Table Of Contents - HP IBRIX X9720 System Administrator Manual

Contents
1 Product description...................................................................................11
System features.......................................................................................................................11
System components.................................................................................................................11
HP X9000 software features.....................................................................................................11
High availability and redundancy.............................................................................................12
2 Getting started.........................................................................................13
Setting up the X9720/X9730 Network Storage System................................................................13
Installation steps................................................................................................................13
Additional configuration steps.............................................................................................13
Logging in to the system..........................................................................................................14
Using the network..............................................................................................................14
Using the TFT keyboard/monitor..........................................................................................14
Using the serial link on the Onboard Administrator.................................................................15
Booting the system and individual server blades.........................................................................15
Management interfaces...........................................................................................................15
Using the GUI...................................................................................................................15
Customizing the GUI..........................................................................................................19
Adding user accounts for GUI access...................................................................................19
Using the CLI.....................................................................................................................20
Starting the array management software...............................................................................20
X9000 client interfaces.......................................................................................................20
X9000 software manpages......................................................................................................21
Changing passwords..............................................................................................................21
Configuring ports for a firewall.................................................................................................21
Configuring NTP servers..........................................................................................................22
Configuring HP Insight Remote Support on X9000 systems...........................................................23
Configuring the X9000 cluster for Insight Remote Support.......................................................23
Configuring Insight Remote Support for HP SIM 7.1 and IRS 5.7...............................................27
Configuring Insight Remote Support for HP SIM 6.3 and IRS 5.6..............................................29
Testing the Insight Remote Support configuration....................................................................32
Updating the Phone Home configuration...............................................................................32
Disabling Phone Home.......................................................................................................32
Troubleshooting Insight Remote Support................................................................................32
3 Configuring virtual interfaces for client access..............................................34
Network and VIF guidelines.....................................................................................................34
Creating a bonded VIF............................................................................................................34
Configuring standby backup nodes...........................................................................................34
Configuring NIC failover.........................................................................................................35
Configuring automated failover................................................................................................35
Example configuration.............................................................................................................35
Specifying VIFs in the client configuration...................................................................................36
Support for link state monitoring...............................................................................................36
4 Configuring failover..................................................................................37
Agile management consoles....................................................................................................37
Agile Fusion Manager modes..............................................................................................37
Agile Fusion Manager and failover......................................................................................37
Viewing information about Fusion Managers.........................................................................38
Cluster high availability...........................................................................................................38
Failover modes..................................................................................................................38
What happens during a failover..........................................................................................38
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