HP SR2122-2 User's Manual
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1. Manager on XP and VA is not supported The MSA1000 is not supported with Secure Path for Windows SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes 9 SR2122 2 configuration rules Storage array rules Without HP Secure Path the Enterprise Virtual Array is supported with the SR2122 2 accessing only one EVA controller port This will disable controller failover protection The SR2122 2 fibre channel ports appear as host bus adapters to the Fibre Channel switches and to all storage arrays Fibre Channel switch fabric rules The SR2122 2 should only be zoned with the storage devices that it will access Zoning the SR2122 2 with other servers is not supported Disable useBport when connecting the SR2122 2 to C series switches using MDS switch firmware v2 01b or later Disable useBport when connecting the SR2122 2 to B series switches running switch firmware 3 2 x or 4 4 x or later Enable useBport for switches running other firmware versions Management software rules OVSAM support is limited to property support only It will identify the device and by clicking on it one can launch the device embedded web server interface or telnet A device specific plug in for the SR2122 2 is available on the OVSAM Website CIM 7 Supports the SR2122 s SNMP management capabilities Management of the storage arrays through the SR2122 2 is not supported Please use the recommended application element manager to configure the storage array Updates Fixes f2. R_RDY mode sends ELP with Flow Control Mode 02 and enables connectivity with WAN gateway products If a port is ISL R_RDY mode enabled it can only receive ELP with Flow Control Mode 02 ELP with Flow Control Mode 01 segments the fabric This mode cannot detect the PID format of connected ports If the PID formats for two ISL R_RDY mode ports are not the same zoning drops frames This feature is persistent across reboots and does not require a license key Use the portCf gShow command to view whether ISL R_RDY mode is enabled on a port The switch ports now connected to the Fibre Channel ports of the SR2122 2 must have ISL R_RDY mode enabled This is accomplished with the following switch CLI command portcfgislmode slotnumber portnumber mode slotnumber Specify the slot number for a B Series director For all other switches this operand is not required The slot number must be followed by a slash and the port number so that each port is represented by both slot number 1 through 4 or 7 through 10 and port number 0 through 15 The B series Director has a total of 10 slots Slot numbers 5 and 6 are control processor cards slots 1 through 4 and 7 through 10 are port cards On each port card there are 16 ports counted from the bottom numbered 0 to 15 portnumber Specify a port number Valid values for port number vary depending on the switch type This operand is required mode Specify 1 to enable ISL R_RDY mode Spe
3. Release Notes hp StorageWorks SR2 122 2 IP Storage Router Product Version 3 4 5b Fourth Edition March 2005 Part Number AA RV20C TE These release notes are for the HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router running firmware version 3 4 56 and provides important information not covered in other documentation For the latest version of these Release Notes and other IP storage router documentation access the HP storage web site at http www hp com country us eng prodserv storage html ra invent Copyright 2004 2005 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P Hewlett Packard Company makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose Hewlett Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of this material This document contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright No part of this document may be photocopied reproduced or translated into another language without the prior written consent of Hewlett Packard The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additio
4. cify 0 to disable ISL R_RDY mode This operand is required RA MA8000 ESA EMA12000 LUNs are initially passed to the SR2122 2 with the offset included in the LUN numbering When LUNs are first presented to the SR2122 2 from an RA MA8000 ESA EMA12000 a Show Devices issued on the SR2122 2 may show the LUNs with the offset number included SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes 11 Known problems For example if the offset for the SR2122 2 connection is 80 and LUNs 81 and 82 are presented to the SR2122 2 then they may appear on the SR2122 2 as LUN 81 and 82 for the controller A reboot of the SR2122 2 will set them correctly to LUN 1 and LUN 2 Ports FC1 and FC2 are set to Loop Preferred by default During the initial setup of the SR2122 2 the user is asked to specify whether the Fibre Channel ports are connected to an Fibre Channel hub or Fibre Channel switch Although switch is the only supported option the Fibre Channel ports are set to Loop Preferred To reset the Fibre Channel ports to the correct setting Point to Point the user may use the Configuration Tab in the SR2122 2 GUI or the SR2122 2 CLI command SR2122 gt Interface FC1 Topology ptp iSCSI CRC support The iSCSI CRC feature is not supported with Windows 2000 Windows 2003 and Red Hat Linux The iSCSI CRC feature is supported for HP UX 12 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes
5. nal warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Compaq Computer Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Company Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated Intel and Celeron are U S registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries and are used under license Intel ltanium Processor Family is a trademark in the U S and other countries and is used under license Microsoft MS DOS MS Windows Windows and Windows NT are U S registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group Hewlett Packard Company shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein 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 for such products Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty Printed in U S A SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes Fourth Edition March 2005 Part Number AA RV20C TE 2 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes About this document About this document This section describes the content reflected in this document including Release n
6. or this release of firmware Fixes include Memory mbuf leak during handling of Async event RX_LR during handling of FCIP link failure A memory leak and potential router crash would occur because of a mishandling of a link failure during an unstable FCIP connection This problem would never appear during normal FCIP operations and is fixed in this release An SR2122 2 would panic when a standard MIB II polling engine such as the HP OpenView Network Node Manager attempted to SNMP poll the SR2122 2 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes Known problems Known problems C series MDS v2 01b switch firmware requirements m For iSCSI with C Series switches the Fibre Channel port on the C series switch that connects to the SR2122 2 must be set to FL Port mode if using MDS v2 01b or later switch firmware m For FCIP with C Series switches the SR2122 2 must be configured for useBport disabled if using MDS v2 01b or later switch FW Refer to page 62 of the HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Getting Started Guide for more information ISL loss can result when the SR2122 2 is configured as FCIP and used to extend B series switches upgraded to firmware 3 2 x or 4 4 x When the SR2122 2 is used to extend a fabric between two B series switches the ISL may segment due to a switch firmware upgrade The new firmware is now aware of SAN extension gateways such as the SR2122 2 and can now enable ISL R_RDY mode on a port ISL
7. otes information page 3 Intended audience page 3 Other SR2122 2 IP Storage Router documentation page 3 Release notes information These Release Notes cover the following major topics Overview page 4 Identifying the SR2122 2 Version Level page 5 Identifying the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator version page 6 Identifying the HP Windows iSCSI driver version level page 6 Identifying the Linux Red Hat iSCSI driver version level page 7 SR2122 2 software and iSCSI driver updates page 7 Hardware and software support page 8 SR2122 2 configuration rules page 9 Known problems page 11 Intended audience This document is intended for customers who purchased the SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Other SR2122 2 IP Storage Router documentation The SR2122 2 IP Storage Router kit also includes HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router User Guide HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Command Line Interface Reference Guide HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Rack Mount Template HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Getting Started Guide web only HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Product Support Tables web only Additional documentation including white papers and best practices documents are available via the HP web site at http www hp com SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes 3 Overview Overview These release notes are for the HP Storageworks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router running firmware
8. rge net projects linuxiscsi For Microsoft s iSCSI initiator driver refer to the Microsoft website SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes 7 Hardware and software support Hardware and software support Refer to the R2122 2 IP Storage Router Product Support Tables for the latest hardware and software support information The Tables are available at http h1 8000 www 1 hp com products storageworks san documentation html Network interface controller NIC hardware support The following Network Interface Controllers are supported HP UX All NICs supported by HP UX Microsoft Windows All GbE NICS supported by HP for Windows Red Hat Linux All GbE NICS supported by HP for Red Hat Linux Operating system software support The following operating system software versions are supported with the SR2122 2 with iSCSI HP UX 11i v1 HP UX 11i v2 Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2 with either Microsoft hotfix Q302895 or Q248720 and Microsoft hotfix Q318271 SP3 Red Hat Advanced Server 2 1 Windows 2003 Refer to the HP StorageWorks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Product Support Tables for supported operating system software versions with the SR2122 2 and FCIP This document is available at http h1 8000 www 1 hp com products storageworks san documentation html Compaq Network Teaming software support Compaq Network Teaming is supported on the Windows operating system SR2122 2 management software support The follo
9. tus ReLogin ReScan Target Settings Global Settings Boot Type Normal Early Boot Figure 1 iSCSI Driver Version The Windows iSCSI driver version 3 1 4 will appear in the lower left hand corner 6 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes Identifying the Linux Red Hat iSCSI driver version level Identifying the Linux Red Hat iSCSI driver version level To verify the iSCSI driver on a Linux Red Hat host type the following command cat proc scsi iscsi 0O grep iSCSI driver Version The resulting display lists the software version level iSCSI driver version 3 4 1 20 Oct 2002 SR2122 2 software and iSCSI driver updates To view the latest version of SR2122 2 software or Windows iSCSI drivers please see the SR2122 2 web site htto www hp com support iprouter For the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator supporting patches and other driver related information are maintained in Release Notes To access the Release Notes 1 Goto the URL www docs ho com 2 Click on Networking and Communications 3 Click on iSCSI SCSI over TCP IP 4 Click on the Release Note link for the appropriate version of HP UX To download the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator 1 Goto the URL www sottware hp com 2 Click on HP UX 11i operating environment 3 Click on iSCSI Software Initiator To view the latest Linux drivers for the HP SR2122 2 iSCSI router please refer to the following web site http sourcefo
10. version 3 4 5b This document provides important information that is not covered in other documentation Important Read this entire document before installing and configuring the HP Storageworks SR2122 2 IP Storage Router 4 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes Identifying the SR2122 2 Version Level Identifying the SR2122 2 Version Level You can determine the SR2122 2 software version level by typing the following command at the SR2122 2 CLI prompt SR2122 2 sho version The resulting display lists the software version level Hewlett Packard SR2122 Storage Router CLI Version iSCSI Version System Bootstrap Operating System Application Web Server OpenSSH OpenSSL Zlib 2 1 0 2 Min Max 3 4 5b K9 3 4 5b K9 3 4 5b K9 R6_1_0 3 4p1 0 9 6e 1 1 4 Copyright c 1994 2003 Hewlett Packard Company SR2122 2 SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes Identifying the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator version Identifying the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator version To identify the HP UX iSCSI Software Initiator driver version enter the following command while logged in as root or superuser root gt usr sbin swlist iSCSI 00 Identifying the HP Windows iSCSI driver version level Open the hp iSCSI Config application found in the Windows Control Panel hp StorageWorks iSCSI config for Windows Target Host Names IP Addresses Add 33 33 33 101 Remove Sta
11. wing HP management software is supported Compaq Insite Manager 7 HP Openview Storage Manager The SR2122 2 management software is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems only SR2122 2 IP Storage Router Release Notes SR2122 2 configuration rules SR2122 2 configuration rules SR2122 2 router rules Table 1 SR2122 2 Router Rules Router Rule Maximum Maximum scsirouter instances per SR2122 2 Router 12 and per SR2122 2 Router Cluster Maximum iSCSI host connections per 32 SR2122 2 SCSI Router instance Maximum active logical units LUNs per SR2122 2 Router Maximum active targets per SR2212 2 Router m The SR2122 s 2 fibre Channel port FC2 is not supported as a redundant SAN port for FCI m Direct connect of the SR2122 2 Fibre Channel ports to any HP storage array is not supported m The MSR2122 Management port must be in a different subnet than the SCSI Router Instances iSCSI host rules Table 2 ISCSI Host Rules iSCSI Host Rule Operating System Maximum Maximum targets accessed per iSCSI host Windows 2000 120 Windows 2003 HP UX Linux Maximum active LUNs per target Windows 2000 120 Windows 2003 Linux HP UX Operation system rules Linux Clustering is not supported HP Secure Path for Linux with the MSA1000 RA MA8000 EMA ESA12000 and Enterprise Virtual Arrays is not supported m HP Auto Path for VA XP for HP UX Windows 2000 Windows 2003 and Linux are not supported HP Secure
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