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)

About this guide

This guide provides information about HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active)

Disk Arrays (called the “ H P MPIO MSA DSM” throughout this guide), including:

• Installing HP M PIO MSA DSM software

• Managing HP MPIO MSA DSM

Intended audi

ence

This document is intended for customers of HP MPIO MSA DSM and users who are experienced with the

following:

• Microsoft Wi

ndows Server 2003 (x86, IA64 and x64)

• MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Array

• Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)/Failover Cluster

• Microsoft W

indows Server 2008 (x86, IA64 and x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 – Server Core (x86 and x64)

R elated documentation

In addition to this guide, please refer to the following document for this product:

• HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for MSA1000/1500 (Active-Active) Disk Arrays release notes.

Additional documentation, including whitepapers and best-practices documents, is available at:

ttp://www.hp.com.

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