Guide to Collecting Information for Expansion of Huawei Storage Devices in European Regions
(OceanStor V3 is used as an example)
1 Overview
As storage capacity expansion is a high-risk operation and involves production services, Huawei recommends risk evaluation and solution support prior to capacity expansion in order to avoid service interruption due to mis-operation etc. This document describes how to collect the required information before the Huawei storage capacity expansion. Huawei technical support will evaluate the correctness of the expansion solution and current working status of the Huawei storage to ensure the success of capacity expansion. It is applicable to Europe as well as other countries and regions including Australia, Japan, Middle East, and North America.
Sending Information Collection Deliverables:
Scenario | Deliverable |
Expansion | A. Inspection results; B. logs of storage; C. Bill of Quantity for the expansion; D. SAS Network Topology Information |
2 Information Collection Methods
2.1 Preparing Tools and the Environment
2.1.1 Installing OceanStor Toolkit
Step 1 SmartKit consists of two type packages: tool package and function package. Click the following link to download the latest tool package.
http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/software/23226685-SW2000039477
Find the latest tool package SmartKit V2R5C00RC3_en.zip:
Step 2 Install the function package of SmartKit.
The following tools need to be installed: Information Collection, Inspection, Upgrade Evaluation Tool(G2), and InfoGrab. If the tools have been installed on your SmartKit, check whether they have new versions. If they have new versions, update the tools before using them.
Check the version:
If you have installed the Toolkit before, please install the SmartKit as below:
Choose the first one is OK, by default.
After you install the SmartKit,
Please confirm all of them are latest, check them as below:
Please install or update the newest function package of the “Inspection” Tool using ToolStore.
If your client is inaccessible to the Internet, download the function package using another client that is accessible to the internet, and then choose SmartKit > ToolStore > Import to import the function package.
The link is as below:
Before collecting information, ensure that the tools mentioned above are newest.
2.1.2 Adding the Storage Device to OceanStor Toolkit
Step 1 Type the management IP address (IP address of any controller) of the storage device as well as the user name admin and the corresponding password.
Step 2 Click OK.
As shown in the following figure, the storage device is successfully added to SmartKit.
2.2 Collecting Information About the Storage Device Using OceanStor Toolkit
2.2.1 Using Inspection to Collect Information About the Storage Device
Step 1 Confirm that the storage device has been successfully added.
Step 2 Start inspection.
Step 3 Specify the path for saving the inspection report.
2.2.2 Using Information Collection to Collect Logs of the Storage Device
Step 1 Confirm that the storage device has been successfully added.
Step 2 Start information collection.
Before starting information collection, click Settings in the Operation column on the Information Collection page. In the dialog box that is displayed, ensure that All log and Smart information are selected, and other default settings are retained.
2.2.3 Using Scenario-based Task to Expansion Evaluation of the Storage Device
Confirm that the storage device has been successfully added. And use Expansion Evaluation to finish the evaluation for the storage.
2.2.4 Feeding Back BOQ Information
Step 1 Bill of Quantity.
Step 2 If you do not have one, please contact our marketing staff for this information. Similar to the following:
2.2.5 Current Back-end Networking Diagram (SAS)
Step 1 Step 1 Based on the current back-end networking, describe the real networking topology of the back-end networking so that we can design the expansion networking.
The form is not limited, whether it is hand-painted or drawing, the only requirement is correctness.
such as:
2.3 Sending Information Collection Deliverables
Scenario | Deliverable |
Expansion | Inspection results; logs of storage; Bill of Quantity for the expansion; SAS Network Topology Information. The result of the expansion evaluation. |
