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Hp storageworks eva virtualization adapter administrator guide (5697-0177, october 2009)

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1 Overview of HP EVA Virtualization Adapter ........................................... 7

Discovery of disk arrays and LUNs ................................................................................................ 7

Disk array discovery sequence ............................................................................................... 8

LUN discovery sequence ....................................................................................................... 8

Failover testing ........................................................................................................................... 9

Failover recovery ........................................................................................................................ 9

Communication path ................................................................................................................. 10

Replication options ................................................................................................................... 11

Command View EVA Configuration Options .......................................................................... 11

2 Configuring SRM and the HP EVA disk array ....................................... 13

Setting up the HP EVA SAN environment ...................................................................................... 13

Adding an ESX server ......................................................................................................... 13

Installing licenses ............................................................................................................... 13

Creating vdisks for datastores .............................................................................................. 14

Presenting LUNs ................................................................................................................. 14

Creating and configuring datastores ..................................................................................... 14

Installing HP EVA Virtualization Adapter ...................................................................................... 14

Pairing SRM sites ...................................................................................................................... 15

Configuring SRM to communicate with HP Command View EVA ..................................................... 15

Create protection groups .......................................................................................................... 18

Create recovery plans ............................................................................................................... 19

3 Installing and removing HP EVA Virtualization Adapter ......................... 21

Installation directory .................................................................................................................. 21

Installation prerequisites ............................................................................................................. 21

Installing HP EVA Virtualization Adapter ...................................................................................... 21

Checking the installation ............................................................................................................ 23

Removing HP EVA Virtualization Adapter ..................................................................................... 24

4 Failover and failback with SRM .......................................................... 25

Failover ................................................................................................................................... 25

Failback .................................................................................................................................. 25

Failback scenario with SRM ................................................................................................. 25

Snapconfig utility ...................................................................................................................... 26

5 Troubleshooting HP EVA Virtualization Adapter .................................... 29

HP StorageWorks EVA disk arrays do not appear in Site Recovery Manager .................................... 29

HP StorageWorks EVA Virtualization Adapter does not install ......................................................... 29

Virtual machines do not start at recovery site after failover. ............................................................. 29

Site Recovery Manager timeout failure in large array configurations ................................................ 29

Virtual machines do not start at recovery site during the test failover test. .......................................... 30

Error messages ......................................................................................................................... 30

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