HP P6000 Cluster Extension Software Installation Guide (5697-0987, June 2011)

Contents
1 Preparing to install P6000 Cluster Extension .......................................... 7
Ideal environment ....................................................................................................................... 7
Network communication requirements ........................................................................................... 7
Data backup requirements ........................................................................................................... 7
How P6000 Cluster Extension Software interacts with its environment ................................................ 8
Failover function ................................................................................................................... 8
How P6000 Cluster Extension utilizes vdisks ............................................................................ 8
How P6000 Cluster Extension stores information ...................................................................... 8
General installation prerequisites .................................................................................................. 9
Environmental setup .............................................................................................................. 9
Disk space and system memory requirements ......................................................................... 10
Required firmware and software ................................................................................................. 10
2 Installing P6000 Cluster Extension Software for Windows ..................... 11
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 11
Pre-installation procedures ......................................................................................................... 11
Checking the IP network setup and SAN configuration ............................................................ 12
Installing multipath software ................................................................................................. 12
Installing and configuring the JRE ......................................................................................... 12
Installing and configuring HP P6000/EVA SMI-S on all management servers ............................. 13
Configuring the HP P6000/EVA storage system ..................................................................... 13
Creating hosts ................................................................................................................... 13
Creating vdisks and adding a LUN presentation ..................................................................... 13
Creating DR groups ............................................................................................................ 14
Setting read-only mode and adding a LUN presentation to the destination vdisk ......................... 14
Installing MSCS on all nodes ............................................................................................... 15
Installing P6000 Cluster Extension Software for Windows .............................................................. 15
Upgrading P6000 Cluster Extension Software for Windows ........................................................... 19
Upgrading from P6000 Cluster Extension 2.01.00 or later (Windows Server 2003) ................... 19
Upgrading from P6000 Cluster Extension 2.01.00 or later (Windows Server 2008/2008 R2) ..... 21
Upgrading P6000 Cluster Extension with P6000 Command View upgrade ................................ 22
P6000 Cluster Extension maintenance ......................................................................................... 23
Modifying the P6000 Cluster Extension installation ................................................................. 23
Repairing the P6000 Cluster Extension installation .................................................................. 23
Removing P6000 Cluster Extension for Windows .................................................................... 24
Troubleshooting installation and maintenance problems ................................................................. 25
Registering the resource type and resource extension DLL manually ........................................... 28
Unregistering the resource type and resource extension DLL manually ........................................ 29
3 Installing P6000 Cluster Extension Software for Linux ............................ 31
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 31
Pre-installation procedures ......................................................................................................... 31
Checking the IP network setup and SAN configuration ............................................................ 32
Configuring multipath software ............................................................................................ 32
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