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Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide |
2. Fibre Channel Configuration Overview
3. Administering Multipathing Devices Through mpathadm Commands
4. Configuring Multipathing Software
Enabling and Disabling Multipathing
Enabling or Disabling Multipathing on a Per-Port Basis
Port Configuration Considerations
To Configure Multipathing by Port
Configuring Third-Party Storage Devices
Third-Party Device Configuration Considerations
Configuring Third-Party Storage Devices: New Devices
To Configure New Third-Party Devices
Configuring Third-Party Storage Devices: Disabling Devices
To Disable Third-Party Devices
Displaying Device Name Changes
Configuring Automatic Failback
To Configure Automatic Failback
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
The multipathing feature for FC devices can be configured to control all Sun supported FC HBAs. Multipathing is disabled by default for FC devices on SPARC based systems, but is enabled by default on x86 based systems. Configuration of the multipathing software depends on how you intend to use your system.
Note - The multipathing feature is not available for parallel SCSI devices but is available for FC disk devices. Multipathing is not supported on tape drives or libraries, or on IP over FC.
Before you configure third-party devices for multipathing, be aware of the following:
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