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HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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"SANtricity" Manager Utilities" must be installed on the host running RDAC for the

management server to obtain RDAC information.

HDLM on Sun Solaris requires the storage array to be included in discovery in order to report

the correct information back to the bindings page. For more information about HDLM issues,

see "Troubleshooting HDLM."

The software supports VERITAS Volume Manager without VxDMP, but VxDMP is required to do

multipathing.

Microsoft Windows 2003 hosts with Service Pack 1 and IBM TotalStorage DS6800 arrays do

not stitch properly as a result of the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) appearing on the same disk.

The multipathing page returns the Windows SDD path as something similar to

"600507630efe01a80000000000001104:c0t0d0p3". This makes it difficult to match it up

to your SDD path names.

The following figure displays how the software detects multipathing for a server running VERITAS

Volume Manager. "MP" is displayed on the path of the redundant volumes.