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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 Configure Multiple Devices Without Multipathing

Make sure you first identify the devices visible to the host with the procedure Ensuring That LUN Level Information Is Visible. This procedure describes how to configure all unconfigured fabric devices that are attached to a fabric-connected host port. The port used as an example is c0.

  1. Log in as root (su - root).
  2. Identify the devices to be configured.
    # cfgadm -al
    Ap_Id                Type        Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
    c0                   fc-fabric   connected    unconfigured unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077 disk        connected    unconfigured unknown
    c0::50020f23000063a9 disk        connected    unconfigured unknown
    c0::50020f2300005f24 disk        connected    unconfigured unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107 disk        connected    unconfigured unknown
    c1                   fc-private  connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708b69c32b disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708ba7d832 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708b8d45f2 disk        connected    configured   unknown
    c1::220203708b9b20b2 disk        connected    configured   unknown
  3. Configure all of the unconfigured devices on the selected port.
    # cfgadm -c configure c0

    Note - This operation repeats the configure operation of an individual device for all the devices on c0. This can be time consuming if the number of devices on c0 is large.


  4. Verify that all devices on c0 are configured.
    # 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
    c0::50020f2300005f24 disk        connected   configured  unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107 disk        connected   configured  unknown
    c1                   fc-private  connected   configured  unknown
    c1::220203708b69c32b disk        connected   configured  unknown
    c1::220203708ba7d832 disk        connected   configured  unknown
    c1::220203708b8d45f2 disk        connected   configured  unknown
    c1::220203708b9b20b2 disk        connected   configured  unknown
  5. Use the show_SCSI_LUN command to display FCP SCSI LUN information for multi-LUN SCSI devices.

    The following code example shows that the physical devices represented by c0::50020f2300006077 and c0::50020f2300006107 each have four LUNs configured. The physical devices represented by c0::50020f23000063a9 and c0::50020f2300005f24 each have two LUNs configured.

    # cfgadm -al -o show_SCSI_LUN c0
    Ap_Id                 Type     Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
    c0                  fc-fabric  connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077,0 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077,1 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077,2 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006077,3 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f23000063a9,0 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f23000063a9,1 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300005f24,0 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300005f24,1 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107,0 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107,1 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107,2 disk    connected    configured   unknown
    c0::50020f2300006107,3 disk    connected    configured   unknown