HP EVA Array iSCSI Connectivity Option - Manual (Page 5)

Connecting the mpx100/100b to AC power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Starting and configuring the mpx100/100b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Starting HP StorageWorks mpx Manager for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Starting HP StorageWorks mpx Manager for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring the mpx100/100b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Configuring the mpx100/100b iSCSI ports for Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) (optional) 60
Installing the mpx100/100b firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Using HP StorageWorks mpx Manager to install mpx100/100b firmware . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the CLI to install mpx100/100b firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5 Setting up the iSCSI Initiator and storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
iSCSI Initiator setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
iSCSI Initiator setup for Windows (single-path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Storage setup for Windows (single-path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
About Microsoft Windows server 2003 scalable networking pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SNP setup with HP NC 3xxx GbE multifunction adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
iSCSI Initiator version 3.10 setup for Apple Mac OS X (single-path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Set up the iSCSI Initiator for Apple Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Storage setup for Apple Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
iSCSI Initiator setup for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Installing and configuring the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 iSCSI driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Installing and configuring for Red Hat 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installing and configuring for Red Hat 3, 4 and SUSE 8 and 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing the initiator for Red Hat 3 and SUSE 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing the iSCSI driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Assigning device names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Target bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Mounting file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Unmounting file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Presenting EVA storage for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
iSCSI Initiator setup for Solaris (single-path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
EVA LUN 0 with Solaris iSCSI Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Disabling Controller LUN AutoMap using the mpx CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Prepare for a Solaris iSCSI configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Configure for EVA iSCSI target discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Set target discovery using MPX iSCSI port address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Set target discovery using iSNS server address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Creating an iSCSI host and virtual disks for the Solaris iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Command View 6.0.2 and 7.0 only—Remove LUN 0 from the Solaris iSCSI Initiator using the CLI . 84
Accessing iSCSI disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Monitoring your iSCSI configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
iSCSI Initiator setup for VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
iSCSI Initiator setup for OpenVMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Configuring TCP/IP services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Configuring VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Enabling Ethernet jumbo frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Configuring target discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Starting the iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Stopping the iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Setting up storage for OpenVMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6 Setting up the iSCSI Initiator for multipathing . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Understanding Fibre Channel multipathing for the mpx100/100b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
EVA storage array perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The mpx100/100b perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Understanding iSCSI multipathing with the mpx100/100b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
iSCSI Initiator perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Configuring multipath with Windows iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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