HP XP RAID Manager Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Installation requirements..............................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Supported environments............................................................................................................7
Supported Business Copy environments...................................................................................7
Supported Continuous Access Synchronous environments..........................................................7
Supported Continuous Access Asynchronous environments........................................................8
Supported Continuous Access Journal environments..................................................................9
Supported Snapshot environments........................................................................................10
Supported Data Retention environments................................................................................10
Supported Database Validator environments..........................................................................11
Supported guest OS for VM................................................................................................12
Supported IPv4 and IPv6 platforms.......................................................................................12
Requirements and restrictions for z/Linux...................................................................................13
Requirements and restrictions for VM.........................................................................................15
Restrictions for VMware ESX Server......................................................................................15
Restrictions on AIX VIO.......................................................................................................16
Restrictions on Windows 2008/2012 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................................................................................................26
Startup procedures in bash..................................................................................................28
Using RAID Manager with Hitachi and other storage systems.......................................................30
2 Installing and configuring RAID Manager....................................................32
Installing the RAID Manager hardware......................................................................................32
Installing the RAID Manager software.......................................................................................32
UNIX installation................................................................................................................32
Changing the RAID Manager user (UNIX systems).............................................................33
Windows installation..........................................................................................................35
Changing the RAID Manager user (Windows systems).......................................................35
OpenVMS installation........................................................................................................36
Command execution by in-band and out-of-band operations........................................................37
Setting up UDP ports...............................................................................................................38
Setting the command device....................................................................................................38
Setting command device and virtual command device by in-band and out-of-band methods........39
About alternate command devices........................................................................................39
Creating/editing the configuration definition file.........................................................................40
3 Upgrading RAID Manager........................................................................43
Upgrading RAID Manager in a UNIX environment......................................................................43
Upgrading RAID Manager in a Windows environment................................................................43
Upgrading RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment.............................................................44
4 Removing RAID Manager..........................................................................45
Removing RAID Manager in a UNIX environment........................................................................45
Removing RAID Manager in a Windows environment..................................................................45
Removing RAID Manager in an OpenVMS environment...............................................................46
Removing the RAID Manager components.................................................................................46
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