HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Administrator Guide (5697-0934, May 2011)

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Contents

1 SAN Virtualization Services Platform overview................................................9

Data Path Modules...................................................................................................................9

Virtualization Services Manager...............................................................................................10

Administrator tasks.................................................................................................................10

Frequently performed tasks..................................................................................................10

Common SVSP tasks to get started...................................................................................11

Creating stripe sets...................................................................................................12

Creating SVSP storage pools......................................................................................12

Creating SVSP virtual disks........................................................................................12

Presenting SVSP virtual disks to application servers.......................................................12

Presenting hosts in SVSP............................................................................................12

Installing the VSM CLI....................................................................................................12

Advanced tasks.................................................................................................................12

Creating synchronous mirrors..........................................................................................12

Import data from existing array virtual disks to reuse the data..............................................12

Creating PiTs and snapshots using HP Business Copy SVSP.................................................12

Creating snapclones using HP Business Copy SVSP...........................................................13

Creating remote mirrors using HP Continuous Access SVSP.................................................13

Maintaining write order or crash consistency across multiple virtual disks.............................13

Best practices.........................................................................................................................13

Supported configurations.........................................................................................................13

Provided utilities and files.........................................................................................................13

2 Adding devices to the domain....................................................................15

SVSP licenses.........................................................................................................................15

Installing a license key file...................................................................................................16

Viewing licensed capacity...................................................................................................16

Zoning..................................................................................................................................17

Adding a new array...............................................................................................................17

Adding EVAs.....................................................................................................................18

Adding MSAs....................................................................................................................18

Adding HP XP arrays..........................................................................................................21

Adding non-HP branded arrays...........................................................................................21

Adding new back-end logical units from non-HP arrays...........................................................21

Adding new servers................................................................................................................22

Upgrading the AIX operating system....................................................................................22

VMware ESX Server...........................................................................................................23

Aligning file system partitions for Windows (pre-2008)...........................................................23

Installing multipath applications...........................................................................................25

AIX multipathing...........................................................................................................25

Installing AIX multipathing.........................................................................................25

HP-UX multipathing........................................................................................................25

HP-UX 11iv2.............................................................................................................25

HP-UX 11iv3.............................................................................................................26

Linux multipathing.........................................................................................................26

Installing the QLogic failover driver.............................................................................26

Using the native Device Mapper Multipath...................................................................26

OpenVMS multipathing.................................................................................................27

Solaris 9 multipathing....................................................................................................27

Solaris 10 multipathing..................................................................................................27

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