Table Of Contents - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays Configuration Manual

Contents
1 Installing and configuring AIX for the P9000 family of disk arrays ............ 7
Features and requirements ........................................................................................................... 7
Fibre Channel interface ............................................................................................................... 7
Device emulation types ................................................................................................................ 8
Failover ..................................................................................................................................... 8
SNMP configuration .................................................................................................................... 8
RAID Manager command devices ................................................................................................. 9
Installation roadmap ................................................................................................................... 9
Installing and configuring the disk array ........................................................................................ 9
Defining the paths .............................................................................................................. 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 .............................................................................................................. 11
Fabric and connection parameter settings ....................................................................... 12
Installing and configuring the host ............................................................................................... 12
Loading the operating system and software ........................................................................... 12
Installing and configuring the FCAs ..................................................................................... 12
Clustering and fabric zoning ................................................................................................ 13
Fabric zoning and LUN security for multiple operating systems ................................................. 13
Connecting the disk array .......................................................................................................... 14
Verifying host recognition of disk array devices ...................................................................... 14
Configuring disk array devices ................................................................................................... 14
Changing the device parameters .......................................................................................... 15
Assigning the new devices to volume groups .......................................................................... 17
Creating the journaled file systems ........................................................................................ 19
Mounting and verifying the file systems ................................................................................. 22
2 Troubleshooting ............................................................................... 25
Error conditions ........................................................................................................................ 25
3 Support and other resources .............................................................. 27
Contacting HP .......................................................................................................................... 27
Subscription service ............................................................................................................ 27
Related information ................................................................................................................... 27
HP websites ....................................................................................................................... 27
Conventions for storage capacity values ...................................................................................... 28
HP product documentation survey ............................................................................................... 28
A Path worksheet ................................................................................ 29
Worksheet ............................................................................................................................... 29
B Disk Array supported emulations ........................................................ 31
P9000 Configuration Guide: IBM AIX 3