Linux Multipathing for HP Storage
Key features
- Designed and tested for high-availability attached HP active/active arrays (MSA, EVA, XP) and HP servers and BladeSystems
- Open Source LightPulse HBA driver is included with the latest Red Hat EL 4 and SLES 9 and SLES 10 distributions
- Supports heterogeneous environments with HP arrays (with MultiPulse) and non-HP arrays (without MultiPulse)
- Dynamic no-reboot, no-rebuild LUN and target addition
- Support for up to 16 HBAs, up to 8 paths to each LUN /target
- Configurable "heartbeat" to monitor attachments and optimize failover
Key benefits
- Protect against multiple points of failure across a Fibre Channel network
- Monitor, detect and instantly reroute traffic across eight end-to-end data paths
- Automated or manual reinsertion into data path, instantaneously improving connectivity, bandwidth and availability
- Provide consistent bandwidth by using hot-standby adapters configured with
- MultiPulse software
- Add new storage arrays and LUNs with no down-time