HP VMware VI Foundation Acceleration Kit License 460941-B21 Merkblatt

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460941-B21

Implementation of the XP CommandView AE
Suite and Host Agent on a Single Server or

within a VMware Virtual Partition

Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2

Target audience .................................................................................................................................. 2

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

XP CV AE single server configuration ..................................................................................................... 3

Components .................................................................................................................................... 3

Features not supported by this configuration........................................................................................ 4

Compatible features ......................................................................................................................... 4

Installation order.................................................................................................................................. 4

XP CV AE and VMware........................................................................................................................ 4

Single server configuration with VMware................................................................................................ 4

Single path configuration .................................................................................................................. 4

Multi-path configuration .................................................................................................................... 6

Appendix A—Considerations when using the XP CV AE host agent and XP RAID Manager with VMware ...... 7

Assigning storage volumes to the VMware server................................................................................. 7

VMware VMFS versus RDM (Raw Device Mapping) ............................................................................. 7

XP CV AE host agent ........................................................................................................................ 7

Appendix B—Assigning an XP raw device to a VM ................................................................................. 9

Provision the LUN............................................................................................................................. 9

VMware Infrastructure Client ............................................................................................................. 9

Appendix C—Resource requirements ................................................................................................... 18

XP CV AE server (Windows)............................................................................................................ 18

XP CV AE agent (Windows) ............................................................................................................ 18

XP RAID Manager .......................................................................................................................... 18

XP RAID Manager memory requirements........................................................................................... 18

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 19