8x00 family of Disk Arrays 4.02.00 Installation and Reference Guide

Contents

1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P6x00 family of Disk

Arrays ................................................................................................. 7

Preparing for installation .............................................................................................................. 7

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM ....................................................................................................... 8

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system .............................................................. 8

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system .................................................................. 9

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................... 9

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................... 9

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system ............................................................. 10

Migrating HP MPIO EVA DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ....................... 10

Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................... 11

Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 12

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM .............................................................................................. 13

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................ 14

Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................. 14

Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 14

Setting up boot from SAN .......................................................................................................... 15

2 Support for load balancing in Failover Cluster Server environment for

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ............................ 17

Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 17

3 Support for load balancing in Microsoft Cluster Server environments for

Windows Server 2003 ........................................................................ 19

Enabling or disabling support for load balancing in MSCS environments ......................................... 19

Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 21

4 Load balancing ............................................................................... 23

Subset based load balancing ..................................................................................................... 23

Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 24

Adaptive Load Balance ............................................................................................................. 24

5 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO EVA DSM with the CLI

utility ................................................................................................. 27

hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 27

hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 28

hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 29

hpdsm set device policy ............................................................................................................. 30

hpdsm set device subset path ..................................................................................................... 30

hpdsm set device alb ................................................................................................................ 31

hpdsm set device path ............................................................................................................... 32

HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P6x00 family of Disk Arrays 4.02.00 installation and reference

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