HP 3PAR Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide

Contents

1 HP 3PAR OS Upgrade Overview..................................................................4

Audience.................................................................................................................................4

Supported Upgrade Types.........................................................................................................5

2 Guidelines for Online Upgrades...................................................................6

Planning Information for Online HP 3PAR OS Upgrades................................................................6

General Guidelines...................................................................................................................6

Host Configuration Guidelines....................................................................................................7

HP 3PAR Persistent Ports Feature.............................................................................................9

HP 3PAR OS Persona Changes..............................................................................................9

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Configuration Guidelines..................................................................13

HP 3PAR Remote Copy Guidelines............................................................................................14

Remote Versus Local Methods for an HP 3PAR OS Upgrade.........................................................15

Remote HP 3PAR OS Upgrades...........................................................................................15

Local HP 3PAR OS Upgrades..............................................................................................16

Start-and-Stop Quorum Witness Steps........................................................................................16

3 Red Hat, Oracle, Linux, and SUSE Guidelines..............................................18

4 Sun/Solaris Configuration Guidelines.........................................................19

I/O Path Monitoring for Solaris................................................................................................19

5 Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation DMP (VxDMP) and Online Upgrade......22

Changing the Veritas DMP Link Restore Interval...........................................................................22

Restoring the Veritas DMP Link Restore Interval............................................................................23

6 VMware ESX Server Guidelines..................................................................24

7 Windows Server OS Guidelines.................................................................25

Rebooting After an Upgrade....................................................................................................25

Microsoft MPIO Driver on Windows Server 2008.......................................................................26

Microsoft Hotfixes...................................................................................................................27

HP Peer Motion Manager........................................................................................................27

8 AIX Guidelines.........................................................................................29

9 HP-UX Guidelines.....................................................................................30

Issue.....................................................................................................................................31

Resolution..............................................................................................................................31

10 Support and Other Resources...................................................................33

Contacting HP........................................................................................................................33

HP 3PAR documentation..........................................................................................................33

Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................36

HP 3PAR branding information.................................................................................................36

11 Documentation feedback..........................................................................37

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