8x00 family of Disk Arrays 3.00.00 Installation and Reference Guide (AA-RW7SJ-TE, March 2008)

1. At the command prompt, type the following command: <CMD> setup.exe /r,where/r

option enables the record mode.

2. This will result in the GUI installation to run in the record mode. Select the responses in each

screen and run through the installation.

NOTE:

When selecting the res ponse on each screen, do not click the BACK button, and modify the selection.

The r esponse ﬁle will have to be generated again in such a case.

3. The response ﬁle is created at the following location: %WINDDIR%\setup.iss,where,

%WINDIR% is the Windows installation directory.

4. Use this setup.iss ﬁle to perform the same silent mode operation on multiple systems across

thesameplatform.

Setting up boot from SAN

HP MPIO EVA DSM can be set up to boot externally from a SAN that uses HP StorageWorks HBAs and

RAID arrays. Booting externally offers the following advantages:

• Optional elimination of server-based internal boot devices

• Decreased downtime in the event of a server failure

Booting from a SAN requires speciﬁc setup procedures based on the speciﬁcsoftwaresolutions,HBA

ﬁrmware, and boot BIOS versions. See the following documents for detailed information about booting

from a SAN:

• HP StorageWorks Booting 32-bit Windows systems and Windows Server x64 Edition

systems from a Storage Area N etwork application notes, available at this web site:

ttp://h18006.www 1. hp.com/products/storageworks/san/d o cumentat ion.html

• HP StorageWorks Booting Itanium 64-bit Windows Systems from a Storage Area Network

application notes, available at this web site: h

ttp://h18006.www 1.hp.com/products/

storageworks/san/documentation.html

Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA4x00/6 x00/8x00 family of Disk Arrays