Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA3000/5000 VCS 4.xxx Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RW8SF-TE, March 2008)

Contents

Aboutthisguide .......................... 7

Intendedaudience...................................... 7

Relateddocumentation.................................... 7

Documentconventionsandsymbols .............................. 8

HPtechnicalsupport..................................... 9

HP-authorizedreseller .................................... 9

Helpfulwebsites ...................................... 9

1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA3000/5000 VCS 4.xxx

DiskArrays............................. 11

Preparingforinstallation ................................... 11

InstallingHPMPIOEVADSM ................................ 12

InstallingHPMPIOEVADSMonstand-alonesystems.................... 12

Installing HP M PIO EVA DSM on cluster conﬁgurations ................... 13

UpgradingHPMPIOEVADSM ............................... 13

UpgradingHPMPIOEVADSMonstand-alonesystems ................... 13

Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on cluster conﬁgurations................... 14

Migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 with H P MPIO EVA DSM . . . . . . 14

RemovingHPMPIOEVADSM................................ 15

Usingsilentinstallation................................... 15

InstallingHPMPIOEVADSM .............................. 16

UpgradingHPMPIOEVADSM ............................. 17

RemovingHPMPIOEVADSM.............................. 17

Creating response ﬁlesforsilentmodeoperations ..................... 17

SettingupbootfromSAN.................................. 18

2SupportforloadbalancinginFailoverClusterServerenvironmentfor

Windows Server 2008 . ...................... 19

Recoveringinaccessiblediskdevices ............................. 19

3 S upport for load balancing in Microsoft Cluster Ser ver environments for

Windows Server 2003 . ...................... 21

EnablingsupportforloadbalancinginMSCSenvironments ................... 21

DisablingsupportforloadbalancinginMSCSenvironments................... 22

Recoveringinaccessiblediskdevices ............................. 23

4AdaptiveLoadBalance ..................... 25

5 M anagin g storage arrays using the HP MPIO EVA DSM with the CLI utility 27

hpdsmdevices ...................................... 27

hpdsmdevicesall ..................................... 28

hpdsmpathsdevice .................................... 28

hpdsmsetdevicepolicy .................................. 29

hpdsmsetdevicealb.................................... 30

hpdsmsetdevicepath ................................... 30

hpdsmcleanupdevice ................................... 31

hpdsmnotify ....................................... 31

HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA3000/5000 VCS 4.xxx Disk Arrays 3.00.00