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

About this guid e

This guide provides information about HP M PIO Full Featured Device SpeciﬁcModule(DSM)forXPfamily

of Disk Arrays (called the “HP MPIO XP DSM” throughout this guide), including:

• Installing, upgrading, and removing HP MPIO XP DSM

• Migrating from Secure Path to HP M PIO XP DSM

• Support for lo ad balancing in Microsoft Cluster Server environm ents

• Managing HP MPIO XP DSM

Intended audience

This document is intended for users of HP MPIO XP DSM and users who are experienced with the

following:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86, IA64 and x64)

• XP48, XP128, XP512, XP1024, XP10000, XP12000, XP20000 and XP24000 disk arrays

• Microsoft C

luster Ser ver (MSCS)/Failover Cluster environm ents

• Microsoft Windo ws Server 2008 (x86, IA64 and x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 – Server Core (x86 and x64)

R elated documentation

In addition to this guide, see HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for XP family of Disk Arrays 3.00.00 release

notes.

Additional documentation, including whitepapers and best-practices documents, is available at

ttp://ww w.hp.com

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