Managing Shared Disks

Displaying and modifying information about Virtual Shared Disk nodes

To display information about virtual shared disk nodes, whether server nodes or clients, do the following:

1. Click on the node in the Nodes pane
2. Click on the Properties notebook icon in the tool bar or click on Actions>View and Modify Properties...

The IBM VSD Node notebook shows the options set in the SDR for this node. The notebook contains pages with the following categories of information:

• Node Status

  This page shows:

  • Power LED
  • Host responds
  • Controller responds
  • Switch responds
  • CPU's online
  • Key switch position (normal, secure, service)
  • Environment LED
  • TTY open
  • Node failure
  • 3 Digit Display

  It also has the following action buttons:

  • Power On... or Power Off...
  • Fence... or Unfence...
  • Open TTY...
  • Network Boot...
• Configuration

  This page has information about the node, its frame, host names, IP address, system partition, PSSP level, processor, slot, and switch.

• VSD Status

  This has counts of active, suspended and stopped virtual shared disks. It also has the IBM RVSD subsystem status. The values in this page will be unknown (question marks) until at least one virtual shared disk is configured on the node.

• VSD Node Attributes

  This page shows and lets you change attributes related to the virtual shared disks on the node.

• Configured VSDs and HSDs

  This page has two panes to show what is configured on the node identified in the notebook title bar. One shows virtual shared disk names, states, the primary server node, and other information. The other shows the hashed shared disk names.

• VSD Node Statistics

  This page shows the statistics returned by the commands statvsd and vsdsklst.

• HSD Node Statistics

  This page shows the statistics returned by the commands ctlhsd and hsdatalst.

• All Dynamic Resource Variables

  This page lists the variable names and values.

• Monitored Conditions

  If you set up conditions to be monitored, this page shows what is currently being monitored and the state of each condition.

See the online help for detailed descriptions.

You can use the vsdatalst, statvsd, lsvsd, or ctlvsd commands or SMIT to get some of the same information.