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Miscellaneous Planning and Procedures

Migrating Windows 2003 drivers from SCSI to STOR

As of April 2006, STORPort has been fully adopted by third-party

software and tape vendors and EMC is proceeding towards sole

STORPort support under Windows 2003. Adding to the technical

benefits of STORPort, phasing-out SCSI miniport on Windows 2003

will provide better coordination of driver version support from

OEMs. STORPort will be the common driver platform for all server

and storage vendors to provide the customer with compatible

solutions.

In the April 2006 EMC Support Matrix (ESM), EMC will make SCSI

driver releases for Windows 2003 x86 from Emulex frozen as the last

supported Windows 2003 SCSI versions. Once this end-of-life (EOL)

is in effect, new installs will still be permitted with the SCSI drivers

for three months, but EMC encourages customers to use STORPort

instead. Three months after the EOL (after the June ESM) EMC will

make these Windows 2003 SCSI versions EOL. Upon EOL, starting

with the July ESM, the Windows 2003 SCSI versions will no longer be

listed and will not be supported for new installations. Existing

customers who have Windows 2003 SCSI already installed will be

supported, and any fix or MS HCL support will likely require an

upgrade to STORPort. Windows 2000 will continue to use SCSI

drivers as the only option.

What to expect when moving from SCSI miniport/full port drivers to

STORPort drivers

In STORPort drivers, functions or settings that users may have set

may no longer be available or may be accessed differently than in the

past. In particular, the Emulex full port driver had many settings

available in the ELXCFG.EXE configuration utility which are not

available in miniport drivers. These are now controlled by the OS.

EMC has always provided standard settings which were accessible

via driver configuration utilities. For STORPort drivers, EMC will

require that the default settings for STORPort drivers be used unless

otherwise instructed. Configuration utilities for STORPort that run

under Windows (HBAnyware as well as the Emulex Autopilot

installation kit) will allow access to settings for the driver that may be

changed via the utility if necessary.

If persistent target bindings were in use with the Emulex full port

driver, and wish to be carried over to the STORPort driver, a special

migration tool available from Emulex is required to transfer those

settings. Once the migration tool has been run, the STORPort driver

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