MSA1000 & Server Failover

[sevi]

I’m looking for some help on setting up failover from an HP DL360 server to a MSA1000 SAN.

We have 2 switches in the MSA1000 and 2 HBA’s in the server with one HBA connected to each switch.

What I want is if one fibre connection is broken (or a HBA or switch to fail) then it to automatically use the other fibre.

I have Secure Path installed on the server, but cant figure out how to configure it. Can anyone help??

I’ve posted this in HP Disk and Raid also.

Cheers

 

[AndyPeck]

Sevi
I don’t think you have do to doing anything else with Secure Path to make it function, assuming it’s not working when you tested it I would look at using MPIO rather that Secure Path, as I believe HP are no longer selling SP and you can download the MPIO drivers from HP for free and very little configuration is required to get it to work.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...odTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=421492&taskId=135

P.S Make sure the HBA drivers are using the correct card drivers (probably Qlogic) and not the MS generic HBA driver, this has caused me a few setup problems before.