topic Re: eva6000 management server in Disk Enclosures

eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:58:26 GMT

Hello,

customer has ordered an EVA6000. The EVA was shipped with a Proliant DL380 Storage Server. But we haven't found out, how to administrate from this storage server.

We did a workaround: There was an existing EVA with an original Storage Management Appliance (SMA). We made a SAN connection and updated the SMA with CommandView EVA 4.0. Then we were able to configure the EVA6000 from the SMA.

Has anyone a step by step description, how to configure the Proliant Storage Server for EVA6000 Administration?

Re: eva6000 management server

Uwe Zessin — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:14:45 GMT

The so-called 'Storage Server' is just a cheap NAS box; it cannot manage the EVA on its own as you have found out ;-)

You just need to install the necessary fibre channel drivers and CV-EVA on the NAS box to be able to manage the EVA.

Don't forget to upgrade the adapter's port driver on the SMA if you haven't done already:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/softwaredrivers/managementappliance/emulexportdriver.html

Re: eva6000 management server

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:18:20 GMT

Hi,
Is not an initial installation/configuration by HP included in the EVA6000 (as for EVA3000/5000). I assume that configuration of the management server is a part of that.

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:09:00 GMT

Uwe,

do we need to install storage management appliance software v2.1?

Re: eva6000 management server

Steven Clementi — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:17:42 GMT

Armulf:

On a stand alone server, you only need Command View EVA 4.x.

You do not need SMA 2.1. The 2.1 software is only for your SAN Management Appliance. If you plan on keeping the SMA, and your not at 2.1, then I would probably upgrade it. Otherwise, your new Storage Server, with Command View EVA 4.x should be enough.

Steven

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:23:01 GMT

OK.

Do we need to install special HSV200 Drivers?

Re: eva6000 management server

Steven Clementi — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:37:19 GMT

All you should need is the latest driver package. If you have qlogic cards, then I believe the latest SCSIport driver is 9.0.2.11.

For Emulex cards, 5-5.20a9 is the latest.

One of these driver packages should be all you need as they have all the necessary inf files for Storageworks Fibre Storage Arrays.

I have 3 EVA 6000's and all I install on my servers and my Management box is these drivers, Full Featured MPIO and SANSurfer(Qlogic Utility)

Steven

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:00:31 GMT

Installed the Emulex Driver Package and CV EVA 4.0. But:
There are 4 HSV200 Devices in the Windows Device Manager, which have no driver.
The CV EVA agent does not start.
nsaserver.exe reports an entry in the windows event viewer.
Any ideas?

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:12:05 GMT

We've tried the emulex drivers 5.2.30.2 (HP site) and 5.5.20.9 (latest driver from Emulex) - no success.

There are some other ProLiants connected to the EVA6000:
DL380 Win2k3 Server Standard, 2x Emulex HBA with 5-5.10a10, MPIO installed. Server has access to LUNs from the EVA6000.
We've installed CV EVA 4.0 on one of these servers and started the System Management Homepage. Under "Other Agents" there is no
CommandView EVA icon. Reason: CV EVA Agent does not start. Manual start of the agent does not work. There is an entry in the windows event log: nsaserver.exe could not be started. This is the same error as on the ProLiant Storage Server.
Where is the crux?

Re: eva6000 management server

Mohanasundaram_1 — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:39:00 GMT

Hi Arnulf,

It will be a good idea to check the COmmandview EVA 4.0 installation guide if you are meeting the pre-requisites for this installation.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&locale=en_US&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&
prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=471497

In your case, I feel the required Java version is not in place. But check this out.

The Windows 2003 OS need to be Enterprise edition.

The browser version, Java version and other required products are mentioned in this guide.

Please let us know if this helps.

WIth regards,
Mohan.

Re: eva6000 management server

Uwe Zessin — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:47:53 GMT

CV-EVA V4.0 is supported on a Windows 2003 Standard Edition server - see the compatibility reference (T3724-96004, page 3).

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:32:37 GMT

Today I looked at an original SMA connected to an EVA5000.
I opened Windows Device Manager and there were no HSV controller entries!
(In our case we have 4 unclaimed hsv200 entries, like i mentioned beforehand.)
The Emulex HBAs are shown as
"Emulex LightPulse - Fabric - No Automap of SCSI Devices".
Is perhaps "automap=no" the solution???
(Can't try it at this moment.)

Re: eva6000 management server

Uwe Zessin — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:19:40 GMT

A Storage Management Appliance uses a different driver than a general purpose server.

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:37:12 GMT

Problem solved !!!

All Proliants, connected to the SAN had TCP/IP configured, but were not connected to the LAN.

After plugging in a LAN-cable, the CommandView EVA agent started immediately.

Re: eva6000 management server

Raj D. — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:57:36 GMT

Hi Arnulf ,

Dont forget to assign your valuable points to the people who tried to help..

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: eva6000 management server

Arnulf Gercke — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:21:20 GMT

Thanks to all of you!