User manual HP STORAGEWORKS SECURE PATH FOR NOVELL NETWARE SOFTWARE STORAGEWORKS SECURE PATH V3.0C SERVICE PACK 2.1 FOR NETWARE AND NETWARE WORKGRO

[. . . ] The information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind and is subject to change without notice. The warranties for Hewlett-Packard Company products are set forth in the express limited warranty statements accompanying such products. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Secure Path 3. 0C Service Pack 2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition release notes Eleventh Edition (February 2005) Part Number: AA­RN73L­TE 2 Secure Path 3. 0C Service Pack 2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition release notes About this document About this document These release notes provide information for StorageWorks Secure Path 3. 0C SP2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition not available elsewhere in the product documentation, and takes precedent over all other sources. Individuals responsible for configuring, installing, and using this software should use this document. [. . . ] Therefore, do not use the same logical device name on different clusters. To ensure that no-single-point-of-failure is maintained throughout your Secure Path Storage System, only redundant RAID types should be configured. A single profile of SPM is capable of managing heterogeneous or homogeneous configurations of Novell NetWare and Windows systems. Clusters MUST be either Windows NT, Windows 2000, or NetWare. Install the modified SP Agent on Windows server systems in heterogeneous environments. If there are multiple volume labels, drive letters, or other identifiers associated with a LUN, the SPM precedes the device icon with the plus (+) box (this is true only if there are multiples of the specific identifier type currently Secure Path 3. 0C Service Pack 2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition release notes 7 Notes and corrections displayed for the LUN); clicking on the box causes a left-pane expansion under the LUN, showing a list of the multiple identifiers, with one entry per line (even for drive letters). Editing the startup. ncf file before Secure Path installation Before you perform the Secure Path installation, make sure you edit the startup. ncf file, and remove or comment out all occurrences of lines containing the following text: load QL2300 Novell NetWare operating systems When installing with the Secure Path 3. 0C CD-ROM, to specify a path name other than the default, perform the following procedure: 1. Under Product Options, choose Install product not listed. On the Install Product Not Listed screen, press F3. Enter the installation path in the following format: NWSPV30C: NetWare 5. The following message displays: NWCONFIG is loading another NLM. . . Note: Find a complete description of the Automatic Server Software Install procedure in the HP StorageWorks Secure Path 3. 0C for Novell NetWare Installation Guide. Path verification is defaulted to enabled for all Novell NetWare systems. Load distribution is not provided for Novell NetWare systems. Secure Path supports NetWare 5. 1, 6, and 6. 5. In cluster configurations, all servers must have the same version of cluster services and the latest service pack, if applicable. Do not unload the QL2300. HAM driver while running the Secure Path Agent. If the arrays become totally inaccessible, all servers in the cluster abend. Therefore, mirror your SBD partitions across storage devices during the cluster installation if you have two identical external storage devices. By Secure Path 3. 0C Service Pack 2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition release notes 8 Notes and corrections mirroring the SBD partitions, you can lose one array and still maintain the cluster connectivity. Refer to the NetWare documentation for more information. Novell NetWare does not currently support clusters in a mixed environment of NetWare 5. 1, 6, or 6. 5 servers. NetWare Cluster Server/Software (NWCS) issues a "heartbeat" every 10 seconds or so to make sure all the servers are still alive. If this "heartbeat" is not received in the appropriate amount of time, the cluster abends the server in question in an attempt to reestablish connections and also to prevent any file system corruption that can occur. [. . . ] For Novell NetWare single path configuration, maximum of 64 LUNs per storage subsystem. Supported storage system types Enterprise Virtual Array 3000 with VCS 3. 020 Enterprise Virtual Array 5000 with VCS 3. 020 Modular Smart Array 1000, controller version 4. 24 Modular Smart Array 1500, controller version 4. 82 HSG 80 with 8. 7 firmware and all updates Secure Path 3. 0C Service Pack 2. 1 for NetWare and NetWare Workgroup Edition release notes 15 Migrating from Secure Path 3. 0B to 3. 0C Migrating from Secure Path 3. 0B to 3. 0C Use the following procedure to migrate your storage systems from Secure Path 3. 0B to 3. 0C before installing 3. 0C SP2. 1 Note: Persian and Qlogic HBAs cannot coexist in a server running Secure Path. The system must be running Secure Path 3. 0B with all Persian HBAs, Secure Path 3. 0C with all Qlogic HBAs. 1. Make two backups off all storage devices. Using nwconfig, edit the Startup. ncf and Autoexec. ncf files to remove all lines installed by Secure Path 3. 0B. [. . . ]