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Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide
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Preface

1.  Product Overview

2.  Fibre Channel Configuration Overview

3.  Administering Multipathing Devices Through mpathadm Commands

4.  Configuring Multipathing Software

5.  Configuring SAN Devices

6.  Configuring SAS Domains

7.  Configuring IPFC SAN Devices

8.  Solaris 10 10/08 x86/x64 Fibre Channel Operating System Booting Procedure

9.  Persistent Binding for Tape Devices

A.  Manual Configuration for Fabric-Connected Devices

Manual Configuration

To Configure Manually

Fabric Device Node Configuration

Ensuring That LUN Level Information Is Visible

To Ensure LUN Level Information is Visible

To Detect Fabric Devices Visible on a Host

Configuring Device Nodes Without Multipathing Enabled

To Configure an Individual Device Without Multipathing

To Configure Multiple Devices Without Multipathing

Configuring Device Nodes With Solaris Multipathing Software Enabled

To Configure Individual Devices With Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager Software

To Configure Multiple Devices With Multipathing

Unconfiguring Fabric Devices

Unconfiguring a Fabric Device

To Unconfigure a Fabric Device

To Unconfigure All Fabric Devices on a Fabric-Connected Host Port

To Unconfigure a Fabric Device Associated With Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager Multipathing-Enabled Devices

To Unconfigure One Path to a Multipathing Device

To Unconfigure All Fabric-Connected Devices With Multipathing Enabled

B.  Supported FC-HBA API

C.  Multipathing Troubleshooting

Index

To Unconfigure One Path to a Multipathing Device

In contrast to the procedure in the preceding section, this procedure shows how to unconfigure one device associated with c2::50020f2300006107 and leave the other device, 50020f2300006077, configured. Only devices on a fabric-connected host port can be unconfigured through the cfgadm unconfigure command.

  1. Log in as root (su - root)..
  2. Identify the Ap_Id of the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software device to be unconfigured.
    # cfgadm -al
    Ap_Id                 Type       Receptacle   Occupant    Condition
    c0                   fc-fabric   connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f23000063a9 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c1                   fc-private  connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708b69c32b disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708ba7d832 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c2                   fc-fabric   connected    configured   unknown
    c2::50020f2300005f24 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c2::50020f2300006107 disk        connected    configured   unknown

    In this example, c0::50020f2300006077 and c2::50020f2300006107 Ap_Ids represent different port WWNs for the same device.

  3. Unconfigure the Ap_Id associated with the device.

    Note - If the Ap_Id represents the last configured path to the device, stop all activity to the path and unmount any file systems on it. If the multipathing device is under any volume manager’s control, see the documentation for your volume manager for maintaining the fabric device.


    In the example that follows, the path represented as c2::50020f2300006107 is unconfigured, and c0::50020f2300006077 remains configured to show how you can unconfigure just one of multiple paths for a multipathing device.

    # cfgadm -c unconfigure c2::50020f2300006107
  4. Verify that the selected path c2::50020f2300006107 is unconfigured.
    # cfgadm-al
    Ap_Id                Type       Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
    c0                   fc-fabric  connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077 disk       connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f23000063a9 disk       connected    configured   unknown
    c1                   fc-private connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708b69c32b disk       connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708ba7d832 disk       connected    configured   unknown
    c2                   fc-fabric  connected    configured   unknown
    c2::50020f2300005f24 disk       connected    configured   unknown
    c2::50020f2300006107 disk       connected    unconfigured unknown

    The devices associated with that Ap_Id are still available to a host using the Solaris 10 OS through the other path, represented by c0::50020f2300006077. A device can be connected to multiple Ap_Ids and an Ap_Id can be connected to multiple devices.

    /dev/rdsk/c6t60020F20000061073AC8B52D000B74A3d0s2
    and
    /dev/rdsk/c6t60020F20000061073AC8B4C50004ED3Ad0s2