User's Manual

Connecting through a public network...................................................................................34
Connecting through a private network..................................................................................35
Changing the default operating mode.......................................................................................36
Accessing the HP P6000 Control Panel through HP P6000 Command View...................................37
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................37
Adding disk drives to the storage system....................................................................................39
Handling fiber optic cables......................................................................................................39
3 Configuring application servers..................................................................41
Overview..............................................................................................................................41
Clustering..............................................................................................................................41
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................41
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................41
Testing connections to the EVA.................................................................................................42
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................42
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................42
Verifying virtual disk access from the host...................................................................................43
Configuring virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................43
HP-UX...................................................................................................................................43
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................43
Creating volume groups on a virtual disk using vgcreate.........................................................44
IBM AIX................................................................................................................................45
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................45
Adding hosts.....................................................................................................................45
Creating and presenting virtual disks....................................................................................45
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................45
Linux.....................................................................................................................................46
HBA drivers.......................................................................................................................46
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................46
OpenVMS.............................................................................................................................46
Updating the AlphaServer console code, Integrity Server console code, and Fibre Channel FCA
firmware...........................................................................................................................46
Verifying the Fibre Channel adapter software installation........................................................46
Console LUN ID and OS unit ID...........................................................................................46
Adding OpenVMS hosts.....................................................................................................47
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................48
Configuring virtual disks from the OpenVMS host...................................................................49
Setting preferred paths.......................................................................................................49
Oracle Solaris........................................................................................................................49
Loading the operating system and software...........................................................................49
Configuring FCAs with the Oracle SAN driver stack...............................................................50
Configuring Emulex FCAs with the lpfc driver....................................................................50
Configuring QLogic FCAs with the qla2300 driver.............................................................52
Fabric setup and zoning.....................................................................................................53
Oracle StorEdge Traffic Manager (MPxIO)/Oracle Storage Multipathing..................................53
Configuring with Veritas Volume Manager............................................................................53
Configuring virtual disks from the host...................................................................................55
Verifying virtual disks from the host..................................................................................56
Labeling and partitioning the devices...............................................................................57
VMware................................................................................................................................58
Configuring the EVA4400 with VMware host servers..............................................................58
Configuring an ESX server ..................................................................................................58
Loading the FCA NVRAM..............................................................................................58
Setting the multipathing policy........................................................................................59
Specifying DiskMaxLUN.................................................................................................60
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