HP Storage Hardware Providers VDS/VSS Installation Guide (5697-1131, August 2011)

Figure 2 HP P6000 hardware provider configuration
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Hardware
• HP Storage P6000 Disk Array—Disk array to be managed using VDS/VSS. For supported P6000
models, see the HP Storage P6000 hardware provider release notes.
• HP Storage P6000 Command View Server—A Windows server running P6000 Command View.
Multiple P6000 disk arrays must be managed from one Command View management server.
Other software is conditionally required on the P6000 Command View server. For more information,
see the HP Storage P6000 Command View Installation guide.
• VDS/VSS Server—A server that runs the supported Windows Server operating system and is
connected to the disk array via the SAN. This server manages your primary data and contains
applications (such as Exchange or SQL), VDS/VSS, and HP hardware providers. If multipathing
is required, HP MPIO Full-Featured Failover must also be installed on the VDS/VSS server. For
supported operating systems, see the hardware provider release notes.
• Optional Server 2—Another Windows server that can be connected to the array to manage VSS
copies and prevent additional demand on the VDS/VSS server. Depending on the purpose of this
server, you may also need to install the HP hardware providers, your application software, and
MPIO Full-Featured Failover.
The optional server (and HP P6000 VSS hardware provider) can be used to import the shadow
copy volume for operations such as consistency verification using eseutil, datamining, or
/tapebackup.
• Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs)—Connect each server to the disk array via a Fibre
Channel SAN.
• Fibre Channel switch(es) and cables—Connect host servers to the disk array.
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