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Technical white paper
HP Enterprise Virtual Array
Storage and VMware vSphere
4.x and 5.x configuration best
practices
Table of contents
Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4
The challenges ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Key concepts and features .......................................................................................................................................................... 4
ALUA compliance ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Configuring EVA arrays ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Using Command View EVA ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Running Command View EVA within a VM ........................................................................................................................... 7
Using the Storage Module for vCenter ................................................................................................................................. 8
Array hardware configuration and cabling ............................................................................................................................ 10
Disk group provisioning ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Formatted capacity ................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Sparing overhead and drive failure protection level ....................................................................................................... 13
Application-specific considerations .................................................................................................................................... 14
Storage optimization requirements ................................................................................................................................... 14
Vdisk provisioning ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16
iSCSI configuration ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Controller connections ........................................................................................................................................................... 20
Mezz: LUN groups and iSCSI targets ................................................................................................................................... 20
Front-end GbE and FC ports ................................................................................................................................................. 20
ESX connectivity to EVA iSCSI ............................................................................................................................................... 20
Implementing multi-pathing in vSphere 4.x and 5.x ........................................................................................................... 23
Best practices for I/O path policy selection ....................................................................................................................... 27
Configuring multi-pathing ......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Displaying the SATP list ......................................................................................................................................................... 29
Connecting to an active-active EVA array in vSphere 4.0, 4.1 and 5.x ........................................................................ 30
Caveats for connecting to vSphere 4.1 and 5.x ................................................................................................................ 31
Caveats for multi-pathing in vSphere 4.x/5.x ................................................................................................................... 32
Upgrading EVA microcode ..................................................................................................................................................... 34
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Strany 1 - Storage and VMware vSphere

Technical white paper HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices Table of contents Executive

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 10 Figure 2. The Storage m

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 11 The resulting topology

Strany 4 - Key concepts and features

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 12 In a direct-connect env

Strany 5 - ALUA compliance

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 13 Disk group provisionin

Strany 6 - Configuring EVA arrays

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 14 You can use Command Vie

Strany 7 - Using Command View EVA

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 15 HP defines three stora

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 16 Vdisk provisioning All

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 17 iSCSI configuration Th

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 18 Figure 9. HP EVA with M

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 19 Figure 10. HP EVA with

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 2 Overview of vSphere 4.x/

Strany 13 - Disk group provisioning

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 20 Controller connections

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 21 Figure 12 below, shows

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 22 Table 2. HP EVA 1GbE iS

Strany 16 - Vdisk provisioning

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 23 All the same facts li

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 24 The I/O path policies s

Strany 18 - • EVA Controllers

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 25 Implementing multi-pat

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 26 When configuring HP EVA

Strany 20 - Front-end GbE and FC ports

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 27 Figure 16. Fixed_AP us

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 28 • Multi-Pathing Plug-i

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 29 When a path failure oc

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 3 Appendix C: Balancing I

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 30 Connecting to an active

Strany 25 - • Configure the Vdisk

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 31 or the following comma

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 32 Use the following comma

Strany 27 - Configuring multi-pathing

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 33 Best practice for conf

Strany 28 - • SATP

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 34 Using third-party multi

Strany 29 - Displaying the SATP list

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 35 Using VMFS VMFS is a h

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 36 Figure 20. RDM datastor

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 37 • Vdisk size • Vdisk

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 38 The advantages of this

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 39 VMware has carried out

Strany 34 - Upgrading EVA microcode

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 4 Executive summary The HP

Strany 35 - Using RDM

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 40 Before enabling adaptiv

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 41 Monitoring EVA perform

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 42 Figure 22 shows a bette

Strany 38 - Aligning partitions

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 43 VMware vStorage API fo

Strany 39 - Using adaptive queuing

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 44 • Plugin-less deployme

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 45 Figure 23 below illust

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 46 Best practice for zeroi

Strany 42 - Optimizing I/O size

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 47 Table 10 provides the

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 48 Table 12 shows the ESXi

Strany 44 - • Plugin-less deployment

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 49 Best practice for spac

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 5 ALUA compliance All EVA

Strany 46 - VAAI operation concurrency

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 50 Table 13. Differences i

Strany 47 - ESX UNMAP support history

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 51 Table 14 shows the dif

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 52 How do I simplify stora

Strany 49 - UNMAP in ESXi 5.5

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 53 • When the EVA is in

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 54 Term Description EVA Th

Strany 51 - Summary of best practices

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 55 Appendix A: Using SSSU

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 56 Appendix B: Miscellaneo

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 57 If required, set the v

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 58 Figure C-2. I/O routes

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 59 Alternatively, you can

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 6 • Standby – The path to

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 60 Moving the chosen Vdisk

Strany 58 - Figure C-2. I/O routes

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 61 Validating the better

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 62 After the upgrade, all

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 63 By default, vSphere 4.

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 64 Component Description

Strany 62 - Sample configuration

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 65 • Pre-install the VMs

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 66 Figure E-4. Indicating

Strany 64 - Configuring the vSphere host

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 67 4. Select the desired

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 68 6. After the reboot, c

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 69 Configuring the VM Cav

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 7 Using Command View EVA

Strany 68 - Configuring the array

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 70 4. Select PCI Device a

Strany 69 - Configuring the VM

Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices For more information Data

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 8 Best practices for deplo

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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices 9 Figure 1. Storage summa

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