User's Manual

Contents
1 EVA4400 hardware...................................................................................9
Physical layout of the storage system...........................................................................................9
M6412 disk enclosures............................................................................................................10
Enclosure layout.................................................................................................................10
I/O modules.....................................................................................................................11
I/O module status indicators..........................................................................................11
Fiber optic Fibre Channel cables..........................................................................................12
Copper Fibre Channel cables..............................................................................................12
Fibre Channel disk drives....................................................................................................13
Disk drive status indicators..............................................................................................13
Disk drive blank............................................................................................................13
Controller enclosures...............................................................................................................14
Management module.........................................................................................................15
Controller status indicators.......................................................................................................16
HSV300 controller status LEDs.............................................................................................17
Power supplies.......................................................................................................................17
Fan module...........................................................................................................................18
Battery module.......................................................................................................................18
HSV controller cabling............................................................................................................19
Storage system racks ..............................................................................................................19
Rack configurations............................................................................................................20
Power distribution–Modular PDUs.............................................................................................20
PDUs................................................................................................................................22
PDU A.........................................................................................................................22
PDU B.........................................................................................................................23
PDMs...............................................................................................................................23
Rack AC power distribution.................................................................................................24
Moving and stabilizing a rack..................................................................................................25
2 EVA4400 operation.................................................................................27
Best practices.........................................................................................................................27
Operating tips and information................................................................................................27
Reserving adequate free space............................................................................................27
Using FATA disk drives........................................................................................................27
Using solid state disk drives.................................................................................................27
EVA4400 port does not log in to the embedded switch...........................................................27
Emulex HBAs require unique zoning.....................................................................................27
Creating 16 TB or greater virtual disks in Windows 2008.......................................................27
Importing Windows dynamic disk volumes............................................................................28
Losing a path to a dynamic disk..........................................................................................28
Microsoft Windows 2003 MSCS cluster installation................................................................28
Array I/O can halt after a power cycle with an HP-UX host.....................................................28
Reboot can be required after EVA power cycle to resume access to LUNs..................................28
Host port connection limit on B-series 3200 and 3800 switches...............................................29
Failback preference setting for HSV controllers............................................................................30
Changing virtual disk failover/failback setting.......................................................................31
Implicit LUN transition.........................................................................................................32
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................32
Shutting down the storage system from HP P6000 Command View...........................................32
Shutting down the storage system from the array controller......................................................33
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................33
Connecting to the management module.....................................................................................34
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