You must configure the operating system before you can
use these servers with the SAN Volume Controller.
Before you configure the host operating system, the following
tasks must be completed:
- Your IBM® service
representative must
have installed the SAN Volume Controller.
- You must have installed the appropriate host bus adapter (HBA)
and driver on your host system.
After the prerequisite tasks are complete, use the following
general steps to configure your host system:
- Zone the host system to the SAN Volume Controller on
the Fibre Channel SAN.
- Install the appropriate multipathing driver for your host
system to enable the management of multiple paths to SAN Volume Controller virtual
disks (VDisks).
Notes: - For HP-UX version 11.31, HP does not require installing a separate
multipath driver. As part of this version, native multipathing solution
is supported with the mass storage stack feature.
- The IBM System Storage® Multipath
Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) only
supports the HP-UX 11iv1 and HP-UX 11iv2 operating systems in a clustering
environment. The subsystem
device driver (SDD) does
not support the HP-UX 11.0 operating systems in a clustering environment.
- SDD does not support an HP-UX 32-bit mode operating environment.
- To have failover protection on an open system, SDD requires
a minimum of two fibre-channel adapters. The maximum number of supported
fibre-channel adapters is four, on a total of four fibre-channel ports.
- Create the host system on the SAN Volume Controller using
the worldwide port names (WWPNs). Map the VDisks to the host as required.
- Create volumes/disks on your host using instructions in
your host system publications.