HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Installation and Configuration User Guide (T1610-96046, August 2012)

Contents
1 Installation requirements..............................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Supported environments............................................................................................................6
Supported Business Copy environments...................................................................................6
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 and 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 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................................................................................................25
Startup procedures in bash..................................................................................................27
Using CCI with Hitachi and other storage systems.......................................................................29
2 Installing and configuring RAID Manager....................................................31
Installing the RAID Manager hardware......................................................................................31
Installing the RAID Manager software.......................................................................................31
UNIX installation................................................................................................................31
Changing the RAID Manager user (UNIX systems).............................................................32
Windows installation..........................................................................................................34
Changing the RAID Manager user (Windows systems).......................................................34
OpenVMS installation........................................................................................................35
Command execution by in-band and out-of-band methods...........................................................36
Setting the command device....................................................................................................37
Setting command device and virtual command device by in-band and out-of-band methods........38
About alternate command devices........................................................................................39
Creating/editing the configuration definition file.........................................................................40
3 Upgrading RAID Manager........................................................................42
Upgrading RAID Manager in a UNIX environment......................................................................42
Upgrading RAID Manager in a Windows environment................................................................42
Upgrading RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment.............................................................43
4 Removing RAID Manager..........................................................................44
Removing RAID Manager in a UNIX environment........................................................................44
Removing RAID Manager in a Windows environment..................................................................44
Removing RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment...............................................................45
Removing the RAID Manager components.................................................................................45
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