The VA7100 is supported on a SAN using fc8b switches (has boot support)
with the following firmware levels:

CV-SDM = 1.06
VA FW  = HP18
fc8b   = 3.02k

MPE/iX 7.5 + MPEMXD9A (required) + PP1 (recommended)

Failover/iX is not currently supported but there are two beta test patches
you can order from HP that may give you this functionality. It will not
be "officialy" supported until they go general release. Patches are
MPEMXH5C and MPEMXG9C.

The easiest way to INSTALL onto a native fiber LDEV1 is to direct connect
first rather than going through the FC switch. Refer to the following
document
on how to do this:

http://jazz.external.hp.com/mpeha/howto/fc_ldev_one.html

Good Luck and let us know how it goes.

Guy Paul
HP - Storage Management Team





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Lheureux [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:07 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Poor man's HA HPe3000 A500 setup
>
>
> Hi Friends,
>
> I'm trying to setup the following configuration :
>
> HPe3000 A500 (1-way likely), 4 I/O slots
> 2 A6795A FC2 Fibre Channel boards
> No internal disks
> MPE/iX 7.5, possibly PP1 (other patches may be needed)
>
> Hooked to a SAN by each of the FC board, each FC card to a
> different F8b switch
>
> 2 VA7100s hooked to the same SAN
>
> Proposed configuration :
>
> System volume set on remote (other 'end' of the SAN) VA7100,
> secured by Raid 0/1 (already existing redundancy group on the
> VA7100, disks to be added for extra space). Needs boot
> support (obviously), and needs a way to configure the LDEV 1
> on the VA7100 BEFORE installing.
>
> User volume set secured by disk mirroring, one half of the
> mirrored set on each VA7100 (one in the local room, the other
> one in the remote room)
>
> Current CV-SDM : 1.04 (1.06 may be needed)
> Current VA7100 firmware : HP15 (HP18 may be needed)
>
> What do you think ? Is the configuration workable ? Can it be
> supported by HP ? Can it be included into an SCS (Storage
> Critical Service) type of contract (customer already has the
> service) ? Any better design ideas ? Suggestions ?
>
> If any help, I will be able to provide a Visio drawing that
> better explains the configuration.
>
> TIA,
> Christian Lheureux
>
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