HP EVA P6000, User Manual

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Recovery CD.....................................................................................................................38
Adding disk drives to the storage system...............................................................................38
Handling fiber optic cables.................................................................................................38
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................39
Powering on disk enclosures................................................................................................39
Powering off disk enclosures................................................................................................40
Shutting down the storage system from HP P6000 Command View...........................................40
Shutting down the storage system from the array controller......................................................40
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................40
Restarting the iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module ..........................................................................41
Using the management module................................................................................................42
Connecting to the management module................................................................................42
Connecting through a public network...............................................................................43
Connecting through a private network..............................................................................44
Accessing HP P6000 Command View on the management module..........................................44
Changing the host port default operating mode.....................................................................44
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................45
Saving or restoring the iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module configuration...........................................47
3 Configuring application servers..................................................................49
Overview..............................................................................................................................49
Clustering..............................................................................................................................49
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................49
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................49
Testing connections to the array................................................................................................50
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................50
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................51
Verifying virtual disk access from the host...................................................................................51
Configuring virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................51
HP-UX...................................................................................................................................51
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................51
Creating volume groups on a virtual disk using vgcreate.........................................................52
IBM AIX................................................................................................................................53
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................53
Adding hosts.....................................................................................................................53
Creating and presenting virtual disks....................................................................................53
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................53
Linux.....................................................................................................................................54
Driver failover mode...........................................................................................................54
Installing a QLogic driver....................................................................................................54
Upgrading Linux components..............................................................................................55
Upgrading qla2x00 RPMs..............................................................................................55
Detecting third-party storage...........................................................................................55
Compiling the driver for multiple kernels...........................................................................56
Uninstalling the Linux components........................................................................................56
Using the source RPM.........................................................................................................56
Verifying virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................57
OpenVMS.............................................................................................................................57
Updating the AlphaServer console code, Integrity Server console code, and Fibre Channel FCA
firmware...........................................................................................................................57
Verifying the Fibre Channel adapter software installation........................................................57
Console LUN ID and OS unit ID...........................................................................................57
Adding OpenVMS hosts.....................................................................................................58
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................58
Configuring virtual disks from the OpenVMS host...................................................................59
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