HP Insight Management 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

<add key = "Port" value = "5989"/>.

With the default adapter configuration, the SPM administrator must provide the EMC SMI-S

credentials to the SPM GUI during the import array operation (the default port value is visible on

the SPM GUI, other fields such as host, user, and password are set to blank). After you successfully

discover the array, the most recently used credentials are stored into a data file located under

state folder in the SPM install path. For example, C:\Program Files(x86)\HP\Storage

Provisioning Manager. For all the subsequent import array operations, you must re-enter the

previous values of host, port, username, and password.

Setting HTTP Timeout

Another parameter, which you must configure is the Http Timeout value. This value indicates

the time (in milliseconds) that the adapter waits for a response from the EMC array. The default is

5 minutes.

<!-- Http Timeout in milliseconds

You can increase this value if your environment results in an SPM timeout errors on SPM interface

or SPM log, when accessing the adapter.

Setting EMC Director Ports

You must configure the SPM adapter for EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage array after it is installed

and enabled. Otherwise, by default, SPM zones to all target controller (director) ports on the EMC

Symmetrix VMAX array for a given fabric, which might result in errors. There are some special

considerations for use by the HP-UX host mode. For more information, see the section “Setting

Flags on EMC Director Ports” (page 66). The storage administrator decides the appropriate degree

of sharing the EMC array (perhaps Matrix is using a specific subset of director ports), and ensures

appropriate physical connectivity from the Virtual Connect modules through the SAN to the

appropriate director ports. These ports must be configured for the SPM adapter through the

EmcSymmetrixVMaxAdapter.exe.config file located at C:\Program Files(x86)\HP\

Storage Provisioning Manager\plugins\storage_adapters\EMCSymmVMAX.

If individual ports are allowed from different directors, then administrators must configure this by

specifying the individual ports separated by a colon (:), as shown in the following example:

This configuration enables the adapter to use the configured ports (FA-8E:1 and FA-9E:0), while

presenting a volume to a host and performing SAN zoning in a Brocade SAN environment.

The administrator can specify one or more director ports as a list, each separated by a colon (:).

For example, if director 8E, with both port 0 and port 1 enabled, is allowed to be used by

Matrix/SPM, then administrator can configure this as shown in the following example:

This configuration enables the adapter to use both 8E:0 and 8E:1 ports while presenting a volume

to a host and/or performing zoning in a Brocade SAN environment.

The default value for target ports is set to the empty string (implying all target ports):

The administrator must restrict this to the subset connected physically. Else, the SPM adapter presents

and zones to all of the EMC ports on the appropriate fabric. This assumes equal use of all the

allowed ports.

If HP-UX is used, then it is necessary to ensure that the Matrix requests for volumes with an HP-UX

host mode are fulfilled using EMC ports, with VSA (Volume Set Addressing) flag enabled. For more

information, see the section “Setting Flags on EMC Director Ports” (page 66). If some requests are

for HP-UX host mode and some are for other host modes (Windows and Linux) that cannot be

fulfilled using ports with VSA enabled, then it is necessary to ensure that suitable ports are used.

For more information, see the “Using Suitable EMC Ports for Provisioning” (page 66) section.

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