SMA Configuration Guidelines

Using Storage Area Manager in a Dual-Redundant Fabric Configuration

Storage Management Appliances are often deployed in dual-redundant Fibre Channel environments.

The Storage Area Manager software is compatible with dual redundancy.

Using dual-redundant Fibre Channel paths for storage management enables the SMA to have redundant control over the SAN, creating an environment with no single point of failure. In such a configuration, the SMA has two host bus adapters (HBAs), allowing greater ability to provide nonstop management control and monitoring of critical SAN devices.

Figure 4 shows two fabrics with fiber connections between the SMA, a host, switches, and storage devices, including:

■The SMA with two host bus adapters

■A storage host system on which you install the Storage Area Manager host agent software

■An HSG controller pair connected to the fabric through Ports 1 and 2 (top controller) and Ports 1 and 2 (bottom controller)

■An HSV controller pair connected to the fabric through Fabric Ports 1 and 2 (top controller) and Fabric Ports 1 and 2 (bottom controller)

Figure 4: Dual-redundant fabric configuration

For more information, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance Software

High Availability Application Notes, available at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/managementappliance/documentation.html.