HP XP7 Configuration Guide

To configure the FCA:
• Check with your HP representative to determine which non-Oracle branded FCAs are supported
by HP with the Oracle SAN driver Stack, and if a specific System Mode or Host Group Mode
setting is required for Oracle and non-Oracle branded FCAs.
• For Solaris 10, use the Oracle update manager to install the latest patches.
• To use Oracle StorEdge Traffic Manager (MPxIO)/Oracle Storage Multipathing, edit the driver
configuration file /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf to add the Vendor ID and Product ID
to the “device-type-scsi-options-list” parameter. See the Oracle StorEdge Traffic Manager
Software Installation and Configuration Guide or Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage
Multipathing Administration Guide, and HP MPxIO for Oracle Solaris Application Notes, for
further details.
• For Solaris 10/11
stmsboot -e (to enable MPxIO)
stmsboot -d (to disable MPxIO)
• For all Solaris releases, add the following lines:
device-type-scsi-options-list =
"HP OPEN", "symmetric-option";
symmetric-option = 0x1000000;
NOTE: There must be exactly 6 spaces between HP and OPEN.
• Instead of using the default round-robin algorithm, add the following lines in addition to the
previous lines for systems with a large amount of sequential I/O activity:
device-type-mpxio-options-list=
"device-type=HP OPEN", "load-balance-options=logical-block-options";
logical-block-options="load-balance=logical-block", "region-size=18";
NOTE: There must be exactly 6 spaces between HP and OPEN.
For further information see document IDs 76504 and 76505 at https://support.oracle.com
• For Solaris 10, use the stmsboot command which will perform the modifications and then
initiate a reboot.
Configuring Emulex FCAs with the lpfc driver
NOTE: The lpfc driver cannot be used with Oracle StorEdge Traffic Manager/Oracle Storage
VM Multipathing. Emulex does not support using both the lpfc driver and the emlxs driver (provided
with the Oracle SAN driver stack) concurrently. To use the emlxs driver, see “Configuring FCAs
with the Oracle SAN driver stack” (page 72).
To determine which Emulex FCAs and driver version HP supports with the lpfc driver, contact your
HP representative. The lpfc driver is not supported on x86 architecture. Configure Emulex FCAs
with the lpfc driver as follows:
• Ensure you have the latest supported version of the lpfc driver (available from http://
www.emulex.com).
• Edit the /kernel/drv/lpfc.conf driver configuration file to set up the FCA for a SAN
infrastructure:
topology = 2;
• If multiple FCAs and VxVM are used, adjust the following parameters to assure correct VxVM
behavior:
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HP XP7 Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	XP7
Category	Storage
Language	English