen to advance to the 

next screen. Use the keystroke combinations shown on the screen to move back to 
previous screens.

1. Start SMIT using the ASCII interface to display the System Management screen.

# lsdev -Cc disk

# lscfg -v -l device-name

# smit -a