HP XP RAID Manager Software - Manual (Page 18)

3. Lun sharing between guest OS and console OS. It is not possible to share a command device
as well as a normal Lun between a guest OS and a console OS.
4. Running RAID Manager on Console OS. The console OS (management OS) is a limited
Windows, like Windows 2008 Server Core, and the Windows standard driver is used. Also
the console OS provides an execution environment to monitor and administer the entire Hyper-V
host.
Therefore, you can run RAID Manager by installing “RAID Manager for Windows NT” on the
console OS. In that case, the RAID Manager (RM) instance number between the console OS
and the guest OS must be a different instance number, even if the command is assigned for
each console and guest OS.
About platforms supporting IPv6
Library and system call for IPv6
RAID Manager uses the following functions of IPv6 library to get and convert from hostname to
IPv6 address.
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IPv6 library to resolve hostname and IPv6 address:
getaddrinfo() ◦
◦ inet_pton()
◦ inet_ntop()
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Socket System call to communicate using UDP/IPv6:
socket(AF_INET6) ◦
◦ bind(), sendmsg(), sendto(), rcvmsg(), recvfrom()…
If RAID Manager links above function in the object(exe), a core dump may occur if an OLD platform
(for example, Windows NT, HP-UX 10.20, Solaris 5) does not support it. So RAID Manager links
dynamically above functions by resolving the symbol after determining whether the shared library
and function for IPv6 exists. It depends on supporting of the platform whether RAID Manager can
support IPv6 or not. If platform does not support IPv6 library, then RAID Manager uses its own
internal function corresponding to “inet_pton(),inet_ntop()”; in this case, IPv6 address is not allowed
to describe hostname.
Figure 5 Library and system call for IPv6
Environment variable
RAID Manager loads and links the library for IPv6 by specifying a PATH as follows.
18 Installation requirements