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

General installation prerequisites
This section describes general installation prerequisites for P6000 Cluster Extension.
Environmental setup
Ensure that the following conditions are met before installing P6000 Cluster Extension Software:
• P6000 Continuous Access links (including extender hardware) are redundant and bidirectional.
• Alternate I/O paths between servers and the P6000/EVA storage system are set up.
• Cluster and client networks are redundant.
• Cluster nodes can communicate with each other (not required for Windows Server 2003).
• The latest supported software and firmware versions, fixes, FC adapter firmware, and driver versions
for your servers and P6000/EVA storage systems are installed.
• The cluster nodes in your zoning configuration each recognize their respective (local) P6000/EVA
array, but not the remote P6000/EVA array. Each management server recognizes both P6000/EVA
arrays and can recognize each other. Figure 1 on page 9 shows a zoning example.
Figure 1 Zoning example
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