HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 4.01.00 installation and reference guide (AA-RVJ6L-TE, September 2010)

Contents
1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays ...... 7
Preparing for installation .............................................................................................................. 7
Installing HP MPIO XP DSM ......................................................................................................... 8
Installing HP MPIO XP DSM on a stand-alone system ................................................................ 8
Installing HP MPIO XP DSM on a clustered system .................................................................... 9
Upgrading HP MPIO XP DSM ...................................................................................................... 9
Upgrading HP MPIO XP DSM on a stand-alone system .............................................................. 9
Upgrading HP MPIO XP DSM on a clustered system ............................................................... 10
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO XP DSM .......................................................................... 10
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO XP DSM on a stand-alone system ................................. 11
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO XP DSM on a clustered system ..................................... 11
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO XP DSM on systems that boot from SAN ........................ 12
Migrating from HP MPIO Basic Failover to HP MPIO XP DSM ......................................................... 12
Migrating HP MPIO XP DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ......................... 12
Removing HP MPIO XP DSM ...................................................................................................... 13
Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 14
Installing HP MPIO XP DSM ................................................................................................. 15
Upgrading HP MPIO XP DSM .............................................................................................. 16
Removing HP MPIO XP DSM ................................................................................................ 16
Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 16
Setting up boot from SAN .......................................................................................................... 17
2 Support for load balancing in Failover Cluster Server environment for
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ............................ 19
Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 19
3 Load balancing ............................................................................... 21
Subset based load balancing ..................................................................................................... 21
Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 22
4 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO XP DSM with the CLI
utility ................................................................................................. 23
hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 23
hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 24
hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 25
hpdsm set device policy ............................................................................................................. 25
hpdsm set device subset path ..................................................................................................... 26
hpdsm set device path ............................................................................................................... 27
hpdsm cleanup device ............................................................................................................... 27
hpdsm notify ............................................................................................................................ 28
hpdsm help .............................................................................................................................. 30
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