Tony Howat wrote: > Q: How I get going with mounting a SAN partition using Sun Fiber card on > Solaris 8 running on a 280R? > > I need to be able to create and mount a newly created SAN partition on > an existing IBM FAST600 FC SAN system. > > We have an SG-XPCI2FC-QF2 2Gb PCI Dual FC Network Adapter, as > recommended by our suppliers for the purpose. My brain keeps telling me > we need the HBA version, but both Sun and our suppliers say this is > correct. > > Now, documentation is minimal to non existent. The manual for the card > covers installation and playing around with boot net. I started to think > I needed a HBA as I'd suspected in the first place, but looking at that > manual it's equally useless. Sun confirm the part should connect to the > SAN and allow me to mount partitions. > > Could someone point me at documentation which covers actually > configuring the card, any software installation, and using a SAN > partition under Solaris? > > So far I have got this far, working from the Sun StorEdge 2G FC PCI > Double Channel Network Adapter Network Installation Guide (816-5001-10): > > show-devs > /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4 > /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0 > /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk > /pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@2,1 > /pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@2 > > To me that looks like two cards - one being the on board controller on > the 280R and one being the add in card I'm trying to configure. > > I've tried Qlogic's drivers but they don't detect the card: > http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/816-5002-14.pdf > > Anyone got notes on this sort of thing? > > Any pointers welcome, I'm working utterly blind on this. > Thanks to Mark Wiederspahn, Mike Ekholm and Kevin Smith for their help. The procedure is this (MW): To start with, from this page is (http://www.sun.com/storage/san/) is a link to the sun drivers: http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=StoreEdgeSw-4.0-G-F&TransactionId=Try Download the "Install_it Script SAN 4.4.1, English" under optional products, and install that software. The sun drivers kind of suck because they require 10 packages and 15 patches to be applied in a specific order. The install_it script will install those packages/patches in that order. Once the products are installed, reboot and run cfgadm -al and see if you see your disk. #cfgadm -al Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown c0::dsk/c0t6d0 CD-ROM connected configured unknown c1 fc-private connected configured unknown c1::21000004cf6efe8d disk connected configured unknown c1::21000004cf6f1b1f disk connected configured unknown c2 scsi-bus connected configured unknown c2::rmt/0 tape connected configured unknown c3 fc-fabric connected configured unknown c3::200800a0b813180d disk connected configured unknown c3::210000e08b1014ba unknown connected unconfigured unknown c3::210000e08b102c41 unknown connected unconfigured unknown c3::210000e08b1071ba unknown connected unconfigured unknown c3::210000e08b10a241 unknown connected unconfigured unknown c3::210000e08b10e33c unknown connected unconfigured unknown c3::500308c13e646003 tape connected unconfigured unknown c4 fc connected unconfigured unknown usb0/1 unknown empty unconfigured ok usb0/2 unknown empty unconfigured ok usb0/3 unknown empty unconfigured ok usb0/4 unknown empty unconfigured ok (apologies for wrapping. the FC SAN stuff is on c3) If cfgadm sees your adapter/disk, run cfgadm -c (fiber_ctrl) to pickup the disk. (TH) Also add to /kernel/drv/sd.conf # # added for SAN # name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=1; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=2; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=3; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=4; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=5; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=7; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=8; name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=9; to scan the LUNs designated to SAN space. boot -r format will show : AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf6f1b1f,0 1. c1t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf6efe8d,0 2. c3t200800A0B813180Dd3 <IBM-1722-600-0520 cyl 51198 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64> /pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w200800a0b813180d,3 So, we're off. Now, in terms of sorting out multipathing I asked a second question to the list, about how to get multipathing working. The software I needed (Sun Traffic Manager) is already within the SAN package I installed earlier, so it is a matter of configuration. Thanks to Jochen who replied : 1. check with array vendor (IBM) if configuration is ok for STMS (or MPxIO, other name) 2. you need to edit /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf, mpxio is disabled by default. also you need to edit vendor/product there. look at the comments and watch the spaces, they need to be exactly as shown there. Use format and inq-command to find out vendor/product. 3. you will also want to add to /etc/system: set fp:fp_offline_ticker=15 set fp:fp_retry_count=2 with the default setting of these variables path failover takes 2 minutes, now its 45 seconds. 4. boot -r Your devices should show in format on new controller number with path /scsi_vhci/ssd@g012301230123... Richard Voss also suggested setting auto-failback="enable" in /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf After following these steps the SAN device now appears in format as : AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf6f1b1f,0 1. c1t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf6efe8d,0 2. c5t600A0B80001323B80000000040F2051Dd0 <IBM-1722-600-0520 cyl 51198 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64> /scsi_vhci/ssd@g600a0b80001323b80000000040f2051d ...and should multipath. -- Tony Howat UNIX Network Administrator University Of The Arts London _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jul 29 05:49:08 2004
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