Installation and Reference Guide for HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays 3.00.00 (AA-RW8AD-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 Device SpeciﬁcModule(DSM)for

MSA1000/1500(Active-Active)DiskArrayssoftware........... 11

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

InstallingHPMPIOMSADSMsoftware............................ 12

InstallingHPMPIOMSADSMonstand-alonesystems.................... 12

Installing HP MPIO MSA DSM on cluster conﬁgurations ................... 13

UpgradingHPMPIOMSADSMsoftware........................... 13

UpgradingHPMPIOMSADSMonstand-alonesystems................... 13

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

Migrating from Windows Server 20 03 to Windows Server 2008 with HP MPIO MSA DSM . . . . . . 14

RemovingHPMPIOMSADSMsoftware ........................... 15

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

InstallingHPMPIOMSADSM.............................. 17

UpgradingHPMPIOMSADSM............................. 17

RemovingHPMPIOMSADSM ............................. 17

Creating response ﬁlesforsilentmodeoperations ..................... 18

SettingupbootfromaSAN................................. 18

2SupportforloadbalancinginFailoverClusterServerenvironmentfor

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

Recoveringinaccessibledisks ................................ 19

3 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO MSA DSM with the CLI utility 21

CLIcommands ...................................... 21

hpdsmdevices .................................... 21

hpdsmdevicesall ................................... 22

hpdsmpathsdevice .................................. 22

hpdsmsetdevicepolicy ................................ 23

hpdsmsetdevicepath ................................. 23

hpdsmcleanupdevice ................................. 24

hpdsmnotify ..................................... 24

hpdsmhelp...................................... 25

ASoftwarecomponents ...................... 27

Drivers.......................................... 27

Usermodecomponents................................... 27

HPMPIODSMmanagerGUI .............................. 27

HPMPIOMSADSMcommandlineinterface(CLI) ..................... 28

HPMPIOMSADSMperformancemonitoringprovider ................... 28

HPMPIOMSADSMpersistentreservationclearutility.................... 28

HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays 3.00.00