HP 3PAR Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide

To turn maintenance mode on or off for each of the cluster HP 3PAR disks, start the Failover Cluster
Manager application. Double-click the storage icon to open a Summary of Storage window. For
each of the clustered HP 3PAR data disks (not including any Quorum Witness disks), right-click
and select the More Actions option from the menu, and select either Turn on maintenance for the
disk or Turn off maintenance for the disk. For details, see Figure 1 (page 27):
NOTE: Does not apply to Windows Server 2008 systems running Veritas DMP driver.
Figure 1 Turning Maintenance Mode ON or OFF
Microsoft Hotfixes
Hotfixes may be required for the support of specific Windows functionality. For more information
about required hotfixes, see the Windows Server SPOCK configurations on the HP SPOCK website.
For Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using MS MPIO, Microsoft hotfixes
must be applied before upgrading the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage. For more information about
the required hotfixes, see the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SPOCK
configurations on the HP SPOCK website.
A hotfix, available from Microsoft, is required to support live storage migrations with Windows
Server 2012 using Cluster Shared Volumes on HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 and later. The hotfix must be
applied before upgrading the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage. For more information about the required
hotfix, see the Windows Server 2012 SPOCK configuration on the HP SPOCK website.
HP Peer Motion Manager
HP 3PAR Peer Motion Manager V1.1, V1.2 runs only on Microsoft Windows OSs that are supported
by CLI (Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows
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