Table Of Contents - HP StorageWorks XP10000 - Disk Array Configuration Manual

Contents
1 Installing and configuring HP-UX for the XP disk array ............................. 7
Features and requirements ........................................................................................................... 7
Fibre Channel interface ............................................................................................................... 7
Device emulation types ................................................................................................................ 8
Failover ..................................................................................................................................... 8
SNMP configuration .................................................................................................................... 9
XP RAID Manager command devices ............................................................................................ 9
Installation roadmap ................................................................................................................... 9
Installing and configuring the disk array ...................................................................................... 10
Setting the host mode and host group mode for the disk array ports .......................................... 10
Setting the system option modes ........................................................................................... 11
Configuring the Fibre Channel ports ..................................................................................... 11
Fibre address .............................................................................................................. 12
Fabric and connection parameter settings ....................................................................... 12
Installing and configuring the host ............................................................................................... 13
Loading the operating system and software ........................................................................... 13
Installing and configuring the FCAs ..................................................................................... 13
Clustering and fabric zoning ................................................................................................ 13
Fabric zoning and LUN security for multiple operating systems ................................................. 14
Connecting the disk array .......................................................................................................... 14
Defining the paths .............................................................................................................. 14
Verifying FCA installation .................................................................................................... 15
Verifying device recognition ................................................................................................. 15
Configuring disk array devices ................................................................................................... 17
Verifying the device files and drivers ..................................................................................... 18
Creating the device files ...................................................................................................... 19
Creating the physical volumes .............................................................................................. 21
Creating new volume groups ............................................................................................... 21
Creating logical volumes ..................................................................................................... 23
Creating the file systems ...................................................................................................... 25
Setting the I/O timeout parameter ........................................................................................ 26
Creating the mount directories ............................................................................................. 27
Mounting and verifying the file systems ................................................................................. 28
Setting and verifying the auto-mount parameters ..................................................................... 29
2 Troubleshooting ............................................................................... 31
Error conditions ........................................................................................................................ 31
3 Support and other resources .............................................................. 33
Related documentation .............................................................................................................. 33
Conventions for storage capacity values ...................................................................................... 33
HP technical support ................................................................................................................. 34
Subscription service .................................................................................................................. 34
HP websites ............................................................................................................................. 34
XP Disk Array Configuration Guide for HP-UX 3