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HP VMA SAN Gateway for VMA-series Memory Arrays Release Notes – November 2011 Table of contents Introduction ...

10 SAN Gateway only supports the de facto standard Peripheral Device Addressing (PDA) mode. Legacy mode requires Volume Set Addressing (VSA) for tar

11 Recommended Multipath Settings For Linux environments, it is recommended to change from the default settings for multipathing. For heavily loaded

12 3. Check the box for MPIO and install. 4. Reboot the server to initialize MPIO and claim devices. Verify that MPIO has correctly identified th

13 VMA SAN Gateway: general recommendations and limitations The following are general recommendations for getting optimal performance with the HP VMA

14 Currently only 512B sectors are supported While the VMA SAN Gateway will allow creation of LUNs with either a 512B or 4KB sector size, only 512B s

15 CLI commands are case sensitive All CLI commands are case sensitive and usually are all lower case. CLI commands are documented in appendices of

16 logged and e-mail notification indicating that a process was killed. When the gateway is restarted, the gateway will re-export the LUNs.  Web b

For more information To read more about the HP VMA-series Memory Arrays and VMA SAN Gateway, go to: www.hp.com/go/vma

2 Introduction The VMA SAN Gateway provides additional scale of connectivity and availability for connecting host servers using industry standard Fib

3 VMA features not initially supported by HP The VMA-series memory arrays (VMA) and vSHARE OE are manufactured by Violin Memory. Not all features an

4 Figure 2: VMA SAN Gateway – back view (P/N AM465A) The FC HBA ports in the VMA SAN Gateway act as storage target ports which are connected to a

5 Figure 3: VMA-series Memory Array – back view showing PCIe ports The following figures show how to properly insert the VMA PCIe Pass-Thru and O

6 Figure 5: Correct connections for two VMA-series Memory Arrays to one VMA SAN Gateway VMA SAN Gateway software configuration Please take time t

7 Note that the title of Chapter 3, Configuring and Managing Clusters, in the HP VMA SAN Gateway Installation and User Guide is somewhat misleading.

8 Table 1. VMA SAN Gateway FC target port naming. VMA SAN Gateway HBA I/O Slot # Target Port Name Left Port Right Port 2 hba-a1 hba-a2

9  ProLiant DL980 G7 running RHEL 5.7  ProLiant DL980 G7 running SLES 11 SP1  ProLiant DL980 G7 running Windows Server 2008 R2 & R2 SP1 Fo