HP StorageWorks 4/16 HP StorageWorks DC and DC04 SAN Backbone Director Switche - Page 24
High availability, Reliability, Serviceability
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High availability The following features contribute to the DC SAN Director high-availability design: • Redundant, hot-swappable blades and FRUs • Enhanced data integrity on all data paths • Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) re-routing around failed links • Integration with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) managers • Automatic CP failover • Non-disruptive "hot" software code loads and activation • Easy configuration, save, and restore • Hot-swappable World Wide Name (WWN) cards The high-availability software architecture of the DC SAN Director provides a common framework for all applications that reside on the system, allowing global and local states to be maintained through any component failure. High-availability elements consist of the High Availability Manager, the heartbeat, the fault/health framework, the replicated database, initialization, and software upgrade. The High Availability Manager controls access to the standby CP blade, facilitates software upgrades, prevents extraneous switchover activity, closes and flushes streams, provides flow control and message buffering, and supports a centralized active and standby state. Reliability The DC SAN Director uses the following error detection and correction mechanisms to ensure reliability of data: • Data is protected by the Error Detection and Correction mechanism, which checks for encoder errors and fault isolation (EDFI), such as cyclic redundancy checking (CRC), parity checking, checksum, and illegal address checking • Power-on self-test (POST) • Dual CP Blades that enable hot, non-disruptive fast firmware upgrades • Each CP Blade contains one serial port and two Ethernet ports, for management and for service. Offline CP Blade diagnostics and remote diagnostics simplify troubleshooting. The standby CP Blade monitors diagnostics to ensure it is operational, in case a failover is required. • Bus monitoring and control of blades and other FRUs Serviceability The DC SAN Director provides the following features to enhance and ensure serviceability: • Modular design with hot-swappable components • Flash memory that stores two firmware images per CP Blade • USB port on CP blades for all tasks that formerly required an FTP/SCP server, including software and firmware upgrades • Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM), containing the serial number, serial number, revision information, and part number information • Background health-check daemon • Memory scrubber, self test, and bus ping to determine if a bus is not functioning • RASlog messages 24 HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Overview