Technical Bulletin: Installing storage allocater into an hp surestore command view storage device management (sdm) environment

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Installing storage allocater into an hp surestore

command view storage device management (sdm)

environment

Storage Allocater was formerly known as HP SureStore SAN Manager LUN Management (LM)

This document explains how to install HP OpenView Storage Allocater into an HP SureStore Command

View SDM environment. Command View SDM is the software that is used to manage the HP SureStore

Virtual Array 7100 (va7100).

Assumptions

•

QLogic’s standard driver is installed and supporting the Command View SDM services

•

The va7100 array controllers are configured to support a Windows NT environment

Create Database LUNs

Although a one or two partition mirror set is satisfactory for the Storage Allocater database, HP

recommends creating the database on a mirror set composed of three 400-megabyte partitions.

In preparation for the database, create three 400-megabyte LUNs in addition to the LUNs that are required

to support your SAN environment. Remember the LUN numbers that were created for the database. These

numbers will be useful when you are required to select LUNs during the database creation process.

Install Storage Allocater

1. If the Command View SDM GUI is open, close it.

2. Run the Storage Allocater 1.2 installer.

3. The installer detects the existing QLogic driver and prompts you to disable it. Click

Yes

to disable the

existing QLogic driver.

4. After disabling the existing QLogic driver, the installer prompts you to reboot the system. Do not click

the

Finish

button. Instead, click the

button in the top right corner of the Setup window.

Introduction

Installing storage allocater into a command view sdm environment

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hp OpenView storage allocater technical bulletin Installing storage allocater into an hp surestore command view storage device management (sdm) environment Storage Allocater was formerly known as HP SureStore SAN Manager LUN Management (LM) Introduction This document explains how to install HP OpenView Storage Allocater into an HP SureStore Command View SDM environment. Command View SDM is the software that is used to manage the HP SureStore Virtual Array 7100 (va7100).
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5. When the Exit Setup dialog box appears, click the Exit Setup button to close the installer. Note 6. By exiting the installer after disabling the standard QLogic driver, you avoid rebooting without an installed HBA driver, which currently (Command View SDM Build 9.2) causes Command View SDM’s HostAgent.exe to fail with an Exception Access Violation. Re-run the Storage Allocater installer.