System Requirements; Installing The Hp Storeall Windows Client - HP StoreAll Series Installation Manual

This section provides information on system requirements and procedures for installing and
configuring the HP StoreAll Windows client.
IMPORTANT:
incompatible AD user-to-UID mapping. Optionally, use either SMB or the HP StoreAll Windows
clients, but do not use both at the same time.
NOTE: While setting up and configuring the client, from most screens, you may click Cancel to
cancel the procedure, or click Help to display on-screen help information.

System requirements

Note the following requirements for using the HP StoreAll Windows client:
Windows Server 2003 SP2. This server does not require you to install the SFU v3.5 software,
which is part of the server distribution but is not installed by default. User mapping services
are built in.
Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 must be installed.
Client computers must be members of a security domain managed by Active Directory.
The client also requires a connection to a Windows Active Directory server to look up mappings
between Windows and Linux users. The following versions of Active Directory servers are
supported:
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Windows Server 2003
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Windows Server 2008
R2 User Mapping Services are built into these operating systems and do not require installation.
Note the following requirements:
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DHCP must be disabled. The HP StoreAll OS Software requires static IP addresses to
communicate.
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The machine clock must be synchronized (for example, through the Network Time Protocol).
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A network interface must be configured for cluster network communications. Set up only
one cluster interface.

Installing the HP StoreAll Windows client

Copy the Windows client installer MSI file on the HP StoreAll client machine, launch the installer,
and follow the instructions to complete the installation. A copy of the install files can be obtained
from the release location where client files are made available.
The installation includes an HP StoreAll OS Software Virtual Bus Enumerator that creates a Virtual
Disk Device on the bus and registers a plug-and-play driver to service it. This virtual partition
provides the mountpoint for the HP StoreAll OS Software file system. To verify the installation of
the driver, click Control Panel→System→Device Manager+Hardware tab+Device Manager, and
then look for the HP StoreAll Virtual Disk Device.
NOTE: This volume is shown with a capacity of 2 TB, the maximum size of a disk in a 32-bit
Windows system. Your volume might be bigger or smaller, but because of synchronization issues,
the disk appears as 2 TB regardless of the actual size.
The installed files for the virtual bus and driver are C:\windows\system32\drivers\idef.sys
and virtbd.sys.
SMB and the HP StoreAll Windows clients cannot be used together because of
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