EMC Navisphere How to Create Raid

Group and LUN on CLARiiON

by Ramesh Natarajan on April 12, 2012
This article explains how to create new Raid Group and bind LUN using Navisphere GUI on
a EMC CLARiiON storage array.

1. Login to Navisphere
Login to Navisphere -> expand the tree, select RAID Groups -> Right mouse-click and
select Create Raid Group.

2. Create Raid Group

This will display the following Create RAID Group dialogue.

The following are the things to do on this screen:

RAID Group ID: This will be pre-populated with the next available RAID group
number. In this example, it says 27, as there were 26 RAID groups previously
created. Also, note that if youve deleted one of the RAID groups earlier (for example:
RG 6), and if that is available, it will display RG6 (instead of displaying the next
available RAID group number).

Number of disks: Use the drop down to select how many number of disks you like to
add to this disk group. In this example, Ive added 4 disks to this RAID group

RAID Type: Choose the RAID Type (RAID 5, RAID 10, etc.). In this example,
Ive chosen RAID 1/0. If you are not sure which one to choose, read about RAID
here.

Disk Selection: Click on Manual radio button, and click on Select

3. Select Disks for Raid Group

When you select disks manually, it will display the following Disk selection screen:

Select From: This drop-down list displays all the available cabinets in your EMC
Array. You can choose All Cabinets from this drop-down list, which will display all
the available disks from all the cabinets. Or, you can choose a specific cabinet. In this
example, I choose Bus 0 Enclosure 2, which displays all the available disks from
this particular cabinet on the left side of the screen.

Select Disks: From the Available disks pane, select the number of disks that youve
specified in the previous step. In this example, I choose 4 disks. Click on the right
arrow button, which will move these selected disks to the Selected Disks section.

Click OK, which will take you back to the Create Raid Group screen, and click
Ok on that screen, to create the new RAID Group.

4. Create LUN (Bind LUN)

Once the RAID Group is created, there will not be any LUN as shown below. It will just be
an empty RAID group.

To create a LUN, select the newly created RAID Group (in this example, RAID Group 27),
right mouse-click, and select Bind LUN, which will display the following BIND LUN
screen.

The following are the things to do on this screen:

RAID Type: This will be prepopulated with whatever RAID Type you choose while
creating the RAID Group. However you can change this if you like at this time. In this
example, we are creating a LUN with RAID 1/0.

RAID Group for new LUN: This will be pre-populated with the RAID group number
you choose above. Make sure it displays the appropriate RAID Group number where
you like to create the LUN. In this example, I like to create a new LUN on the newly
created RAID Group number 27.

Free Capacity: This indicates the RAW space available on this RAID group depending
on the number of disks chosen.

Largest Contiguous free space: This will be less than the Free Capacity, depending
on the type of RAID chosen. Since Im using RAID 1/0, Ill be getting only half of
the space as usable. In this example, the RAW disk space available for this RG is
266G, but Im getting only 133G of usable space because of the RAID type chosen.

LUN ID: This will be auto populated with the next available LUN number.

Default Owner: This will be automatically selected to either SP A or SP B,

depending on what make sense for the Navisphere. If this LUN was assigned to SP
A, the next one will be assigned to SP B.

LUN Size: Click on this drop-down list and choose MAX if you are planning to
create only one LUN on this RAID group, and planning to assign all the available
space to this one LUN. If you are planning to create multiple LUNs on this single
RAID group, then enter the appropriate size that you like to assign to this LUN.

Leave all other values in the default selection (for example: Enable read cache, enable
write cache, enable auto assign, rebuild priority, verify priority, Alignment offset, No
initial verify, etc.)

5. Assign LUN to Storage Group

Once the LUN is created assign it to the storage group.
From the Navisphere main tree, expand to Storage Groups, select an existing storage group
(or, you can create a new storage group and assing a host/server to it) -> Right mouse-click
and select properties -> Click on the LUN tab, which will display the following window:

Show LUNs: In this drop-down list, select Not in other storage groups, which will
display all the LUNs that are not assigned to any other storage groups.

Select LUN: This will display the LUN 27 under SP A (the newly created LUN
above), as not selected. Click on the check-box in front of it to select this LUN. This
will add this new LUN to the Selected LUNs section window at the bottom.

Host ID: You also need to assign a host id to this selected LUN. Select this particular
LUN (LUN 27) on the Selected LUN section, click on the Host Id cell for this
LUN, which will display a drop-down list, select the next available host id from this
drop-down list.

Reboot the server (or re-scan your SCSI), and execute powermt display command, which
should display the newly created LUN on your server.