8x00 Enterprise Virtual Array updating product software guide (XCS 6.200) (5697-7958, February 2009)

Before beginning the upgrade, the current c onﬁguration information should b e collected and saved. This

information can be used to restore the existing conﬁguration if necessary. The conﬁguration data is saved

to a series of ﬁles stored in a location other than on the storage system. H P Storage System Scripting

Utility (called the utility) is used to collect conﬁguration information.

This procedure can be performed from the Storage Management Appliance (SMA) or management

server where HP Command View EVA is installed, or from any host running the utilit y to communicate

with the HP Command View EVA.

NOTE:

You will need the IP address or name of your management server to run the utility.

1. Double-click the H P Storag e Systems Scripting Utility desktop icon to open the utility. When

prompted, enter Manager (management server name or IP address), User name, and Password.

2. Enter LS SYSTEM to display the arrays managed by the management server.

3. Enter SELECT SYSTEM system name,wheresystem name isthenameofthestoragesystem.

The storage system name is case sensitive. If there are spaces between the letters in the name, quotes

must enclose the name. For exa mple, SELECT SYSTEM “Large EVA”.

4. Enter CAPTURE CONFIGURATION, specifying the full path and ﬁlename of the output ﬁles for

the conﬁguration data.

The conﬁguration data is stored in a series of one to ﬁve ﬁles, which are scripts. The ﬁle names

begin with the name you select, with the restore step appended. For example, if you specify a ﬁle

name of LargeEVA.txt,theresultantconﬁguration ﬁles would be LargeEVA_Step1A.txt,

LargeEVA_Step1B,etc. Fileswhichdonotcontainconﬁguration information are not created

and therefore are not available to be restored.

The contents of the conﬁguration ﬁles can be viewed with a text editor.

5. Enter exit.

NOTE:

You cannot use the utility to restore a conﬁguration that contains disk drives of different capacities.

You must manually restore that type of conﬁguration. See the “Restoring an array conﬁguration with

different disk sizes and types” section in HP StorageWorks Storage S ystem Scripting Utility reference

for more information.

You can run the CAPTURE VALIDATE command for each of the ﬁles generated by the CAPTURE

CONFIGURATION command to determine if the ﬁle has been modi ﬁ ed since the initial capture.

For more information about using the utility or using the CAPTURE comma nds, see the HP StorageWorks

Storage System Scripting Utility reference.See“Required documentation”onpage11forthelinktothis

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