HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0204, January 2010)

Contents

1 SAN Virtualization Services Platform overview ...................................... 11

Data Path Modules ................................................................................................................... 12

Virtualization Services Manager ................................................................................................. 12

Administrator tasks .................................................................................................................... 13

Frequently performed tasks .................................................................................................. 13

Common SVSP tasks to get started ................................................................................. 14

Installing the VSM CLI .................................................................................................. 15

Advanced tasks ................................................................................................................. 15

Creating synchronous mirrors ........................................................................................ 15

Import data from existing array virtual disks to reuse the data ............................................ 15

Creating PiTs and snapshots using HP Business Copy SVSP ............................................... 15

Creating snapclones using HP Business Copy SVSP .......................................................... 16

Creating remote mirrors using HP Continuous Access SVSP ............................................... 16

Maintaining write order or crash consistency across multiple virtual disks ............................ 16

Best practices ........................................................................................................................... 16

Supported configurations ........................................................................................................... 16

Provided utilities and files ........................................................................................................... 17

2 Adding devices to the domain ........................................................... 19

SVSP licenses ........................................................................................................................... 19

Installing a license key file ................................................................................................... 20

Viewing licensed capacity ................................................................................................... 21

Zoning .................................................................................................................................... 22

Adding a new array ................................................................................................................. 22

Adding EVAs ..................................................................................................................... 23

Adding MSAs .................................................................................................................... 23

Adding HP XP arrays .......................................................................................................... 26

Adding non-HP branded arrays ............................................................................................ 26

Adding new back-end logical units from non-HP arrays ........................................................... 26

Adding new servers .................................................................................................................. 27

Deploying VMware ESX Server with SVSP ............................................................................. 27

Deployment overview ................................................................................................... 27

Configuration .............................................................................................................. 29

VMware storage administration best practices ................................................................. 33

VMware issues ............................................................................................................ 35

Installing multipath applications ........................................................................................... 36

AIX multipathing .......................................................................................................... 37

HP-UX multipathing ...................................................................................................... 38

Linux multipathing ........................................................................................................ 38

OpenVMS multipathing ................................................................................................ 39

Solaris 9 multipathing .................................................................................................. 39

Solaris 10 multipathing ................................................................................................ 39

VMware multipathing ................................................................................................... 40

Windows multipathing ................................................................................................. 40

Presenting SVSP virtual disks to servers .................................................................................. 42

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