HP 6400/8400 User Manual page 4

Using FATA disk drives........................................................................................................34
Using solid state disk drives.................................................................................................34
QLogic HBA speed setting..................................................................................................34
EVA6400/8400 host port negotiates to incorrect speed.........................................................34
Creating 16 TB or greater virtual disks in Windows 2008.......................................................35
Importing Windows dynamic disk volumes............................................................................35
Losing a path to a dynamic disk..........................................................................................35
Microsoft Windows 2003 MSCS cluster installation................................................................35
Maximum LUN size............................................................................................................35
Managing unused ports......................................................................................................36
Changing the host port connectivity......................................................................................36
Failback preference setting for HSV controllers............................................................................37
Changing virtual disk failover/failback setting.......................................................................39
Implicit LUN transition.........................................................................................................39
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................39
Shutting down the storage system.........................................................................................40
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................40
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................40
Adding disk drives to the storage system....................................................................................42
Creating disk groups..........................................................................................................43
Handling fiber optic cables......................................................................................................43
Using the OCP.......................................................................................................................43
Displaying the OCP menu tree.............................................................................................43
Displaying system information..............................................................................................45
Displaying versions system information..................................................................................45
Shutting down the system....................................................................................................45
Shutting the controller down................................................................................................46
Restarting the system..........................................................................................................46
Uninitializing the system......................................................................................................47
Password options...............................................................................................................47
Changing a password........................................................................................................47
Clearing a password..........................................................................................................48
4 Configuring application servers..................................................................49
Overview..............................................................................................................................49
Clustering..............................................................................................................................49
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................49
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................49
Testing connections to the EVA.................................................................................................50
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................50
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................50
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................................................................................................................................52
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................52
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
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