HP StorageWorks EVA Virtualization Adapter administrator guide (5697-0177, October 2009)
Table Of Contents
- EVA Virtualization Adapter administrator guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Overview of HP EVA Virtualization Adapter
- 2 Configuring SRM and the HP EVA disk array
- 3 Installing and removing HP EVA Virtualization Adapter
- 4 Failover and failback with SRM
- 5 Troubleshooting HP EVA Virtualization Adapter
- HP StorageWorks EVA disk arrays do not appear in Site Recovery Manager
- HP StorageWorks EVA Virtualization Adapter does not install
- Virtual machines do not start at recovery site after failover.
- Site Recovery Manager timeout failure in large array configurations
- Virtual machines do not start at recovery site during the test failover test.
- Error messages
- SRM log
- EVA log
- HP EVA Virtualizaton Error Messages
- 6 Reference
- Glossary
- Index
1 Overview of HP EVA Virtualization
Adapter
HP StorageWorks EVA Virtualization Adapter (HP EVA Virtualization Adapter) is installed on VMware
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) servers and enables communications between SRM and HP
StorageWorks Command View EVA (and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA for remote
replication).
HP EVA Virtualization Adapter performs the following functions:
• Discovers disk arrays
• Discovers replicated LUNs
• Fails over storage for testing (test a recovery plan)
• Fails over storage for recovery (execute a recovery plan)
For detailed operational information on HP StorageWorks Command View EVA, HP StorageWorks
Continuous Access EVA, HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA, or VMware Site Recovery Manager
see the sources cited in Related documentation.
Discovery of disk arrays and LUNs
During SRM configuration, HP EVA Virtualization Adapter is called to discover available arrays and
replicated LUNs.
The following information is discovered:
• Storage array IDs (WWN)
• Controller Port WWNs
• Physical host HBAs
• LUNs assigned to local (protected) physical and virtual hosts
• Remote recovery storage array ID
• Remote vdisk name
Remote vdisks are members of HP EVA data replication groups, and are replicated between protected
and recovery HP EVAs using HP Continuous Access EVA.
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