installation and reference guide HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for SAN Virtualization Services Platform 3.01.00 (5697-8031, March 2009)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................................... 7
Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 7
Related documentation ................................................................................................................ 7
Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................... 7
HP technical support ................................................................................................................... 8
Subscription service .................................................................................................................... 8
HP websites ............................................................................................................................... 9
1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for SAN Virtualization Services
Platform ............................................................................................. 11
Preparing for installation ............................................................................................................ 11
Installing HP MPIO SVSP DSM .................................................................................................... 12
Installing HP MPIO SVSP DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................... 12
Installing HP MPIO SVSP DSM on a clustered system ............................................................... 13
Upgrading HP MPIO SVSP DSM ................................................................................................. 13
Upgrading HP MPIO SVSP DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................ 14
Upgrading HP MPIO SVSP DSM on a clustered system ............................................................ 14
Migrating HP MPIO SVSP DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ..................... 15
Removing HP MPIO SVSP DSM .................................................................................................. 15
Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 16
Installing HP MPIO SVSP DSM ............................................................................................. 17
Upgrading HP MPIO SVSP DSM .......................................................................................... 18
Removing HP MPIO SVSP DSM ............................................................................................ 18
Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 18
Setting up boot from SAN .......................................................................................................... 19
2 Support for load balancing in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover
Cluster/Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server ..................................... 21
Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 21
3 Load balancing ............................................................................... 23
4 Managing storage devices using the HP MPIO SVSP DSM with the CLI
utility ................................................................................................. 25
hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 25
hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 26
hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 28
hpdsm set device policy ............................................................................................................. 28
hpdsm set device path ............................................................................................................... 29
hpdsm cleanup device ............................................................................................................... 30
hpdsm notify ............................................................................................................................ 30
hpdsm help .............................................................................................................................. 32
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