HP Insight Management 7.1 Update 1 Support Matrix - 60 day

For more information on Windows and VMware support for iSCSI devices, see the following
websites:
• Windows: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
• VMware: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
iSCSI LAN/VLAN switches
HP recommends the following dedicated iSCSI LAN/VLANs for iSCSI implementations:
• HP ProCurve 6600 series (models with 10 GB option)
• HP ProCurve 8200zl series
• HP ProCurve 5400zl series
Storage options for virtual machine guests
VMware and Microsoft independently certify third-party devices with their respective operating
systems, hypervisors, and iSCSI initiators. Confirmation of device support by the hypervisor vendor
is a prerequisite to support in Insight Management.
Table 29 Storage options for VM guests
Integrity VM
1
Microsoft
Hyper-V VMVMware VM
Storage type
SAN-based (or
NPIV-based)
Storage
SLVM with
Serviceguard
NTFS
2
NFSRDM
VMFS
2
✓
4, 5
✓✓✓
3
✓Fibre Channel
✓
7
✓
9
✓
6, 7, 8
iSCSI
✓
10
✓
10
DAS
✓
10
✓
10
SAS
✓
10
NAS
1
Integrity VM virtual machine guests must have an HP-UX operating system type. Windows and Linux guests are not
supported. For more information about requirements and restrictions for Integrity VM hosts running on HP-UX, see Table 49
(page 50) .
2
All virtual disks of a given VM must reside on the same datastore as the VM itself.
3
Not supported by Matrix infrastructure orchestration.
4
Matrix infrastructure orchestration for Integrity VM does not support SAN-based or NPIV-based storage.
5
Only Qlogic 4 Gb and 8 Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters are supported with SAN-based or NPIV-based storage.
6
Matrix recovery management supports only 3PAR iSCSI storage systems (Table 28 (page 30)) as VM backing store. For
other iSCSI storage systems that Matrix Operating Environment supports, Matrix recovery management 7.1 provides a
user-defined storage adapter interface specification for integration. For more information, see HP Matrix Operating
Environment Recovery Management User Guide and also “iSCSI SAN” (page 32)
7
To use iSCSI, you must provide connectivity to a compatible iSCSI SAN. As with Fibre Channel storage, the storage
vendor generally certifies end-to-end support for an iSCSI storage device.
8
Supported by VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 and later.
9
Not supported by Matrix OE, including Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Matrix recovery management software.
10
Not supported by Matrix recovery management.
Matrix OE storage support
Matrix OE supports the use of virtual and physical logical servers. “Storage options for virtual
machine guests” (page 33) lists the virtual server storage options. Physical logical servers use
storage provisioned from the SAN for flexible movement.
Supported hardware storage products 33