About this document
This section describes the following topics:
• Application
notes information
• Intended audience
• Other do cumentation
Application notes information
These application notes describe the following:
•
MPxIO overview,page3
•
New features, page 3
• Supported hardware and software, page 4
• Preparing the host system, page 5
•
Configure and verify the host, page 6
•
Enabling MPxIO, page 9
•
Verify the MPxIO configuration, page 10
Intended audience
This document is intended for customers who ar e using Sun Solaris MPxIO with HP storage systems.
Other documentation
A complete library of related documentation is available at:
h
ttp://h18006.www 1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html.
For Solaris 8 & 9, the following documentation is available at h
ttp://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/
hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/SAN/san_soft ware/index.htm:
• Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4 Installation Guide
• Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4 Configuration Guide
• Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4.x Release Notes, including Sun StorEdge Traffic
Manager for the Solaris Operating System
• Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Installation and Configuration Guide For the Solaris Operating System
• Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4
For Solaris 10, the Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing Administration Guide is available at
h
ttp://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0139.
MPxIO overview
MPxI
O provides basic failover and load-balancing capability to HP StorageWorks EVA 3000/5000 V4,
EVA4
000/6000/8000, and the XP line of storage systems. Different storage devices can connect to the
same system. Failover to other storage devices is allowed.
New features
This release provides support for Sun Solaris MPxIO multipathing on EVA3000/5000 4.004 and
EVA4000/6000/8000 disk arrays.
MPxIO for Sun Solaris
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