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HP OpenVMS SAN rules
This section describes the SAN rules for HP OpenVMS.
For current storage system support, see the SPOCK website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.
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Table 86 (page 193) describes the SAN configuration rules for HP OpenVMS. Table 87 (page 194)
describes support for HP OpenVMS storage, HBA, and multipathing coexistence.
Table 86 HP OpenVMS SAN configuration rules
OpenVMS SAN rules
Storage systems
1
All supported
• Zoning is required when OpenVMS is used in a heterogeneous SAN with other operating
systems.
• Supports OpenVMS Clusters.
• Supports active/active and active/passive failover mode. A multipathing driver is embedded
in the operating system.
• Supports boot from SAN. For more information, see “P6000/EVA SAN boot support” (page 229)
and “P9000/XP SAN boot support” (page 238).
• Supports multipathing high-availability configuration in multiple fabrics or in a single fabric with
zoned paths.
• For HP P6000 Continuous Access configuration information, see “HP P6000 Continuous Access
SAN integration” (page 228).
EVA4100
EVA4400
EVA6100
EVA6400
EVA8100
EVA8400
P6300 EVA
P6350 EVA
P6500 EVA
P6550 EVA
P2000 G3 FC
• Host name profile must be set to OpenVMS.
P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI
• OpenVMS uid must be set on all volumes mapped to a OpenVMS host.
MSA2000fc G2
• LUN ID 0 is not available for OpenVMS hosts.
(MSA2300fc)
SVSP
• SVSP 3.x is supported by OpenVMS IA54 8.3-1H1, host profile name must be set to OpenVMS.
• The number of hosts supported in a OpenVMS cluster is determined by the number of units times
the number of hosts times the number of paths < 4096.
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