Administering With Hp Smu; P2000 G3 Iscsi Msa Considerations - HP P2000 G3 MSA Technical White Paper

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Caution
Be sure to order the part number indicated in this notice, not the spare part number printed on your existing backplanes.
Be sure to order a quantity of two replacement kits.
Install the replacement backplane using instructions shipped with the backplane.
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Install the additional I/O module using instructions shipped with the I/O module.
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Firmware versions
If there are MSA70 enclosures connected to the P2000 G3 MSA, make sure that the firmware on the enclosure is 2.18 or
greater. If the MSA70 has a firmware version prior to 2.18, the MSA70 will be in a degraded state and virtual disks cannot be
created or accessed from the MSA70.

Administering with HP SMU

If you choose to use the HP Storage Management Utility (SMU) for administration, it is best to use either the Firefox 3.0 or
later or Internet Explorer 7 or later Web browsers.

P2000 G3 iSCSI MSA considerations

When using the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo G3 MSA (for iSCSI traffic), P2000 G3 10GbE iSCSI MSA, or P2000 G3 iSCSI MSA, it is a
best practice to use at least three network ports per server, two for the storage (Private) LAN and one or more for the Public
LAN(s). This makes sure that the storage network is isolated from the other networks.
The private LAN is the network that goes from the server to the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo G3 MSA (for iSCSI traffic), P2000 G3
10GbE iSCSI MSA, or the P2000 G3 iSCSI MSA. This private LAN is the storage network. The storage network should be
isolated from the Public network to improve performance. See Figure 9.
Figure 9. P2000 FC/iSCSI combo G3 MSA (for iSCSI traffic) Network
IP Address scheme for the controller pair
The P2000 FC/iSCSI combo G3 MSA (for iSCSI traffic) and P2000 G3 10GbE iSCSI MSA use port 0 of each controller as one
failover pair, and port 1 of each controller as a second failover pair. Therefore, port 0 of each controller must be in the same
subnet, and port 1 of each controller should be in a second subnet.
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