HP EVA P6000 Storage - Manual (Page 164)

Limitations
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HP P6000 Continuous Access is not supported with single path configurations.
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Single HBA path at the host server is not part of a cluster, unless in a VMware High Availability
Cluster.
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Booting from the SAN is supported on single path HBA servers.
Figure 84 VMware configuration
5. SAN switch 1 1. Network interconnection
6. SAN switch 2 2. Single HBA server (Host 1)
7. Controller A 3. Dual HBA server (Host 2)
8. Controller B 4. Management server
Mac OS configuration
For information about Mac OS connectivity, see Mac OS X Fibre Channel connectivity to the HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Storage System Configuration Guide (to download, see
“Related documentation” (page 197) ).
Failure scenarios
HP-UX
Failure effect Fault stimulus
Extremely critical event on UNIX. Can cause loss of system disk. Server failure (host power-cycled)
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Switch failure (SAN switch disabled)
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Controller failure
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Controller restart
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