6.2 HP IBRIX 9300/9320 Storage Administrator Guide (AW549-96049, December 2012)

Contents
1 Product description...................................................................................10
9300 Storage Gateway .........................................................................................................10
9320 Storage System..............................................................................................................10
System Components................................................................................................................10
HP IBRIX software features.......................................................................................................10
High availability and redundancy.............................................................................................11
2 Getting started.........................................................................................12
Setting up the system...............................................................................................................12
Installation steps................................................................................................................12
Additional configuration steps.............................................................................................12
Management interfaces...........................................................................................................13
Using the GUI...................................................................................................................14
Customizing the GUI..........................................................................................................17
Adding user accounts for GUI access...................................................................................17
Using the CLI.....................................................................................................................18
Starting the array management software...............................................................................18
9000 client interfaces.........................................................................................................18
IBRIX software manpages........................................................................................................19
Changing passwords..............................................................................................................19
Configuring ports for a firewall.................................................................................................19
Configuring NTP servers..........................................................................................................20
Configuring HP Insight Remote Support on IBRIX 9000 systems.....................................................21
Configuring the IBRIX cluster for Insight Remote Support..........................................................22
Configuring Insight Remote Support for HP SIM 7.1 and IRS 5.7...............................................23
Configuring Insight Remote Support for HP SIM 6.3 and IRS 5.6..............................................26
Testing the Insight Remote Support configuration....................................................................29
Updating the Phone Home configuration...............................................................................29
Disabling Phone Home.......................................................................................................29
Troubleshooting Insight Remote Support................................................................................29
3 Configuring virtual interfaces for client access..............................................31
Network and VIF guidelines.....................................................................................................31
Creating a bonded VIF............................................................................................................32
Configuring backup servers......................................................................................................32
Configuring NIC failover.........................................................................................................32
Configuring automated failover................................................................................................33
Example configuration.............................................................................................................33
Specifying VIFs in the client configuration...................................................................................33
Configuring VLAN tagging......................................................................................................34
Configuring link state monitoring for iSCSI network interfaces.......................................................34
4 Configuring failover..................................................................................36
Agile management consoles....................................................................................................36
Agile Fusion Manager modes..............................................................................................36
Viewing information about Fusion Managers.........................................................................36
Agile Fusion Manager and failover......................................................................................36
Configuring High Availability on the cluster................................................................................37
What happens during a failover..........................................................................................38
Configuring automated failover with the HA Wizard...............................................................38
Configuring automated failover manually..............................................................................43
Changing the HA configuration manually.........................................................................45
Failing a server over manually.............................................................................................45
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