8x00 family of Disk Arrays 3.02.00 (AA-RW7SL-TE, March 2009)

Contents

About this guide ................................................................................... 7

Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 7

Related documentation ................................................................................................................ 7

Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................... 7

HP technical support ................................................................................................................... 8

HP-authorized reseller .................................................................................................................. 9

Helpful websites ......................................................................................................................... 9

1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 family

of Disk Arrays ..................................................................................... 11

Preparing for installation ............................................................................................................ 11

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM ..................................................................................................... 12

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system ............................................................ 12

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system ................................................................ 13

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................. 13

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system ......................................................... 13

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system ............................................................. 14

Migrating HP MPIO EVA DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ....................... 14

Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................... 15

Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 16

Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM .............................................................................................. 17

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................ 18

Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................. 18

Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 18

Setting up boot from SAN .......................................................................................................... 19

2 Support for load balancing in Failover Cluster Server environment for

Windows Server 2008 ........................................................................ 21

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

3 Support for load balancing in Microsoft Cluster Server environments for

Windows Server 2003 ........................................................................ 23

Enabling support for load balancing in MSCS environments ........................................................... 23

Disabling support for load balancing in MSCS environments .......................................................... 24

Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 25

4 Load balancing ............................................................................... 27

Subset based load balancing .....................................................................................................27

Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 28

Adaptive Load Balance ............................................................................................................. 28

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