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HP P6000 SmartStart 4.3User Guide (Linux)AbstractThis document describes use of HP P6000 SmartStart and is intended for users and administrators invol

3. Click Next on the Important Information window.The Main Menu window opens.4. Select Start now to access all configuration options.The Configuration

2. Click Next on the Welcome window.3. Click Next on the Important Information window.The Main Menu window opens.4. Select Start now to access all con

IMPORTANT: If you need to control how disk groups are created on a storage system, donot use HP P6000 SmartStart for initialization. Instead, use HP P

Restoring mount points on Linux serversMount points which are established by HP P6000 SmartStart are not persistent across Linux serverreboots. To res

3. After you find the virtual disk LUN WWID, perform the following steps.a. Partition the device; sfdisk -f /dev/mapper/[devicename].b. Make a file sy

Adding individual HP P6000 Command View componentsAny components that were not included during the initial installation of HP P6000 Command Viewcan be

7. On the host (application server), stop application I/O to presented virtual disks, if any.8. Unpresent the virtual disks from the hosts, if any.a.

NOTE: When you configure an FC application server in the VMDirectPath configuration,the HP MPIO DSM Manager software version is not detected after the

3 HP P6000 SmartStart conceptsStorage area networkA storage area network (SAN) provides centralized disk storage for your servers. The basiccomponents

a server allows you to manage multiple HP P6000 storage systems and all models. The sever onwhich HP P6000 Command View is installed is called a stora

© Copyright 2008 , 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.PConfidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or

The following is a brief summary of requirements for using HP P6000 SmartStart with an applicationserver. Detailed requirements are in HP SPOCK. See R

most HP P6000 models, the online disk type consists of Fibre Channel physical disks. In somemodels, the online disk type consists of Serial Attached S

RemarksEnhancedtypeBasictypeControllersoftwaredefault. HP P6000 Command View indicatesthe type.Disk are created as the basic type. HP P6000Command Vie

• Total capacity. Shows the formatted physical disk drive capacity of the disk group.• Allocated capacity. Shows the amount of disk group capacity tha

Disk group best practices• Use fewer groups. In most cases, one group for each disk type is best. This allows the storagesystem to write data simultan

Embedded Fibre Channel switch zoningHP P6000 SmartStart can be used with HP EVA4400 storage systems that contain embeddedswitches. See Embedded Fibre

To retrieve a license key, you will need to have the order number from your License EntitlementCertificate.Example — Generate New Licenses selectionEx

• HP P6000 SmartStart — Provides a DVD-based wizard that helps you install HP P6000Command View. The wizard also helps you configure, provision and mo

HP Insight Remote Support softwareHP strongly recommends that you install HP Insight Remote Support software to complete theinstallation or upgrade of

HP P6000 feature licensing is capacity-based and per storage system. See HP websites on howto locate more information.HP P6000 storage management serv

Contents1 Introduction...5What's new...

• DVD/CD drive, keyboard, video monitor, mouse (or KVM switch) for installing software fromDVDs or CDs• Network adapter• Supported Fibre Channel host

• Setting a disk-failure protection level (disk spares).• Setting the storage system date and time.More information is in the HP P6000 Command View So

Storage capacity FAQ• Does the HP P6000 Command View GUI show capacities as decimal-based or binary-basedvalues?Binary-based. HP P6000 Command View di

existing virtual disks. It does not include space on physical disks that are not members of adisk group.• Allocated capacity. The storage space that i

Thin provisioning is licensed per HP P6000 storage system. The license allows you to create anunlimited number of thin provisioned virtual disk, of an

Using HP P6000 SmartStart on Server 2, you would:• Create a 130 GB virtual disk and mount it as drive G.• Create a 30 GB virtual disk and mount it as

Vraid overviewVraid is an HP term for implementing RAID storage (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). Virtualdisks with HP Vraid use three key RAID

Disk groups with large physical disksIMPORTANT: If a disk group includes large physical disks (for example, 1 TB or larger), HPrecommends using Vraid6

virtual disk's disk group. Individual data blocks and copies of data blocks are written to differentphysical disks to provide redundancy.Vraid5A

remaining data chunks and the parity chunks. The data on a Vraid6 virtual disk will not be lost if2 physical disks in the disk group fail.Vraid6 39

Thin provisioning...33Virtual disks a

4 Support and other resourcesRelease historyHP P6000 SmartStart releases:New featuresVersionReleaseSee “What's New”4.32013 (Sep)• Software suppor

New featuresVersionReleaseservers in HP SmartStart EVA Storage version 3.3.3.22010 (Feb)• Linux application server support. Support is added forLinux

New featuresVersionReleasesoftware version 09003000 is added.Initial release1.02008 (Jan)Contacting HPHP technical supportFor worldwide technical supp

Websites• HP.comhttp://www.hp.com• HP storagehttp://www.hp.com/go/storage• HP manualshttp://www.hp.com/support/manuals• HP download drivers and softwa

GlossaryThis glossary provides the spelled-out form of technical abbreviations and acronymsfound in this document. The glossary does not include defin

IndexAadding HP P6000 Command View components, 15application servers, 19Ddisk groupsallocation , 23best practices and guidelines, 23concepts, 20disk t

1 IntroductionWhat's newHP P6000 SmartStart version 4.3 includes the following new or updated features and support,compared to version 4.2. See t

2 Working with HP P6000 SmartStartHP P6000 SmartStart featuresHP P6000 SmartStart is a DVD/CD-based wizard that helps you configure your HP P6000 SANa

• Initialize newly installed HP P6000 EVA storage systems◦ Check the initialization of storage systems or use the wizard to initialize a new storagesy

• This topic applies only to HP EVA4400 storage systems.• HP EVA4400 storage systems with embedded switches include two switches, each with itsown IP

8. To view status details, click the Status button. The Switch Health page appears.9. To view zoning information, in the Task pane, select Zone Admin.