HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterprise Virtual Array connectivity for Linux installation and reference guide Part number: 5697–7041 Sixth edition: September 2007
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Contents About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intended audience . . . . . . . . Related documentation . . . . . . Document conventions and symbols HP technical support . . . . . . . Subscription service . . . . . . . HP websites . . . . . . . . . . . Documentation feedback . . . . . 1 Host connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tables 1 ..Document conventions 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
About this guide This installation and reference guide provides information to help you: • Connecting your host to an Enterprise Virtual Array storage system • Getting pointers to the latest layered applications used with the Enterprise Virtual Array Intended audience This book is intended for use by storage administrators who are experienced with the following: • Host environments, such as Windows, Sun Solaris, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, and Novell Netware.
Table 1 Document conventions Convention Element Blue Text: Related documentation Cross-reference links and e-mail addresses Blue, underlined text: http://www.hp.
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About this guide
1 Host connectivity This chapter provides host connectivity information and links to components you need to support your operating system with an Enterprise Virtual Array storage system.
# rpm -ivh hp_qla2x00src-version-revision.linux.rpm • Use the following command to install the hp_qla2x00src RPM without running the driver build scripts: # rpm -ivh --noscripts hp_qla2x00src-version-revision.linux.rpm Upgrading the Linux components If you have any installed components from a previous solution kit or driver kit such as the qla2x00 RPM, invoke the INSTALL script with no arguments as shown in the following example: # .
Compiling the driver for multiple installed kernels If your system has multiple kernels installed on it, you can compile the driver for all the installed kernels by setting the INSTALLALLKERNELS environmental variable to y and exporting it by issuing the following commands: # INSTALLALLKERNELS=y # export INSTALLALLKERNELS You can also use the -a option of the INSTALL script by entering the following command: # .
NOTE: The RPM command contains the RPM build functionality in some of the older Linux distributions. At the end of the command output there is a line that displays the following message: "Wrote: ...rpm". This line displays the location of the binary RPM. 4. Copy the binary RPM to the production servers and install it using the following command: # rpm -ivh hp_qla2x00-version-revision.architecture.
2 Testing connections to the EVA3000/5000 This chapter describes how to test connections between the host server and the EVA3000/5000. Adding hosts To add a host using HP Command View EVA: 1. Retrieve the WWNs for each FC HBA in your server. 2. From HP Command View EVA: a. Select the Hosts folder under your EVA. b. Use Add Host to add your host with its first HBA WWN. c. Use Add Ports to add additional HBA WWNs. 3. Set host type: • To Linux for VCS 4.xxx. • To Solaris for VCS 3.
For VCS 4.
Index A accessing HP Command View EVA, 12 multipathing, 12 Secure Path, 12 SSSU, 12 C connectivity host, 9 creating virtual disks, 13 F Fibre Channel adapters accessing, 9 H HP Command View EVA accessing, 12 I intended audience, 5 M multipathing accessing, 12 P presenting virtual disks, 13 R related documentation, 5 S Secure Path accessing, 12 Storage System Scripting Utility (SSSU) accessing, 12 V virtual disks creating, 13 presenting, 13 verifying, 13 HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterpri
