Connecting Volumes With Mpio - HP StoreVirtual 4000 Deployment Manual

4. Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next.
The installation wizard takes you through the installation process for the DSM for MPIO.
5. Reboot the server to complete the installation.
Perform a silent install for Windows Server 2008 Server Core option
1. Open a command prompt and use the cd command to navigate to setup.exe in the
installation media.
2. Type the following command:
setup /s /f1".\setup.iss"
The setup begins. You will see nothing until after a minute or two, when the server reboots.
3. When the server is back up, check \Windows\dsminstall.log for errors.

Connecting volumes with MPIO

Once the DSM for MPIO or Microsoft DSM is installed on the server, all iSCSI volume connections
made to an iSCSI SAN will attempt to connect with the DSM. You do not need to configure the
multiple I/O paths manually.
If you are also using the Multi-Site SAN features, you can assign servers to specific sites to avoid
high-latency connections between sites. For more information, see the HP LeftHand Storage Multi-Site
Configuration Guide.
Connecting application servers with single or multiple NICs to volumes
To connect to the volumes using the iSCSI Initiator:
1. Open the iSCSI Initiator.
2. On the Discovery tab, enter the VIP address of the cluster.
3. On the Targets tab, select the volume to log on to.
4. Click Log On.
5. Select the Enable multi-path check box.
Figure 1 Enabling multi-path for DSM
6. [Optional] If you want this volume to be available after rebooting, select the Automatically
restore... check box.
7. Click Advanced to open the Advanced Settings window.
8. Configure the Advanced Settings as follows:
For Local adaptor, select Microsoft iSCSI initiator.
For Source IP, select the IP address of the storage NIC to connect to the volume.
For Target portal, select the VIP of the cluster containing the volume.
6 Using MPIO