HP StorageWorks 4000 Compaq RAID Array 4000 Storage System: Deployment and Con - Page 1

White Paper July 1999 0206-0699 Prepared by Storage Products Division Compaq Computer Corporation Contents Fibre Channel Storage System to RAID Array 4000 ........3 The RA4000 Storage System......3 Fibre Channel Host Adapter ......3 Gigabit Interface Converters ......4 Fibre Channel Storage Hubs .....4 RAID Array 4000 5 RA4000 Controller 5 Deploying the RA4000 6 Upgrading from FCSS to RA4000 6 Configuration Scenarios 7 Single Server/Single Controller 8 Dual Servers/Single Controller 9 Single Server/Dual Controllers 10 Dual Servers/Dual Controllers 11 Firmware 12 Operating Systems Supported 12 Upgrading from Single Controller Solutions 13 Windows NT 4.0 Installation Instructions 13 NetWare Installation Instructions 13 RA4000 Configuration 14 Array Configuration Utility ........14 Fibre Fault Isolation Utility........15 Compaq Redundancy Manager (NT 16 Compaq RAID Array 4000 Storage System: Deployment and Configuration Abstract: As the performance of processors and peripherals improves and companies increasingly move to distributed architectures while consolidating servers, the company's administrators generate high-speed and data intensive network applications. As a result, interconnects between servers and the I/O devices they support have become a management bottleneck. Fibre Channel storage solutions shatter distance, connectivity, capacity, and bandwidth limitations of SCSI. Fibre Channel allows highly scalable, high-performance storage solutions for the most demanding applications. Compaq believes Fibre Channel is the best interconnect technology choice for future storage solutions and has developed the RAID Array 4000 (RA4000) Storage System, which is based on this technology. This paper describes how to: S Upgrade an existing single controller Fibre Channel Storage System to the dual controller RA4000 S Install an RA4000 with either single or dual controllers S Deploy full redundancy with either a Fibre Channel Storage System or an RA4000 For more information on Fibre Channel technology, go to http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/storage/fibre.html