HP EVA Array iSCSI Connectivity Option - Manual (Page 6)

Microsoft MPIO multipathing support for iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing the MPIO feature for Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing the MPIO feature for Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Load balancing features of Microsoft MPIO for iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Microsoft MPIO with QLogic iSCSI HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Configuring multipath with the VMware iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Native multipathing solution for iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Setting up multipath configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Managing multipathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
VMware LUN multipathing policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Viewing and changing multipathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Viewing raw mapped LUNs properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Important information about multi-initiators and VMFS clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Configuring multipath with the Solaris 10 iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
MPxIO overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Preparing the host system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting configuration settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Verifying configuration settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Verifying that a single device is displayed for each LUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Enabling MPxIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Verifying the MPxIO configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Verify mpath-support parameter and Target Portal Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Configuring multipath with the OpenVMS iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Path description string format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Displaying path information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Manual path switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Device Mapper Multipath Enablement Kit for HP StorageWorks Disk Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Supported operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Installing the Device Mapper Multipath Enablement Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
iSCSI Initiator timeout settings for Red Hat 4 and SUSE 9 systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
iSCSI Initiator timeout settings for Red Hat 5 and SUSE 10 systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
HPDM Multipath restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
7 Using HP Command View EVA to configure LUNs to iSCSI Initiators . . . 129
Initial discovery of the mpx100/100b via HP Command View EVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Creating an iSCSI Initiator host via HP Command View EVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Presenting a virtual disk to an iSCSI Initiator via HP Command View EVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Unpresenting a virtual disk to an iSCSI Initiator using HP Command View EVA . . . . . . . . . . . 131
8 iSCSI Boot from SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
HP Multifunction Gigabit server adapter requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Supported operating systems for the HP Multifunction Gigabit server adapter . . . . . . . . . . 133
Supported hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
iSCSI option ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
QLogic iSCSI Host Bus adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Supported operating systems for the QLogic iSCSI HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Supported hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Supported BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Installing the OS on HP Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring the BIOS on QLogic iSCSI HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Installing the OS on QLogic iSCSI HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
9 EVA4400 iSCSI Connectivity 32 Initiator Upgrade License . . . . . . . 137
Installing the EVA4400 iSCSI Connectivity 32 Initiator Upgrade License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Installing the EVA4400 iSCSI Connectivity 32 Initiator Upgrade License with mpx Manager GUI . . . . 138
A Command line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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