HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0109, July 2009)

Windows multipathing ................................................................................................. 31
Presenting SVSP virtual disks to servers .................................................................................. 33
Creating the user defined host (UDH) ............................................................................. 33
Creating VSM virtual disks ............................................................................................ 33
Defining hosts in SVSP .................................................................................................. 33
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service ...................................................................................... 34
The VSS model .................................................................................................................. 34
Installing and configuring Microsoft VSS with VSM virtual disks ................................................ 35
Installing the SVSP VSS hardware provider on the host server ............................................ 36
Making sure that VSS works with the VSM virtual disks ..................................................... 39
Integrating VSS with asynchronously mirrored VSM virtual disks ......................................... 44
Integrating VSS with backup software ............................................................................. 44
VSS deployment with VSM virtual disk groups ................................................................. 47
Uninstalling the SVSP VSS hardware provider .................................................................. 48
3 Zoning ........................................................................................... 49
Back-end zones for capacity-based zoning ................................................................................... 50
DPM initiator port zoning .................................................................................................... 50
VSM server zoning ............................................................................................................. 50
Array zoning ..................................................................................................................... 50
Front-end zones for capacity-based zoning ................................................................................... 50
DPM target port zoning ....................................................................................................... 50
Host zoning ....................................................................................................................... 50
Capacity-based zoning example ................................................................................................. 51
Performance zoning .................................................................................................................. 58
Back-end zones for performance-based zoning ....................................................................... 58
Front-end zones for performance-based zoning ...................................................................... 59
4 Monitoring the SVSP domain ............................................................. 61
Monitoring system performance .................................................................................................. 61
Setting up Perfmon ............................................................................................................. 61
Using Perfmon counters to log .............................................................................................. 63
Troubleshooting Perfmon ..................................................................................................... 64
Monitoring license use ............................................................................................................... 64
Monitoring capacity utilization ................................................................................................... 64
Monitoring event logs ................................................................................................................ 64
5 Removing devices from the domain ..................................................... 65
Deleting or reusing capacity ....................................................................................................... 65
Deleting PiTs, snapshots, pools, and stripe sets ....................................................................... 65
Deleting back-end LUs ......................................................................................................... 66
Retiring an array ....................................................................................................................... 66
Deleting hosts ........................................................................................................................... 66
6 Boot from SVSP devices .................................................................... 69
Boot from SAN with HP-UX ......................................................................................................... 69
Boot from SAN with Linux .......................................................................................................... 70
Boot from SAN with VMware ..................................................................................................... 70
Boot from SAN with Windows Server .......................................................................................... 71
7 Site failover recovery with asynchronous mirrors ................................... 73
The asynchronous mirror decision table ........................................................................................ 73
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