HP 4000.6000.8000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays User Manual
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Go to
2.
Enter Storage Foundation for UNIX/Linux in the Product Lookup box.
3.
Enter EVA in the Enter keywords or phrase box, and then click the search symbol.
4.
To further narrow the search, select Solaris in the Platform box and search again.
5.
Read TechNotes and follow the instructions to download and install the ASL/APM.
6.
Run vxdctl enable to notify VxVM of the changes.
7.
Verify the configuration of VxVM as shown in
Example 3 “Verifying the VxVM configuration”
(the output may be slightly different depending on your VxVM version and the array
configuration).
Example 3 Verifying the VxVM configuration
# vxddladm listsupport all | grep HP
libvxhpevale.so HP HSV200, HSV210
# vxddladm listsupport libname=libvxhpevale.so
ATTR_NAME ATTR_VALUE
=======================================================================
LIBNAME libvxhpevale.so
VID HP
PID HSV200, HSV210
ARRAY_TYPE A/A-A-HP
ARRAY_NAME EVA4K6K, EVA8000
# vxdmpadm listapm all | grep HP
dmphpalua dmphpalua 1 A/A-A-HP Active
# vxdmpadm listapm dmphpalua
Filename: dmphpalua
APM name: dmphpalua
APM version: 1
Feature: VxVM
VxVM version: 41
Array Types Supported: A/A-A-HP
Depending Array Types: A/A-A
State: Active
# vxdmpadm listenclosure all
ENCLR_NAME ENCLR_TYPE ENCLR_SNO STATUS ARRAY_TYPE
============================================================================
Disk Disk DISKS CONNECTED Disk
EVA8100 EVA8100 50001FE1002709E0 CONNECTED A/A-A-HP
By default, the EVA I/O policy is set to Round-Robin. For VxVM 4.1 MP1, only one path is used
for the I/Os with this policy. Therefore, HP recommends that you change the I/O policy to
Adaptive
in order to use all paths to the LUN on the primary controller.
shows the commands you can use to check and change the I/O policy.
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Configuring application servers