Purpose

This document describes the working principle and application scenarios of the SmartVirtualization feature and explains how to configure and manage this feature. SmartVirtualization is only supported for LUNs (block services).

Intended Audience

This document is intended for:

• Technical support engineers
• Maintenance engineers

Symbol Conventions

The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows.

Symbol	Description
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Change History

Changes between document issues are cumulative. The latest document issue contains all the changes in earlier issues.

Issue 13 (2018-08-30)

This issue is the 13th official release. The following sections are updated:

Optimized descriptions about section License Requirements and Compatible Products.

Issue 12 (2018-05-30)

This issue is the 12th official release. The following sections are updated:

Optimized some description.

Issue 11 (2018-02-05)

This issue is the 11th official release. The updates are as follow:

Optimized descriptions about section Impact and Restrictions.

Issue 10 (2017-11-30)

This issue is the tenth official release.

Optimized the configuration process for taking over third-party heterogeneous storage systems.

Issue 09 (2017-10-30)

This issue is the ninth official release.

Optimized descriptions about section Impact and Restrictions.

Added the description that iSCSI connections are not applicable to third-party heterogeneous storage systems.

Issue 08 (2017-07-10)

This issue is the eighth official release.

Optimized descriptions about section Impact and Restrictions.

Issue 07 (2017-05-10)

This issue is the seventh official release.

Added description of compatibility of Solaris 10 or later with SF DMP multipath software and VCS cluster software in the section of Compatibility Requirements for an Online Takeover.

Added description of compatibility with OceanStor V3 series storage systems in the section of Impact and Restrictions.

Issue 06 (2017-03-27)

This issue is the sixth official release.

Added the restrictions on configuring Huawei VIS6000 and VIS6000T storage systems to the section of Appendix Configuration Restrictions.

Issue 05 (2016-11-20)

This issue is the fifth official release. Information about V300R003C20 is added. The following lists the added and updated contents:

Added the information that no license is required if the heterogeneous storage system uses Huawei storage to the section of Configuration Process.

Issue 04 (2016-07-25)

This issue is the fourth official release, which incorporates the following changes:

Optimized the document structure.

Optimized the process description of online take-over configuration.

Modified restrictions on heterogeneous storage systems.

Issue 03 (2016-04-30)

This issue is the third official release, which incorporates the following changes:

Added FAQs related to the heterogeneous whitelist.

Optimized the description of configuration operations in configuration instances.

Modified the description of restrictions on heterogeneous storage systems.

Issue 02 (2015-12-10)

This issue is the second official release, which incorporates the following changes:

Modified the descriptions of the capacity occupied by eDevLUNs in a local storage system.

Modified the diagram for the multi-controller storage system network.

Modified the procedure for configuring centralized management of storage resources.

Modified the principles for configuring the write policy of eDevLUNs.

Added FAQs and troubleshooting related to heterogeneous storage systems.

Issue 01 (2015-08-30)

This issue is the first official release.