User guide

Using FATA disk drives........................................................................................................34
Using solid state disk drives.................................................................................................34
QLogic HBA speed setting..................................................................................................34
EVA6400/8400 host port negotiates to incorrect speed.........................................................34
Creating 16 TB or greater virtual disks in Windows 2008.......................................................35
Importing Windows dynamic disk volumes............................................................................35
Losing a path to a dynamic disk..........................................................................................35
Microsoft Windows 2003 MSCS cluster installation................................................................35
Managing unused ports......................................................................................................35
Changing the host port connectivity......................................................................................35
Failback preference setting for HSV controllers............................................................................37
Changing virtual disk failover/failback setting.......................................................................39
Implicit LUN transition.........................................................................................................39
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................39
Shutting down the storage system.........................................................................................40
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................40
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................40
Adding disk drives to the storage system....................................................................................42
Creating disk groups..........................................................................................................42
Handling fiber optic cables......................................................................................................43
Using the OCP.......................................................................................................................43
Displaying the OCP menu tree.............................................................................................43
Displaying system information..............................................................................................44
Displaying versions system information..................................................................................45
Shutting down the system....................................................................................................45
Shutting the controller down................................................................................................46
Restarting the system..........................................................................................................46
Uninitializing the system......................................................................................................46
Password options...............................................................................................................47
Changing a password........................................................................................................47
Clearing a password..........................................................................................................47
4 Configuring application servers..................................................................48
Overview..............................................................................................................................48
Clustering..............................................................................................................................48
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................48
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................48
Testing connections to the EVA.................................................................................................49
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................49
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................49
Verifying virtual disk access from the host...................................................................................50
Configuring virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................50
HP-UX...................................................................................................................................50
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................50
Creating volume groups on a virtual disk using vgcreate.........................................................51
IBM AIX................................................................................................................................51
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................51
Adding hosts.....................................................................................................................52
Creating and presenting virtual disks....................................................................................52
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................52
Linux.....................................................................................................................................52
HBA drivers.......................................................................................................................52
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................53
OpenVMS.............................................................................................................................53
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