HP 3PAR Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide

Contents
1 HP 3PAR OS Upgrade Overview..................................................................4
Audience.................................................................................................................................4
Supported Upgrade Types.........................................................................................................5
2 Guidelines for Online Upgrades...................................................................6
Planning Information for Online HP 3PAR OS Upgrades................................................................6
General Guidelines...................................................................................................................6
Host Configuration Guidelines....................................................................................................7
HP 3PAR Persistent Ports........................................................................................................9
HP 3PAR OS Persona Changes..............................................................................................9
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Configuration Guidelines..................................................................13
HP 3PAR Remote Copy Guidelines............................................................................................14
Remote Versus Local Methods for an HP 3PAR OS Upgrade.........................................................15
Remote HP 3PAR OS Upgrades...........................................................................................15
Local HP 3PAR OS Upgrades..............................................................................................15
Start-and-Stop Quorum Witness Steps........................................................................................15
3 Red Hat, Oracle, Linux, and SUSE Guidelines..............................................17
4 Sun/Solaris Configuration Guidelines.........................................................18
IO_Path I/O Path Monitoring for Solaris....................................................................................18
5 Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation DMP (VxDMP) and Online Upgrade......21
Changing the Veritas DMP Link Restore Interval...........................................................................21
Restoring the Veritas DMP Link Restore Interval............................................................................22
6 VMware ESX Server Guidelines..................................................................23
7 Windows Server OS Guidelines.................................................................24
Rebooting after an Upgrade....................................................................................................24
Microsoft MPIO Driver on Windows Server 2008.......................................................................25
Microsoft Hotfixes...................................................................................................................26
HP Peer Motion Manager........................................................................................................27
8 AIX Guidelines.........................................................................................28
9 Support and Other Resources.....................................................................29
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................29
HP 3PAR documentation..........................................................................................................29
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................32
HP 3PAR branding information.................................................................................................32
10 Documentation feedback.........................................................................33
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