Preface

The Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing Administration Guide provides an overview of the Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing software for the SolarisTM 10 Operating System This guide includes instructions about how to install and configure the software and devices.

This guide is intended for system, storage, and network administrators who create and maintain storage area networks (SANs) and have a high level of expertise in the management and maintenance of SANs.

Note - The Traffic Manager Multipathing functionality has been incorporated into the Solaris Operating System. This document refers only to the multipathing functionality and not to the Traffic Manager product.

Before You Read This Document

Before you read this book, read the Solaris 10 Operating System 3/05 Release Notes.

How This Document Is Organized

Chapter 1 provides an overview of Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing software.

Chapter 2 provides an overview of configuring the Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing software.

Chapter 3 explains how to configure multipathing feature for FC devices provided in the Solaris Operating System.

Chapter 4 provide an overview of steps used to configure SAN devices.

Chapter 5 explains the considerations to configure IPFC SAN Devices.

Appendix A explains Manual configuration for Fabric Connected Devices.

Appendix B provides details on Supported FC-HBA API.

Appendix C provides trouble shooting information for potential problems that may occur while you run the Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing software.

Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information about basic UNIX^® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. Refer to the following for this information:

Software documentation that you received with your system

Solaris Operating System documentation, which is at:

http://docs.sun.com

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine-name`%`
C shell superuser	machine-name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Typographic Conventions

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`AaBbCc123`	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	`%` `su` `Password:`
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Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your.login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Application	Title	Part Number
Installation	Solaris 10 Operating System 3/05 Release Notes	817-7741-10
	Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing Administration Guide	801-xxxx-xx

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