installation and reference guide HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays 3.02.00 (AA-RW8AF-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 MSA1000/1500
(Active-Active) Disk Arrays .................................................................... 11
Preparing for installation ............................................................................................................ 11
Installing HP MPIO MSA DSM .................................................................................................... 12
Installing HP MPIO MSA DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................... 12
Installing HP MPIO MSA DSM on a clustered system ............................................................... 13
Upgrading HP MPIO MSA DSM ................................................................................................. 13
Upgrading HP MPIO MSA DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................ 13
Upgrading HP MPIO MSA DSM on a clustered system ............................................................ 14
Migrating HP MPIO MSA DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ...................... 14
Removing HP MPIO MSA DSM ................................................................................................... 15
Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 16
Installing HP MPIO MSA DSM ............................................................................................. 17
Upgrading HP MPIO MSA DSM ........................................................................................... 18
Removing HP MPIO MSA 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 Load balancing ............................................................................... 23
Subset based load balancing .....................................................................................................23
Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 24
4 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO MSA DSM with the CLI
utility ................................................................................................. 25
hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 25
hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 26
hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 27
hpdsm set device policy ............................................................................................................. 27
hpdsm set device subset path ..................................................................................................... 28
hpdsm set device path ............................................................................................................... 29
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