HP ProLiant Storage Server SAN Connection and Management Application Notes (5697-6495, September 2007)

5. Install SecurePath Manager (optional). If you use SecurePath, and want to install SecurePath
Manager, see “Secure Path Manager (optional)”onpage11.
SecurePath Manager (optional)
SecurePath Manager provides web-based management capability for cross-platform SecurePath
configurations. This application displays a graphical representation of multiple path configurations,
indicating the status of a user-defined set of hosts, storage systems, and paths. SecurePath Manager runs
on web-based clients that support Sun Java™ 2 Runtime E nvironm ent (JRE) version 1.3.1 or later.
To obtain HP St
orageWorks SecurePath, go to h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/SecurePa th.
IMPORTANT:
Currently, HP NAS only supports SecurePath Manager version 4. 0C or later. If you have older versions,
contact HP Service and Support and upgrade, if you want to use SecurePath Manager on your NAS
system. HP Insight Manager must be installed for administrators to use SecurePath Manager.
SecurePath Manager can be accessed on web-based clients that have Sun JRE version 1.3 .1 or later
installed.
Expanding storage in a SAN environment
Expansion is the process of adding physical disks to an a rray that has already been configured. The
logical drives (or volumes) that exist in the array before the expansion takes place are unchanged,
because only the amount of free space in the array changes. The expansion process is entirely
independent of the operating system.
NOTE:
See your storage array user documentation for further details about expanding storage on the array.
Expanding storage on Modular Smart Arrays
The Array Configuration Utility (ACU) enables online capacity expansion of the array and logical drive
for specific MSA storage arrays, such as the MSA1000 and MSA1500.
Expanding the array
Expanding an existing LUN is accomplished using the storage array configuration software applicable to
the storage array in use. In the case of the Smart Array controller, this is accomplishe d us ing the Array
Configuration Utility (“Figure 1”). LUN expansion may occur in disk arrays where space is available. If
insufficient space is available, ad ditional physical disks may be ad ded to the array dynamically.
IMPORT
ANT:
An arra
y expansion or logical-drive extension takes about 15 minutes per gigabyte, or considerably
longer
if the controller does not have a battery-backed cache. While this process is occurring, no other
expansion or extension can occur simultaneously on the same controller.
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