HP 6400.8400 Enterprise Virtual Array - Manual (Page 131)

Limitations
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HP P6000 Continuous Access is not supported with single path configurations.
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Single path HBA server is not part of a cluster.
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Booting from the SAN is supported on single path HBA servers.
Figure 41 VMware configuration
5 SAN switch 1 1 Network interconnection
6 SAN switch 2 2 Single HBA server
7 Controller A 3 Dual HBA server
8 Controller B 4 Management server
Failure scenarios
HP-UX
Table 30 HP-UX failure scenarios
Failure effect Fault stimulus
Extremely critical event on UNIX. Can cause loss of system disk. Server failure (host power-cycled)
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Switch failure (SAN switch disabled)
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Controller failure
Short term: Data transfer stops. Possible I/O errors.
Long term: Job hangs, cannot umount disk, fsck failed, disk corrupted,
need mkfs disk. Controller restart
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