Installation and Reference Guide HP StorageWorks Secure Path 3.0F Service Pack 4 for HP-UX 11i v1.0 and 11i v2.0 (5697-8001, March 2009)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................................... 9
Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9
Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 9
Related documentation .............................................................................................................. 10
Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................. 10
HP technical support ................................................................................................................. 10
Subscription service .................................................................................................................. 11
HP websites ............................................................................................................................. 11
Documentation feedback ........................................................................................................... 11
1 Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays ............................................ 13
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 13
Features ................................................................................................................................... 14
Software components ................................................................................................................ 15
Drivers .............................................................................................................................. 15
Agent ............................................................................................................................... 16
Management tools ............................................................................................................. 16
Controller ownership ........................................................................................................... 16
Path definition .................................................................................................................... 17
Secure Path operation ............................................................................................................... 17
Failback options ................................................................................................................. 18
Load balancing ..................................................................................................................18
Path verification ................................................................................................................. 18
Path management behavior ........................................................................................... 19
Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays hardware setup ............................................................... 19
Hardware setup overview .................................................................................................... 19
Installing a new Secure Path configuration ............................................................................. 20
Configuring switches ........................................................................................................... 21
Configuring the HSG80-based StorageWorks array ................................................................ 21
Configuring optional HSG80-based array features ................................................................. 23
Setting up additional SCSI-2 LUNs ................................................................................. 24
Setting a preferred unit to a controller ............................................................................. 25
Using SCSI-3 ............................................................................................................... 26
Managing the command console LUN in SCSI-2 mode ..................................................... 26
Configuring the HSV100/110–based StorageWorks array ...................................................... 27
System configuration ........................................................................................................... 27
Configuring SCSI-3 for HSG80-based systems ........................................................................ 29
What to do if ioscan does not see all paths to the array .......................................................... 30
Installing Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays ........................................................................ 32
Installing Secure Path ..........................................................................................................32
Installing Secure Path on a SAN boot device .......................................................................... 34
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................ 34
Installation steps .......................................................................................................... 34
Limitations ................................................................................................................... 35
Managing Secure Path for Active-Passive disk arrays ..................................................................... 35
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