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EMC Installation Roadmap for CX-Series and FC-Series Storage Systems
HP-UX Installation Checklist
PowerPath Checklist - Existing HP-UX Server and New Storage
System
Complete the tasks highlighted with grey in the checklist before the
service provider arrives.
Task
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1 Server
Install additional
HBAs
❑
If you need additional HBAs to provide more paths to the storage system,
install these HBAs.
CAUTION Do not connect cables to the HBAs until you are told to do so
later in this procedure.
HBA documentation
2 Server
Update Software
❑
If the following software is currently installed and not at the required
minimum revision (page 2-3), update it:
• HBA driver
• Navisphere Host Agent
• admsnap
HBA documentation
CX-Series Server
Software for HP-UX
installation guide
3 Storage System
Update softwar
e
❑
If currently installed storage-system software is not at the required
minimum revision (see page 2-3), update it.
CAUTION During the software update, hosts connected to the storage
system will lose access to data if they do not have failover software or if all
paths to an SP are down.
Navisphere Manager
administrator’s guide
and online help
4Server
Set HBA driver
parameters
❑
Make sure the HBA driver parameters are set to the values required for
CLARiiON and PowerPath.
CAUTION Using improper settings can cause erratic failover behavior, such
as greatly increased I/O delays.
HP-UX Host
connectivity guide and
HBA documentation
5Server
Set
storage-system
type
❑
Edit the Navisphere Host Agent configuration file agent.config to comment
the OptionsSupported Autotrespass entry as follows:
# OptionsSupported Autotrespass
The above entry will set the initiator type for the HBAs to no auto trespass
when they register with the storage system.
CX-Series Server
Software for HP-UX
Installation Guide
❑
Log in as root and restart the Navisphere Host Agent with the following
HP-UX commands:
/sbin/init.d/agent stop
/sbin/init.d/agent start