Overview Of Hp Eva Virtualization Adapter; Discovery Of Disk Arrays And Luns - HP 6100 Administrator's Manual

1 Overview of HP EVA Virtualization
Adapter
HP StorageWorks EVA Virtualization Adapter (HP EVA Virtualization Adapter) is installed on VMware
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) servers and enables communications between SRM and HP
StorageWorks Command View EVA (and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA for remote
replication).
HP EVA Virtualization Adapter performs the following functions:
Discovers disk arrays
Discovers replicated LUNs
Fails over storage for testing (test a recovery plan)
Fails over storage for recovery (execute a recovery plan)
For detailed operational information on HP StorageWorks Command View EVA, HP StorageWorks
Continuous Access EVA, HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA, or VMware Site Recovery Manager
see the sources cited in

Discovery of disk arrays and LUNs

During SRM configuration, HP EVA Virtualization Adapter is called to discover available arrays and
replicated LUNs.
The following information is discovered:
Storage array IDs (WWN)
Controller Port WWNs
Physical host HBAs
LUNs assigned to local (protected) physical and virtual hosts
Remote recovery storage array ID
Remote vdisk name
Remote vdisks are members of HP EVA data replication groups, and are replicated between protected
and recovery HP EVAs using HP Continuous Access EVA.
Related documentation.
EVA Virtualization Adapter administrator guide 7