9.0 HP StorageWorks P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide

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Best Practice Summary

Use the Best Practice Summary in the CMC to review your SAN configuration and to ensure you are

following best practices for the disk RAID and Network RAID configurations, as well as network

configurations and the overall SAN configuration. The Best Practice Summary provides an easy-to-use

reference about best practices that can increase the reliability and performance of your SAN

configurations. You can see the Best Practice Summary on the Configuration Summary window in the

CMC. Click the Help button available by any best practice item for further information.

1. Navigate to the Configuration Summary window in the CMC.

2. Log in to the management group to verify the Best Practices for that management group.

Troubleshooting

Table 6 Troubleshooting installation — ESX version

SolutionProblem

1. Close your CMC session.

2. In the VI Client, power off the VSA.

3. Right-click and select Delete from Disk.

4. Copy fresh files into the virtual machine folder from the down-

loaded zip file or distribution media.

5. Open VMware and begin again.

You want to reinstall the VSA

Open the Configuration Interface. Navigate to the Network Settings

window to verify the IP address.

You cannot find the VSA with the CMC,

and cannot recall its IP address.

Verify that the VSA has a virtual disk configured on SCSI 1:0. VSAs

use SCSI 0:0 and 0:1 for operating system disks. They use the disk

configured for SCSI 1:0 for SAN data storage. If no SCSI disk is

configured for SCSI 1:0 then RAID cannot be configured on the ap-

pliance.

You can’t configure RAID.

In Windows

1. Open the Windows Display Settings > Advanced settings >

Troubleshoottab.

2. Move the Hardware Acceleration slider to one notch above

None.

3. Click OK, and then OK again to leave the Properties dialog.

4. Restart the Installation wizard.

If the Installation wizard freezes, reset

the Hardware Acceleration in Win-

dows.

In Linux

Run CMC_Installer.bin again.

If the installer does not start automatic-

ally

In VI Client

If your cursor is missing, you are in console mode. Press Ctrl-Alt to

regain the cursor. If your keyboard is missing, move the mouse to the

console window and click once.

You don’t have the cursor available,

or you don’t have the keyboard avail-

able.

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