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Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
1. Solaris I/0 Multipathing Overview
2. Configuring Solaris I/O Multipathing Features
3. Configuring Fabric-Connected Devices
4. Configuring Oracle Solaris iSCSI Initiators
6. Configuring IPFC SAN Devices
7. Booting the Oracle Solaris OS From Fibre Channel Devices on x86 Based Systems
Oracle Solaris OS Setup Requirements
Oracle Solaris OS Installation Overview
8. Persistent Binding for Tape Devices
A. Manual Configuration for Fabric-Connected Devices
Follow the instructions in the appropriate Sun HBA installation guide found at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-storage-networking-190061.html.
If you select an automatic installation and you want to select specific devices to be installed during the installation, see Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Basic Installations.
After installing the HBA, perform the following steps for a DVD installation or an network-based installation of the Oracle Solaris OS on an x86 based system.
For more information, refer to Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Basic Installations..
The system BIOS setup screens are different for each system BIOS vendor. For example, from the BIOS setup screen, select the disk as the boot device.
For detailed information regarding your server's BIOS, see your system platform's administration guide.
Figure 7-1 Selecting an FC-based Boot Disk During Disk Selection
JumpStart (automatic) installation – If you have a Solaris 10 installation server available, you can begin the automated installation by selecting a network boot from the x86 based system's BIOS. If you select an automatic installation, skip to step 7.
Interactive text installation – You can begin an interactive installation by selecting the appropriate option from the GRUB menu when booted from media or when booted from an installation server.
After the installation is complete, you can exit the installer and configure the devices.
See Figure 7-2.
# luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2 DEVICE PROPERTIES for disk: /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2 Vendor: SUN Product ID: SE6920 Revision: 0202 Serial Num: 00500057 Unformatted capacity: 10240.000 MBytes Read Cache: Enabled Minimum prefetch: 0x0 Maximum prefetch: 0xffff Device Type: Disk device Path(s): /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2 /devices/scsi_vhci/disk@g600015d0002028000000000000001142:c,raw Controller /dev/cfg/c4 Device Address 213600015d207200,0 Host controller port WWN 210100e08b206812 Class primary State ONLINE Controller /dev/cfg/c11 Device Address 213600015d207200,0 Host controller port WWN 210100e08b30a2f2 Class primary State ONLINE
Figure 7-2 luxadm display Command and Output
The following luxadm command output from the example in the figure can be used to map the MPxIO based c#t#d# to the HBA WWN and array WWN:
MPxIO c#t#d# = c0t600015d00020280000000000000001142d0
Array WWN = 213600015d207200, LUN 0
HBA WWNs = 210100e08b206812 and 210100e08b30a2f2
Follow this step for each HBA to be used for multipathing, and specify the boot device to be the FC LUN on which you installed the Sun Solaris OS. See Figure 7-3 and Figure 7-4.
In this menu, you can select the boot device/LUN by the array WWPN.
Figure 7-3 HBA BIOS Screen for an HBA WWN
Figure 7-4 HBA BIOS Screen for Enabling Boot From the FC LUN
Note -
The figure shows the following modifications:
Selectable boot = Enabled
ARRAY WWN = 213600015d207200
ARRAY LUN = 0
HBA WWN = 210100e08b206812