Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RVJ6F-TE, March 2008)

Contents

Aboutthisguide .......................... 7

Intendedaudience...................................... 7

Relateddocumentation.................................... 7

Documentconventionsandsymbols .............................. 8

HPtechnicalsupport..................................... 9

HP-authorizedreseller .................................... 9

Helpfulwebsites ...................................... 9

1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays . . . 11

Preparingforinstallation ................................... 11

InstallingHPMPIOXPDSM................................. 12

InstallingHPMPIOXPDSMonstand-alonesystems..................... 12

Installing HP MPIO XP DSM on cluster conﬁgurations .................... 12

UpgradingHPMPIOXPDSM................................ 13

UpgradingHPMPIOXPDSMonstand-alonesystems.................... 13

UpgradingHPMPIOXPDSMonclusterconﬁgurations ................... 13

MigratingfromSecurePathtoHPMPIOXPDSM........................ 14

MigratingfromSecurePathtoHPMPIOXPDSMonstand-alonesystems............ 14

MigratingfromSecurePathtoHPMPIOXPDSMonclusterconﬁgurations ........... 15

MigratingfromSecurePathtoHPMPIOXPDSMonsystemsthatbootfromSAN ........ 15

MigratingfromHPMPIOBasicFailovertoHPMPIOXPDSM................... 16

Migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 with HP MPIO XP DSM . . . . . . . 16

RemovingHPMPIOXPDSM ................................ 16

Usingsilentinstallation................................... 17

InstallingHPMPIOXPDSM............................... 18

UpgradingHPMPIOXPDSM.............................. 19

RemovingHPMPIOXPDSM .............................. 19

Creating response ﬁlesforsilentmodeoperations ..................... 19

SettingupbootfromSAN.................................. 20

2SupportforloadbalancinginFailoverClusterServerenvironmentfor

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

Recoveringinaccessiblediskdevices ............................. 21

3 Support for load balancing in Microsoft Cluster Server environment for

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

EnablingsupportforloadbalancinginMSCSenvironments ................... 23

DisablingsupportforloadbalancinginMSCSenvironments................... 24

Recoveringinaccessiblediskdevices ............................. 25

4 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO XP DSM with the CLI utility 27

hpdsmdevices ...................................... 27

hpdsmdevicesall ..................................... 27

hpdsmpathsdevice .................................... 28

hpdsmsetdevicepolicy .................................. 28

hpdsmsetdevicepath ................................... 29

hpdsmcleanupdevice ................................... 30

hpdsmnotify ....................................... 30

HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 3.00.00