Configuration settings for IBM® DS5000, IBM DS4000, and IBM DS3000 systems

The system configuration interface provides configuration settings and options that can be used with the Lenovo Storage V series clustered system.

These settings and options can have the following scope:
  • System
  • Logical unit (LU)
    • The Lenovo Storage V series system attempts to follow preferred ownership that is specified by the system. You can specify which controller (A or B) is used to perform I/O operations to a given LU. If the Lenovo Storage V series system can see the ports of the preferred controller and no error conditions exist, the Lenovo Storage V series system accesses that LU through one of the ports on that controller. Under error conditions, the ownership is ignored.
    • You must enable the following options on any LUs that are mapped to the Lenovo Storage V series system:
      • read caching
      • write caching
      • write cache mirroring
    • You must not have caching without batteries that are enabled.