HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software Installation Guide (5697-2048, June 2012)

Contents
1 Preparing to install HP 3PAR Cluster Extension................................................5
Ideal environment.....................................................................................................................5
Network communication requirements.........................................................................................5
Storage replication link requirements...........................................................................................5
Server cluster infrastructure requirements......................................................................................5
How HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software interacts with its environment...........................................5
Failover function..................................................................................................................6
How HP 3PAR Cluster Extension utilizes virtual volumes.............................................................6
How HP 3PAR Cluster Extension stores information...................................................................6
General installation prerequisites................................................................................................6
Disk space and system memory requirements...........................................................................7
Required firmware and software.................................................................................................7
2 Installing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software for Windows.............................8
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................8
Pre-installation procedures.........................................................................................................8
Checking the IP network setup and SAN configuration..............................................................8
Installing the multipath software.............................................................................................9
Installing and configuring the JRE...........................................................................................9
Installing HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI).....................................................................9
Configuring the HP 3PAR storage system.................................................................................9
Creating hosts and setting host persona..................................................................................9
Creating virtual volumes and adding a LUN presentation........................................................10
Creating Remote Copy volume groups..................................................................................10
LUN presentation to the secondary virtual volume(s)...............................................................10
Installing MSCS on all nodes...............................................................................................10
Installing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software for Windows.........................................................11
HP 3PAR Cluster Extension maintenance....................................................................................13
Modifying the 3PAR Cluster Extension installation...................................................................13
Repairing the 3PAR Cluster Extension installation....................................................................14
Removing 3PAR Cluster Extension for Windows......................................................................15
Troubleshooting installation and maintenance problems...............................................................15
Registering the resource type and resource extension DLL manually...............................................18
Unregistering the resource type and resource extension DLL manually............................................19
3 Installing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software for Linux..................................20
Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................20
Pre-installation procedures ......................................................................................................21
Checking the IP network setup and SAN configuration............................................................22
Configuring native multipath software...................................................................................22
Configuring the HP 3PAR storage system...............................................................................22
Creating hosts and setting host persona................................................................................22
Creating virtual volumes and adding a LUN presentation........................................................23
Creating Remote Copy volume groups..................................................................................23
LUN presentation to the secondary virtual volume(s)...............................................................23
Configuring LVM................................................................................................................23
Installing and configuring the cluster software........................................................................24
Installing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software for Linux................................................................24
Removing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software for Linux...............................................................24
4 Licensing.................................................................................................25
Retrieving a license key...........................................................................................................25
Using AutoPass to retrieve permanent license keys.......................................................................25
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