HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform 3.0.4 Release Notes (5697-0763, November 2010)

• The Windows system disk of the VSM server and the VSM setup virtual disk must not be converted
into a dynamic disk.
• You should not upgrade (or accept automatic updates for) operating-system software components
such as iSCSI initiators and QLogic HBA drivers. Only explicit VSM components are approved
for use. Operating system security updates are supported.
• To change the computer name of a VSM server, you must disconnect it from the SAN, delete it
from the configuration in the VSM GUI, rename the server, and reboot. Once rebooted, connect
it to the SAN. Do not change the computer name if only one VSM is connected to the SAN.
• Do not initiate an iSCSI connection for a VSM server to itself. Loopback is not supported.
• Do not establish an iSCSI connection between two VSM servers in the same domain.
• Only one NIC should be used as the iSCSI initiator/target on a VSM server. The other NIC is used
for management. Therefore, the iSCSI NIC could be in a private Ethernet domain used exclusively
for an SVSP domain-to-domain replication (remote mirroring).
• The VSM server is intended to be used only for VSM-related tasks. No other applications should
be installed on the server except as configured during installation (for example, Symantec AntiVirus,
Symantec Ghost, PuTTYtel, and so on).
• Do not overload the array that contains the setup virtual disks. An overloaded array is one where
the average write response time for the VSM setup virtual disk exceeds 20 msec.
• The default threshold for capacity alerts is 10%. When setting capacity alerts, you should set the
alerts slightly higher (for example, add 5%) to ensure that the storage administrator is notified in
time.
• Once a synchronous mirror is created, you cannot change the LU number of a synchronous mirror
group.
• You cannot add synchronous mirroring to a member of an asynchronous mirror group due to the
existence of the asynchronous PiTs. However, you can first create a synchronous mirror and then
add the asynchronous mirror group to it.
• It is recommended that the quorum disk always be in automatic failover (Continue on fail) mode.
• To configure EMC Symmetrix arrays to work with SVSP, turn on the following flags for each EMC
Symmetrix controller:
• Common Serial Number (C)
• SCSI_3 (SC3)
• Host SCSI Compliance 2007 (OS2007)
• SPC-2 Compliance (SPC-2)
Operational best practices
• Should you want to delete, remove, or undo an operation to an SVSP entity, it is best if you reverse
the processes that were used to get you to that operational stage. Additional details are in the HP
StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Administrator Guide.
For example, you have I/O to a snapshot created from a PiT that was created from a virtual disk
(that is online to a different application). Assume the following steps were performed to get to this
stage:
1. A virtual disk is created from a pool.
2. The virtual disk is presented to a host.
3. The first I/O stream is initiated to the virtual disk.
4. A PiT is created from the virtual disk.
5. A snapshot is created from the PiT.
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