HP (Hewlett-Packard) AA-RW7CE-TE manual

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    HP St or age W or ks MP xIO f or Sun S olar is appli catio n n otes P art number: AA-RW7CE-TE Thir d edition : December 2006[...]

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    Legal and notice information © Copy r ight 200 5-2006 Hew lett-P ack ar d Dev elop ment Compan y , L.P . Hew lett-P ack ar d Compan y mak es no w arr ant y of an y kind with r egard to this mater ial , incl uding, but not limited to , the impli ed war r anties of mer chantability and fi tness f or a partic ular purpos e . He wlett-P ack ard shall[...]

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    About this doc ument This section d escr ibes th e follo wing topics: • Ap pl ica tio n notes in formation • I ntended audi ence • Other doc umentation Appli cati on note s inf or matio n The se appli cation not es desc ribe the follo wing: • MPxIO o v erv ie w ,p a g e3 • New f eatur es , page 3 • Su pported har d war e and softwar e ,[...]

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    NO TE: MPxIO is not sup ported on ve rsi ons of t he EV A3000 /5000 pr i or to 4. 00 4. Supported har dw ar e and so ftwar e Ta b l e 1 descr ibes supported hardw are and softwar e. T able 1 Supported har dw are and softw are Component V ersion Oper ating s y stem S o l a r i s8 ,9 ,1 0( S P A R C ) 1 Sun native adapter s SG-XPCI1FC-QF2 (X6 7 6 7A)[...]

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    Supported multi pathing combinati ons The c om bi na t io no fM P x I Oa n dS e c u r eP a t ho nt h es a m es e r v e rc a no n l yb es u p p o r t e di fF C A 2 2 5 7 Pi s used f or Sec ure P ath and Sun nativ e or Emule x adapter s are u sed f or MPxIO . T o vi e w mor e multipathing combin ati ons suppor ted b y MPxIO , go to h ttp ://ww w .hp [...]

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    Co n fi gur e and v er ify th e host Ve r i f y i n g c o n fi gur ation settings V erify that all paths to the stor age s ys tem ar e pr esent w ith cfgadm -al command. T o display the L UNs con fi gur e d to eac h path, e xec ute cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev a ss h o w ni nt h ee x a m p l eb e l o w . The f ollo w ing e x amples ar e w ith 4 pa[...]

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    NO TE: Using the option –o show_FCP_dev coul d r e sult in the ou tpu t of t he cfgadm command t o displ a y th e T y pe array-ctrl as unco n fi gured. This i s not a pr oblem. (Se e ex ample below) . # cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition c2 fc-fabric connected configured unknown c2::50001fe1002709f8,0 array-ctrl [...]

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    5. F or all Solar is r eleases on SP ARC, chec k the multi-pathing information f or all L UN s ( fi rst ex ampl e) and either f or a gi v en disk/L UN or for the arr ay WWN or a por t WWN. T he multipathing infor mation is alr eady available although MPxIO has not yet been enabled: # luxadm probe No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es Found [...]

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    May 18 15:10:30 simonb Create devinfo failed. Enabling MP xIO To e n a b l e M P x I O for HP st or age de v ice s, the appr opriat e inf ormati on f or device-type-scsi- options-list n eed to be added in the /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf fi le. 1. Use a te xt edit or to change the con fi gur ation fi le . F or example: # vi /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.c[...]

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    V er if y the MP xIO con fi gur ation After t he sy ste m has rebooted , use the format or luxadm command to ver if y that the MPxIO enablement has been successful . NO TE: In the format or luxadm output , controller s c2 and c3 no longer show up . A single, virtual controller path such as c 4 now displays the MPxIO– con fi gur ed L UNs. The cf[...]

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    Class primary State ONLINE Controller /devices/pci@1f,4000/lpfc@5/fp@0,0 Device Address 50001fe1002709f9,2 Host controller port WWN 10000000c93d5cee Class primary State ONLINE Controller /devices/pci@1f,4000/lpfc@5/fp@0,0 Device Address 50001fe1002709fd,2 Host controller port WWN 10000000c93d5cee Class primary State ONLINE ... b. F or S olar is 1 0[...]