
Contents
1 HP EVA Cluster overview ................................................................... 13
Hardware ................................................................................................................................ 14
Enterprise Virtual Arrays ...................................................................................................... 14
Data Path Modules ............................................................................................................. 15
VSM server ....................................................................................................................... 15
Management servers .......................................................................................................... 15
Fibre Channel switches ........................................................................................................ 15
Ethernet switch ................................................................................................................... 15
Software .................................................................................................................................. 15
Virtualization Services Manager ........................................................................................... 15
Data Path Module software ................................................................................................. 16
HP Command View EVA ..................................................................................................... 16
HP Command View SVSP .................................................................................................... 16
Licenses ................................................................................................................................... 16
Installing a license key file ................................................................................................... 17
Viewing licensed capacity ................................................................................................... 18
2 Adding servers to the HP EVA Cluster ................................................. 21
Zoning .................................................................................................................................... 21
Adding new servers .................................................................................................................. 21
Upgrading the AIX operating system ..................................................................................... 21
VMware ESX Server ........................................................................................................... 23
Aligning file system partitions for Windows (pre-2008) ............................................................ 23
Installing multipath applications ........................................................................................... 25
AIX multipathing .......................................................................................................... 25
HP-UX multipathing ...................................................................................................... 26
Linux multipathing ........................................................................................................ 26
OpenVMS multipathing ................................................................................................ 27
Solaris 9 multipathing .................................................................................................. 27
Solaris 10 multipathing ................................................................................................ 27
VMware multipathing ................................................................................................... 28
Windows multipathing ................................................................................................. 28
Presenting SVSP virtual disks to servers .................................................................................. 30
Creating the user defined host (UDH) ............................................................................. 30
Creating VSM virtual disks ............................................................................................ 30
Defining hosts in SVSP .................................................................................................. 31
3 Zoning ........................................................................................... 33
Zoning overview ....................................................................................................................... 33
HP SVSP zoning principles ......................................................................................................... 34
Zoning components in HP SVSP .................................................................................................. 35
Dual-fabric device configuration ................................................................................................. 37
DPM-host zoning ....................................................................................................................... 38
DPM-storage zoning .................................................................................................................. 40
Enterprise Virtual Array Cluster Administrator Guide 3
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