IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition Adds Support for the Hewlett Packard (HP) XP12000 and XP24000

 IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition Adds Support for the Hewlett Packard (HP) XP12000 and XP24000 

November 19, 2011

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition* is adding support for the Hewlett Packard (HP) XP12000 and XP24000.

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition now supports the High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) capabilities of the HP XP12000 and XP24000 Disk Arrays with synchronous and asynchronous replication.

Support is available for both FC-attach and NPIV.Please refer to the following information for support details.

Testing was performed with the following levels:

Clients are advised to obtain the latest available service updates from IBM and HP.

The following HP software and microcode were used as part of the testing:

1. HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software (no version needed)

2. HP RAID Manager: 1.25.11

3. XP 24000 Microcode: 60-08-08-00/00

4. XP 12000 Microcode: 50-09-98-00/08

5. MPIO: MPIO ODM (5403) devices.fcp.disk.HP.xparray.mpio.rte 5.4.0.3

IBM Service can be obtained from the IBM Electronic Fix Distribution site at:

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

PowerHA SystemMirror updates can be obtained from:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/hacmp/home.html

For questions or concerns, please send a note to HA Feedback at:

HA Solutions Feedback/Poughkeepsie/IBM or hafeedbk@us.ibm.com 

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