When working with SHC-OSD, it is necessary to know whether the units were generated in BS2000 or not. Usually, you work with generated units. The SHC-OSD functions are available without restriction for generated units.
With SHC-OSD you can address and administer a logical volume directly using the serial number of the storage system and the internal number of the logical volume in the storage system (internal device number). With the internal number of the logical volume each unit can be identified uniquely and independently of any server-specific names, such as different MNs on different servers for the same unit in the storage system.
This functionality is available for generated as well as for non-generated units on the local server. This means that it is also possible to display non-generated units and to use the control functions for local and remote replication for non-generated units.
Partitioning
Partitioning is not supported by BS2000.
With various other operating systems, it is possible to partition a logical volume and thus divide it into several independent file systems.
Problems may occur if storage volumes are operated using the serial number and the volume number as the complete logical volumes is processed.