dataset-provision-member through dfm

SANJEEVROHILA · ‎2011-09-12

<dataset-provision-member>

<edit-lock-id>1309168682</edit-lock-id>

<provision-member-request-info>

<name>Lunabcdef</name>

<maximum-snapshot-space>10M</maximum-snapshot-space>

<maximum-data-size></maximum-data-size>

<dataset-export-info>

<dataset-lun-mapping-info>

<igroup-os-type>vmware</igroup-os-type>

<lun-mapping-initiators>

<lun-mapping-initiator>

<initiator-id>20:00:00:00:00:00:00:00</initiator-id>

</lun-mapping-initiator>

</lun-mapping-initiators>

</dataset-lun-mapping-info>

<dataset-export-protocol>fcp</dataset-export-protocol>

</dataset-export-info>

</provision-member-request-info>

</dataset-provision-member>

The above xml request for dataset-provision-member through dfm, the initiator id ia m ussing is a dummy one and has no iscsi as below

xxxxxxxxxxNetApp> fcp show initiator

Initiators connected on adapter 0d:

None connected.

Initiators connected on adapter 0b:

None connected.

there my query is that; will it provision a member in the dataset or not ?it should not but i m not sure !!

lovik_netapp · ‎2011-09-12

To my knowledge DFM will error out with "initiator is not logged in the storage system" and will destroy any volume/lun which was created as a part of provisioning the dataset.

Cheers.