Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product XP12000 HP (Hewlett-Packard)
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HP S tor age W orks Disk Ar r ay XP oper ating sys t e m c o n fi gur ation gui de: W indo w s 2000/200 3 XP12000 XP10000 SV S 2 00 P art number: A5 951-9 619 4 F ifth editi on: June 2006.
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Co nt e nt s P r e f a c e ........... ................... 5 A b o u t t h i s g u i d e .............. ............... .......... 5 I n t e n d e d a u d i e n c e ................... ............... .... 5 D i s k a r r a y s ................ ......
Emulation spec i fi c a t i o n s .................. ............... . 3 0 G l o s s a r y ............ ................. 3 3 I n d e x ............. .
Prefac e About this guide This guide pr ov ides inf ormation about: • Requir em ents and pr ocedures f or connecting an XP disk arra y or the SVS200 to a host sy stem • Con fi g ur ing the d isk .
Doc ument conv en tions and s y mbols Convention Element Blue text: Doc ument conventi ons a nd symb ol s Cr oss-r ef er ence links and e-mai l addr esses Blue , underlined te xt: ht tp:// www .
HP techni cal suppor t T elephone numbers f o r w orldw ide technical support ar e listed on the HP support web site: h ttp:/ /www .hp .com/ support/ .
8 Pref ace.
1 Install ation Y ou and your HP service r epresent ativ e each play a r ole in installation. Y our HP servi ce repr esentati ve is responsible for installin g the disk arra y and for mattin g the disk de vi ces.
F ibre Channel interface The XP f amily o f disk arr ay s and the SVS200 support these F ibr e Channel elements: • Connecti on s peeds of 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps , and 4 Gbps (XP12000/XP10000 onl y) • Shor.
SN MP c on fi gur ation The XP f amily of disk arr ays and the S VS200 support standard Simple Networ k Management Pr otocol (SNMP) for r emotely managing arra ys . T he SNMP agent on the service pr ocessor (SVP) performs err or-reporting operati ons r equested b y the SNMP manager .
Installati on pr ocedur es P erfor m these actions to install and con fi gur e the disk arr ay: 1. Install and con fi gur e the disk arr ay • Setting the hos t mode and host gr oup mode • Setting t he S yst em Option Mode • Con fi guring the F ibre Channel ports 2.
Setting the hos t mode and hos t gr oup mode for the disk ar ra y por ts After the disk arr ay is installed, y ou must set the host mode for eac h disk arra y por t to match the hos t OS . Set the hos t mode using L UN M anager in R emote W eb Console (show n) , Command Vi ew (XP arr ays only), or Command Vi e w XP Adv anced E dition.
When a new ho st gr oup is added, additional ho st gr oup modes (options) ma y be con fi gured . The stor age administr ator must ver if y if an additional host gr oup mode is requi red f or the host group .
Con fi gur ing the F ibr e Channel ports Con fi gure the disk arr ay F ibre C hannel ports by u sing R emote W eb Cons ole (sho wn), Command V ie w (XP arr ays only), or Command Vi ew XP A dv anced E d i tion . Select the settings f or each port based on y our stor age area networ k topology .
F abric and con nec tion par ameter settings Set each arr a y port to F ABRIC ON or OFF with connecti ons of P OINT-T O-POINT or FC-AL as show n in the follo wing table and fi gur es. For detailed topolog y informati o n , re fer to the HP Stor age W orks S AN Desi gn Ref er ence Gu ide on the w ww .
C ros s - refe re n ci ng H BA s T h ef o l l o w i n gt a b l ei d e n t i fi es both the HP p art number and the HBA manufac turer ’s number for common HB As.
F abri c z onin g and L UN sec urity By us ing appr opri ate z oning and L UN secur it y , you can connect v a r ious serve rs w ith vari ous operating syst em s to t he s am e swit ch a nd fa bri c: • Stor age port zone s may o verla p if mor e than one operating s ys tem needs to shar e an arra y por t .
C onnec t the disk ar r a y The HP r eprese ntati ve connec ts the cables between the ar ray and the ho st or between the ar ray and the SA N. De fi ning the paths Use R emote W eb Console (sh o wn),.
Ve r i f y i n g t h e h ost r e cogniz es arra y d e vices 1. Log int o the host as an administr ator . 2. Rig h t- cl ick t he My Computer desktop icon , and clic k Manage . 3. Click De vice Manager . 4. Click SCSI and RAID Co ntr olle rs . 5. Cli ck the hos t bu s adapt er to open i t , and ver ify all de vi ces ar e displ ay ed.
Cr eating and f ormatting disk par titi ons Dynami c Disk is supported with no r estr icti ons for a disk ar ra y connected to a W indow s 2000/ 2003 sy stem.
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2 T roubl eshooting This sec tion inc ludes re solutions fo r var iou s err or conditions you ma y encounter . If y ou are unable to r esolv e an err or condition , ask your HP support r epresentati ve f or assist ance. See Calling the HP su pport center .
Er r or conditions Dependin g on y our s yst em con fi gur ation, y ou may be able to v iew err or messages (R-SIM S) as f ollow s: • In Remot e W eb Console XP (Status ta b) • In Command V ie w XP Adv anced E ditio n ( “ Alerts ” pa nel ).
Calling the HP s upport center If you ar e unab l e to r esolv e an err or cond i tion , contact the HP support center for assis tance. Cont act inf ormation T elephone numbers f o r w orldw ide technical support ar e listed on the HP support web site: h ttp:/ /www .
26 T rou bleshooting.
A P a t hw o r k s h e e t LDEV (CU:LDEV) (CU = control unit) Device T ype SCSI Bus Number Pa t h 1 A l t e r n a t e Pa t h s 0:00 TI D: LU N: TI D: LU N: TI D: LU N: 0:01 TI D: LU N: TI D: LU N: TI .
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B Disk arra y sup ported em ula tions This appendi x pro vides inf ormation about supported emulatio ns and emulation spec i fi cations . Some paramet ers may not be r elev ant to y o ur ar r ay . Consult y our HP repr esentati ve for inf ormation about suppor ted con fi gurations for y our sy stem.
Emulati on spec i fi cations Emulati on (Note 1) Category (Note 2) Blocks ( 512 by te s ) Sector Size (bytes) #o f Cyli nd ers Heads Sectors per track Capacity MB* (Note 3) OPEN-3 SCSI d is k 480 6 7.
Note 4: The number o f b loc ks for a CVS volume is calc ulated as follo ws: # of blocks = (# of cy linders) × (# of heads) × (# of sect ors per tr ack) Example For an OPEN-3 CVS volume with capacit.
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Gl o ssa ry AL Arb itr ated loop . AL-P A Arb itr ated lo op ph ysi cal addr ess . array g roup A gro up of 4 or 8 ph ysical har d disk driv es (HDD s) installed in an XP disk arr ay and assi gned a common RAID lev el. RAID1 arra y grou ps consis t of 4 ( 2D+2D) or 8 HDDs (4D+4D).
HB A Host bus adapter . host mode Ea ch p or t c an be con fi gured f or a par tic ular host type . These modes ar e r epr esented as two -digit he xadeci mal numbers . For e xample , host mode 08 r epr esents an HP-UX host . LDEV L ogical de vi ce .
TB Te r ab y t e . TI D Ta rg e t I D . Vo l u m e On the XP a r ray , a volume is a uniquely i denti fi ed vi rt ua l st orag e d evice composed of a contr ol un it (CU) component and a logical de vi ce (LD EV) component separat ed by a colon .
36 Glossary.
In de x A AL-P A ,1 5 arbitr ated-loop phy sical addr ess ,1 5 audience ,5 Aut o L U N XP ,9 Aut o P at h XP ,9 B Business Cop y XP ,9 , 1 1 C Cache LUN XP ,9 Cluster Extension XP ,9 command de vi ce(.
logical v olumes, cannot be cr eated ,2 4 LU N Co n fi gur ation and Sec ur ity Manager XP , 9, 19 LU N ( s) creat ing ,1 9 mapping ,1 9 O optional s oftwar e ,9 P par ity er r or ,2 4 path( s) de .
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