HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P6x00 family of Disk Arrays 4.04.00 Installation and Reference Guide (757324-001, May 2014)

Contents
1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P6x00 family of Disk Arrays.........5
Preparing for installation............................................................................................................5
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM.....................................................................................................6
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system..............................................................6
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system..................................................................6
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM..................................................................................................7
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system...........................................................7
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system...............................................................7
Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM....................................................................................................8
Using silent installation..............................................................................................................8
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM................................................................................................9
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM...........................................................................................10
Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM.............................................................................................10
Creating response files for silent mode operations..................................................................10
Setting up boot from SAN........................................................................................................11
2 Support for load balancing in Failover Cluster Server environment for Windows
Server 2012................................................................................................12
Recovering inaccessible disk devices.........................................................................................12
3 Load balancing .......................................................................................13
Subset based load balancing...................................................................................................13
Use case scenarios.............................................................................................................14
Adaptive Load Balance...........................................................................................................14
4 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO EVA DSM with the CLI utility......15
hpdsm devices.......................................................................................................................15
hpdsm devices all...................................................................................................................15
hpdsm paths device................................................................................................................16
hpdsm set device policy...........................................................................................................17
hpdsm set device subset path...................................................................................................17
hpdsm set device alb..............................................................................................................18
hpdsm set device path.............................................................................................................18
hpdsm cleanup device.............................................................................................................18
hpdsm notify..........................................................................................................................19
hpdsm help............................................................................................................................20
Commands to manage the HP EVA DSM parameters...................................................................21
5 Support and other resources......................................................................22
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................22
Related Information.................................................................................................................22
Documents........................................................................................................................22
Websites..........................................................................................................................22
Documentation Feedback.........................................................................................................22
Product Feedback...................................................................................................................23
Document conventions and symbols..........................................................................................23
A Software components...............................................................................24
Drivers..................................................................................................................................24
User mode components...........................................................................................................24
HP MPIO DSM manager GUI..............................................................................................24
HP MPIO EVA DSM command line interface (CLI)..................................................................24
HP MPIO EVA DSM persistent reservations clear utility............................................................24
hpprutil devices.............................................................................................................25
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