HP StorageWorks HSG80 ACS Solution Software V8.8 for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) Installation and Configuration Guide (AA-RV1XA-TE, March 2005)

Contents
11HSG80 ACS Solution Software V8.8 for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server
2003 (32-bit) Installation and Configuration Guide
Installing and Configuring Cluster Software on Both Host Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Verifying Device Driver Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Verify the Windows Registry Device Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Verifying Connectivity to the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Figures
1 General configuration flowchart (panel 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2 General configuration flowchart (panel 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 SWCC storage configuration flowchart (panel 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4 Location of controllers and cache modules in a Model 2200 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5 Location of controllers and cache modules in a BA370 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6 “This controller” and “other controller” for the Model 2200 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7 “This controller” and “other controller” for the BA370 enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
8 Transparent failover—normal operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
9 Transparent failover—after failover from controller B to controller A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
10 Typical multiple-bus configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
11 Mirrored caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
12 Connections in separate-link, transparent failover mode configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
13 Connections in single-link, transparent failover mode configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
14 Connections in multiple-bus failover mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
15 LUN presentation to hosts, as determined by offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
16 Limiting host access in transparent failover mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
17 Limiting host access in multiple-bus failover mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
18 Placement of the worldwide name label on the Model 2200 enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
19 Placement of the worldwide name label on the BA370 enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
20 Mapping a unit to physical disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
21 PTL naming convention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
22 How data is laid out on disks in BA370 enclosure configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
23 Storage container types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
24 Three-member RAID 0 stripeset (example 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
25 Three-member RAID 0 stripeset (example 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
26 Mirrorsets maintain two copies of the same data (example 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
27 Mirrorset (example 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82