HP XP7 RAID Manager Installation and Configuration User Guide (T1610-96065)

Contents
1 Installation requirements..............................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Supported environments............................................................................................................7
Supported Business Copy environments...................................................................................7
Supported Continuous Access Synchronous environments..........................................................7
Supported Continuous Access Asynchronous environments........................................................8
Supported Continuous Access Journal environments..................................................................9
Supported Snapshot environments..........................................................................................9
Supported Data Retention environments................................................................................10
Supported Database Validator environments..........................................................................11
Supported guest OS for VM................................................................................................11
Supported IPv4, IPv6 platforms............................................................................................12
Requirements and restrictions for z/Linux...................................................................................13
Requirements and restrictions for VM.........................................................................................14
Restrictions for VMware ESX Server......................................................................................14
Restrictions on AIX VIO.......................................................................................................15
Restrictions on Windows 2008/2012 Hyper-V.......................................................................17
About platforms supporting IPv6..........................................................................................18
Library and system call for IPv6.......................................................................................18
Environment variable.....................................................................................................18
Porting notice for OpenVMS....................................................................................................19
Requirements and restrictions for OpenVMS..........................................................................19
Known issues ....................................................................................................................23
Startup procedures using detached process on DCL................................................................24
Command examples in DCL................................................................................................26
Start-up procedures in bash.................................................................................................29
Using RAID Manager with Hitachi and other storage systems.......................................................31
2 Installing and configuring RAID Manager....................................................33
Installing the RAID Manager hardware......................................................................................33
Installing the RAID Manager software.......................................................................................33
UNIX installation................................................................................................................33
Changing the RAID Manager user (UNIX systems).............................................................34
Windows installation..........................................................................................................35
Changing the RAID Manager user (Windows systems).......................................................36
OpenVMS installation........................................................................................................37
In-band and out-of-band operations..........................................................................................38
Setting up UDP ports...............................................................................................................39
Setting the command device....................................................................................................39
Setting command device and virtual command device by in-band and out-of-band methods........40
About alternate command devices........................................................................................41
Creating/editing the configuration definition file.........................................................................42
3 Upgrading RAID Manager........................................................................44
Upgrading RAID Manager in a UNIX environment......................................................................44
Upgrading RAID Manager in a Windows environment................................................................44
Upgrading RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment.............................................................45
4 Removing RAID Manager..........................................................................46
Removing RAID Manager in a UNIX environment........................................................................46
Removing RAID Manager in a Windows environment..................................................................46
Removing RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment...............................................................47
Removing the RAID Manager components.................................................................................47
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