HP Matrix Operating Environment and HP Storage Provisioning Manager support for port groups

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Figure 1. An example of the network and controller port information in SPM.

In the example in

Figure 1

, there are two controller ports from the “suntr-f1-srv” 3PAR StoreServ on this particular network

(“lsmsansw1”). In this smaller case, the only two configuration options available are:

1. Create one port group with both controller ports

2. Create two port groups with one controller port each

(Examples of both configurations can be found in the Port Group definition file examples section.)

This identification should be done for each of the networks defined within SPM.

Port Group definition file examples

Example configured for one-to-one zoning

The following is an example of a Configuration.xml file that defines four port groups for the HP 3PAR StoreServ

“matrix-3par”. Each port group contains one controller port, which will result in one-to-one zoning. Note that there are two

(redundant) networks, with two port groups defined for each network. (The storage array has four controller ports total,

two on each network.)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<StorageArrayBridgeConfiguration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-

instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" Version="2.2"

xmlns="urn:StorageArrayBridgeConfiguration">

</PortGroup>

</PortGroup>

</PortGroup>

</PortGroup>

</ArrayPortGroupList>

</ArrayPortGroupLists>

</StorageArrayBridgeConfiguration>