HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P9000 family of Disk Arrays 4.02.00 installation and reference guide (AA-RVJ6M-TE, October 2010)

Contents
1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P9000 family of Disk
Arrays ................................................................................................. 7
Preparing for installation .............................................................................................................. 7
Installing HP MPIO P9000 DSM ................................................................................................... 8
Installing HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a stand-alone system .......................................................... 8
Installing HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a clustered system .............................................................. 9
Upgrading HP MPIO XP DSM to HP MPIO P9000 DSM .................................................................. 9
Upgrading to HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a stand-alone system .................................................... 9
Upgrading to HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a clustered system ...................................................... 10
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO P9000 DSM .................................................................... 10
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a stand-alone system ........................... 11
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO P9000 DSM on a clustered system ............................... 11
Migrating from Secure Path to HP MPIO P9000 DSM on systems that boot from SAN ................. 12
Migrating from HP MPIO Basic Failover to HP MPIO P9000 DSM ................................................... 12
Migrating HP MPIO P9000 DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ................... 13
Removing HP MPIO P9000 DSM ................................................................................................ 13
Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 14
Installing HP MPIO P9000 DSM ........................................................................................... 15
Upgrading HP MPIO P9000 DSM ........................................................................................ 16
Removing HP MPIO P9000 DSM ......................................................................................... 16
Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 17
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 Support for load balancing in Microsoft Cluster Server environments for
Windows Server 2003 ........................................................................ 21
Enabling or disabling support for load balancing in MSCS environments ......................................... 21
Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 23
4 Load balancing ............................................................................... 25
Subset based load balancing ..................................................................................................... 25
Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 26
5 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO P9000 DSM with the CLI
utility ................................................................................................. 27
hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 27
hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 28
hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 29
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