HP EVA P6000 Storage - Manual (Page 4)

Reserving adequate free space............................................................................................36
Using SAS-midline disk drives..............................................................................................36
Failback preference setting for HSV controllers.......................................................................36
Changing virtual disk failover/failback setting..................................................................38
Implicit LUN transition.........................................................................................................38
Recovery CD.....................................................................................................................39
Adding disk drives to the storage system...............................................................................39
Handling fiber optic cables.................................................................................................39
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................40
Powering on disk enclosures................................................................................................40
Powering off disk enclosures................................................................................................41
Shutting down the storage system from HP P6000 Command View...........................................41
Shutting down the storage system from the array controller......................................................41
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................41
Restarting the iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module ..........................................................................42
Using the management module................................................................................................43
Connecting to the management module................................................................................43
Connecting through a public network...............................................................................44
Connecting through a private network..............................................................................45
Accessing HP P6000 Command View on the management module..........................................45
Changing the host port default operating mode.....................................................................45
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................46
Saving or restoring the iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module configuration...........................................48
3 Configuring application servers..................................................................50
Overview..............................................................................................................................50
Clustering..............................................................................................................................50
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................50
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................50
Testing connections to the array................................................................................................51
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................51
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................52
Verifying virtual disk access from the host...................................................................................52
Configuring virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................52
HP-UX...................................................................................................................................52
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................52
Creating volume groups on a virtual disk using vgcreate.........................................................53
IBM AIX................................................................................................................................54
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................54
Adding hosts.....................................................................................................................54
Creating and presenting virtual disks....................................................................................54
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................54
Linux.....................................................................................................................................55
Driver failover mode...........................................................................................................55
Installing a QLogic driver....................................................................................................55
Upgrading Linux components..............................................................................................56
Upgrading qla2x00 RPMs..............................................................................................56
Detecting third-party storage...........................................................................................56
Compiling the driver for multiple kernels...........................................................................57
Uninstalling the Linux components........................................................................................57
Using the source RPM.........................................................................................................57
HBA drivers.......................................................................................................................58
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................58
OpenVMS.............................................................................................................................58
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