FW V06.XX/HAFM SW V08.02.00 HP StorageWorks SAN High Availability Planning Guide (AA-RS2DD-TE, July 2004)
Table Of Contents
- SAN HA Planning Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Introduction to HP Fibre Channel Products
- Product Management
- Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies
- Fibre Channel Topologies
- Planning for Point-to-Point Connectivity
- Characteristics of Arbitrated Loop Operation
- Planning for Private Arbitrated Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Fabric-Attached Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Multi-Switch Fabric Support
- Fabric Topologies
- Planning a Fibre Channel Fabric Topology
- Fabric Topology Design Considerations
- FICON Cascading
- Physical Planning Considerations
- Port Connectivity and Fiber-Optic Cabling
- HAFM Appliance, LAN, and Remote Access Support
- Inband Management Access (Optional)
- Security Provisions
- Optional Features
- Configuration Planning Tasks
- Task 1: Prepare a Site Plan
- Task 2: Plan Fibre Channel Cable Routing
- Task 3: Consider Interoperability with Fabric Elements and End Devices
- Task 4: Plan Console Management Support
- Task 5: Plan Ethernet Access
- Task 6: Plan Network Addresses
- Task 7: Plan SNMP Support (Optional)
- Task 8: Plan E-Mail Notification (Optional)
- Task 9: Establish Product and HAFM Appliance Security Measures
- Task 10: Plan Phone Connections
- Task 11: Diagram the Planned Configuration
- Task 12: Assign Port Names and Nicknames
- Task 13: Complete the Planning Worksheet
- Task 14: Plan AC Power
- Task 15: Plan a Multi-Switch Fabric (Optional)
- Task 16: Plan Zone Sets for Multiple Products (Optional)
- Index
Configuration Planning Tasks
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■ Security necessary to protect the installation’s physical integrity, while
maintaining accessibility to the director or switch.
■ Equipment rack front and rear service clearances, operator clearances, and
maintenance access clearances.
■ Weight of an equipment rack. Either multiple persons or a lift must be
available during installation to remove the rack from the packing crate.
■ Heat dissipation, temperature, and humidity requirements.
Complete the planning checklists under this task. The checklists provide detailed
planning activities and provide space for a planned completion date for each
activity. The customer’s management information system (MIS) project manager
should examine the checklists and determine the personnel and resources required
for completing planning and installation tasks.
Customer personnel might be used from the following functional areas:
■ Systems programming personnel to update input/output (I/O) definitions to
identify directors and switches.
■ Ethernet management personnel to obtain IP addresses, gateway addresses,
and subnet masks for directors, switches, and the HAFM appliance and a
domain name system (DNS) host name for the HAFM appliance.
■ Facilities planning personnel to outline the facility floor plan and to arrange
for electrical wiring, receptacles, and telephone lines.
■ Installation planning personnel to determine fiber-optic and Ethernet cabling
requirements and routing requirements and to plan connectivity between each
director, switch, and attached device.
■ Trainers to determine training and education needs for operations,
administration, and maintenance personnel.
■ Administrators to determine director port names and WWN nicknames,
identify attached devices, and assign password levels and user names for
director and switch access.
Table 4 lists physical planning and hardware installation tasks and includes the
activity, task owner, due date, and comments.