Instruction Manual

3 Installing and upgrading EVA iSCSI
connectivity
This chapter contains information about the following topics:
• Verify your system requirements, page 41
• Verify your installation type and components, page 42
• EVA and EVA4400 iSCSI connectivity installation, page 43
• Rack mount the mpx100/100b, page 46
• Connect the mpx100/100b to an IP switch, page 47
• Start the mpx100/100b, page 48
• Set the mpx100/100b management port to use HP StorageWorks Command View EVA, page 48
To install your EVA iSCSI connectivity option, complete procedures in “Verify your system
requirements” on page 41 through “Set the mpx100/100b management port to use HP StorageWorks
Command View EVA” on page 48 in the order shown, depending upon your configuration.
Verifying your system requirements
Verify that your system has the hardware required for installing the HP StorageWorks EVA and
EVA4400 iSCSI connectivity options:
• Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2003, XP Professional, Apple Mac OS X, Linux Red
Hat or SUSE, Sun Solaris, VMware, or HP OpenVMS (mpx100 only) server
• Storage system: EVA4000/4100/4400/4400 with embedded switch/6x00/8x00 or
EVA3000/5000 storage system
• Connectivity: B-series, C-series, or M-series Fibre Channel switch for HP Command View EVA
connectivity
NOTE:
For configurations that use only direct connect mpx100/100b and direct connect Windows hosts,
HP supports HP Command View EVA connectivity without a Fibre Channel switch. See Figure
6 on page 25.
• Network and cables: A GbE IP Ethernet network and Cat 5e or Cat 6 network cables
• For the mpx100/100b-to-EVA fabric attach: a B-series, C-series, or M-series Fibre Channel switch,
SFPs, and optical Fibre Channel cables
The supported operating systems are specified in Table 6 on page 32. See “Operating system rules
and guidelines” on page 32 for detailed information about supported operating systems.
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