User guide

becomes an ordinary virtual disk, you may present that virtual disk as you would any other
ordinary virtual disk.
HBA configuration
• Host 1 is a single path HBA host.
• Host 2 is a multiple HBA host with multi-pathing software.
See Figure 33 (page 120).
Risks
• Single path failure will result in loss of connection with the storage system.
• Single path failure may cause the server to reboot.
• Controller shutdown puts controller in a failed state that results in loss of data accessibility
and loss of host data that has not been written to storage.
NOTE: For additional risks, see “Windows Server failure scenarios” (page 132).
Limitations
• HP P6000 Continuous Access is not supported with single path configurations.
• Single path HBA server is not part of a cluster.
• Booting from the SAN is not supported on single path HBA servers.
Figure 33 Windows Server (32-bit) configuration
5 SAN switch 11 Network interconnection
6 SAN switch 22 Host 1
7 Controller A3 Host 2
8 Controller B4 Management server
120 Single Path Implementation