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Power distribution...............................................................................................................59
PDUs...........................................................................................................................60
PDU 1.....................................................................................................................61
PDU 2.....................................................................................................................61
PDMs..........................................................................................................................61
Rack AC power distribution............................................................................................62
Rack System/E power distribution components..................................................................62
Rack AC power distribution........................................................................................62
Moving and stabilizing a rack.............................................................................................63
4 Enterprise Virtual Array operation...............................................................65
Best practices.........................................................................................................................65
Operating tips and information................................................................................................65
Reserving adequate free space............................................................................................65
Using FATA disk drives........................................................................................................65
Changing the host port topology..........................................................................................65
Host port connection limit on B-series 3200 and 3800 switches...............................................65
Enabling Boot from SAN for Windows direct connect.............................................................66
Windows 2003 MSCS cluster installation..............................................................................66
Connecting to C-series switches...........................................................................................66
Failback preference setting for HSV controllers............................................................................67
Changing virtual disk failover/failback setting.......................................................................69
Storage system shutdown and startup........................................................................................69
Shutting down the storage system.........................................................................................69
Starting the storage system..................................................................................................70
Saving storage system configuration data...................................................................................70
Adding disk drives to the storage system....................................................................................72
Guidelines for adding disk drives.........................................................................................72
Creating disk groups..........................................................................................................73
Adding a disk drive...........................................................................................................74
Removing the drive blank...............................................................................................74
Changing the Device Addition Policy...............................................................................74
Installing the disk drive...................................................................................................75
Checking status indicators..............................................................................................75
Adding the disk to a disk group......................................................................................76
Handling fiber optic cables......................................................................................................76
5 Configuring application servers..................................................................78
Overview..............................................................................................................................78
Clustering..............................................................................................................................78
Multipathing..........................................................................................................................78
Installing Fibre Channel adapters..............................................................................................78
Testing connections to the EVA.................................................................................................78
Adding hosts..........................................................................................................................79
Creating and presenting virtual disks.........................................................................................79
Verifying virtual disk access from the host...................................................................................80
Configuring virtual disks from the host.......................................................................................80
HP-UX...................................................................................................................................80
Scanning the bus...............................................................................................................80
Creating volume groups on a virtual disk using vgcreate.........................................................81
IBM AIX................................................................................................................................81
Accessing IBM AIX utilities..................................................................................................81
Adding hosts.....................................................................................................................82
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