HP 418800-B21 - StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 70 Storage Enclosure, User Manual

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Item
Requirement
Host agent
An RSM host agent must be installed on a host to enable resizing of host volumes. See
below for host agents that support DC-Management.
Licensing
A DC-Management license must be purchased for each array on which you want
to use this feature.
File system
See the operating system requirements and considerations below for supported fi le
systems.
Controller
software
DC-Management is supported on all versions of controller software supported by RSM
4.0. See Controller software features .
HP Command
View EVA
A supported version of HP Command View EVA must be installed on the management
server to enable DC-Management
Windows requirements and considerations
• Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008 host agents support DC-Management.
For information on using Windows Server 2008 with the EVA, see the Implementing Microsoft
Windows Server "Longhorn" RCO on HP StorageWorks Arrays White Paper available on the
following HP website:
http://www.hp.com/go/ws2008
• Extending a host volume is supported on Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Shrinking
a host volume is supported on Windows Server 2008.
• Supported fi le systems include NTFS. MBR and GPT partitions are supported. Dynamic disks are
not supported.
HP-UX requirements and considerations
• HP-UX 11.31 and 11.23 host agents support DC-Management. The following table identi fi es the
DC-Management features supported for different HP-UX con fi gurations.
• DC-Management policies are supported only for single virtual disk host volumes.
• All of fl ine resize operations must be performed using the manual DC-Management feature.
Automatic DC-Management policies can only be used to perform an online resize.
• When taking a host volume of fl ine to perform a resize operation, all other host volumes that are
part of same volume group must also be unmounted. Before performing a resize, stop I/O on
all host volumes and close all open fi les so that RSM can take the host volumes of fl ine. After
completion of the resize operation, all host volumes will be mounted and you can resume I/O.
• Veritas fi le system (VxFS) is supported. HFS fi le system is not supported.
• The following resize operations are not supported when using LVM:
• Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Groups with mirrored, striped, or contiguous
logical volumes.
• Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Group when VG is cluster aware (activated in
shared or exclusive mode).
• Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Group using PV that is not allocatable (includes
spare PVs and PVs in read-only mode).
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