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Managing Devices in Oracle
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Solaris 11.3
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Chapter 1 Managing Devices in Oracle Solaris
About Devices and the Oracle Hardware Management Pack
About Device Management
About Device Drivers
How to Customize a Driver Configuration
Automatic Configuration of Devices
Installing Unsupported Devices
Displaying Device Configuration Information
Resolving Faulty Devices
How to Resolve a Faulty Device
Adding a Peripheral Device to a System
How to Add a Peripheral Device
How to Add a Device Driver
Accessing Devices
How Device Information Is Created
Device Naming Conventions
Logical Disk Device Names
Disk Subdirectory
Direct and Bus-Oriented Controllers
Logical Tape Device Names
Logical Removable Media Device Names
Where to Find Additional Device Management Tasks
Chapter 2 Dynamically Configuring Devices
Dynamic Reconfiguration and Hot-Plugging
Attachment Points
About Attachment Point Identification
Performing SCSI Hot-Plugging Operations
Displaying Information About SCSI Devices
Configuring or Unconfiguring a SCSI Controller
Connecting or Disconnecting a SCSI Controller
Configuring or Unconfiguring a SCSI Device
SPARC: How to Add a SCSI Device to a SCSI Bus
SPARC: How to Replace an Identical Device on a SCSI Controller
SPARC: How to Remove a SCSI Device
Troubleshooting SCSI Configuration Problems
SCSI-Related Configuration Error Messages
Resolving a Failed SCSI Unconfigure Operation
PCI or PCIe Hot-Plugging With the cfgadm Command
Displaying PCI Slot Configuration Information
How to Remove a PCI Adapter Card
How to Add a PCI Adapter Card
Troubleshooting PCI Configuration Problems
PCIe Hot-Plugging With the hotplug Command
Hot Plug Command Uses
Troubleshooting PCI Hot Plug Operations
Performing SATA Hot-Plugging Operations
Configuring Or Unconfigure a SATA Device
How to Replace a SATA Device
Troubleshooting SATA Configuration Problems
Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM) Script Overview
About RCM Scripts
RCM Script Commands
RCM Script Directories
Using RCM Scripts
How to Prepare to Write an RCM Script for an Application
How to Prepare to Write an RCM Script for Specific Site Use
How to Install an RCM Script
How to Test an RCM Script
How to Remove an RCM Script
Tape Backup RCM Script Example
What the Tape Backup RCM Script Does
Outcomes of the Tape Backup Reconfiguration Scenarios
Example – Tape Backup RCM Script
Chapter 3 Using InfiniBand Devices
About InfiniBand Devices
Oracle Solaris Support for Infiniband Devices
InfiniBand Software Packages
Dynamically Reconfiguring IB Devices
Displaying IB Device Information: the cfgadm Command
Using the cfgadm Command
Using the prtconf Command
Configuring or Unconfiguring IB Devices
Modifying IB Configurations
Using the uDAPL API With InfiniBand Devices
How to Enable uDAPL
Updating the DAT Static Registry
Administering IPoIB Devices
Displaying Physical Data Link Information
Creating or Destroying IB Links
How to Create IB Partition Links
How to Remove an IB Partition Link
Administering EoIB Datalinks
How to Create and Configure an EoIB Datalink
How to Remove an EoIB Datalink
How to Restore an EoIB Datalink That Failed During Migration
Monitoring and Troubleshooting IB Devices
Chapter 4 Managing Disks in Oracle Solaris
Disk Management Features
Installing on Large Disks
Using Whole Disks for a ZFS Root Pool Disk or Disks
Using Advanced Format Disks
iSNS Support in the Solaris iSCSI Target and Initiator
Identifying Devices by Physical Locations
Concepts and Terminology
EFI (GPT) Disk Label
About Disk Slices or Partitions
Using the Free Hog Slice
Where to Find Disk Management Tasks
Chapter 5 Managing the Use of System's Disks
Managing Disk Use
Displaying Information About Disk Space
Use of Disk Space on ZFS File Systems
Use of Disk Space on UFS File Systems
Displaying Information About File Sizes
Using the ls Command
Using the find Command
Displaying Information About Directory Sizes
Maintaining Disks
Removing Old or Inactive Files
How to Find Old or Inactive Files for Deletion
Emptying Temporary Directories
Removing Dump Files
About Deferred Dump and System Crash Dumps
Chapter 6 Administering the System's Disks
Tools for Managing Disks
Obtaining Disk Information
Identifying Disks on a System
Displaying Slice or Partition Information
Displaying Disk Label Information
Displaying Disk Physical Locations
Configuring Disks
Formatting a Disk
Creating Disk Labels
How to Label a Disk
Modifying Slices or Partitions
SPARC: Using the partition Option
x86: Using the fdisk Option
Recovering a Corrupted Disk Label
How to Recover a Corrupted Disk Label
Scrubbing a Disk
Adding a Third-Party Disk
Chapter 7 Setting Up ZFS on Disks
About ZFS Disk Setup on Oracle Solaris Systems
Preparing a Disk for a ZFS Root File System
Adding or Replacing Disks for ZFS File Systems
How to Add Disks
SPARC: Setting Up Disks for ZFS File Systems
SPARC: How to Recreate the ZFS Root Pool (EFI (GPT))
SPARC: How to Replace a ZFS Root Pool (VTOC)
x86: Setting Up Disks for ZFS File Systems
x86: How to Recreate the ZFS Root Pool (EFI (GPT))
x86: How to Replace a ZFS Root Pool Disk (VTOC)
x86: How to Replace a ZFS Root Pool (EFI (GPT))
Configuring a Disk for a ZFS Non-Root File System
How to Set Up a Disk for a ZFS Non-Root File System
Chapter 8 Configuring Storage Devices With COMSTAR
Overview of COMSTAR Features
Configuring Storage Devices With COMSTAR Task Map
COMSTAR Terminology
Configuring Dynamic or Static Target Discovery
Configuring Storage Devices With COMSTAR
How to Enable the STMF Service
How to Back Up and Restore a COMSTAR Configuration
How to Create a Logical Unit
How to Configure CHAP Authentication for an iSCSI Target
How to Configure a RADIUS Server for an iSCSI Target
How to Create an iSCSI Target
How to Enable iSNS Discovery for the Target Device
How to Configure an IB HCA for iSER
Creating iSCSI Target Portal Groups
Using TPGs with iSER
How to Create a Target Portal Group for iSCSI Targets
How to Access iSCSI Disks
Making SCSI Logical Units Available
How to Make a Logical Unit Available to All Systems
How to Restrict Logical Unit Access to Selected Systems
How to Perform ZFS Rollback
Configuring Fibre Channel Devices With COMSTAR
Configuring Fibre Channel Ports With COMSTAR
How to Display Existing FC Port Bindings
How to Set All FC Ports to a Specific Mode
How to Set Selected FC Ports to Initiator or Target Mode
Making Logical Units Available for FC and FCoE
How to Make Logical Units Available for FC and FCoE
Configuring FCoE Devices With COMSTAR
Configuring FCoE Ports
Enabling 802.3x PAUSE and Jumbo Frames on the Ethernet Interface
How to Create FCoE Target Ports
How to Verify That an FCoE Target Port Is Working
How to Delete FCoE Target Ports
Configuring SRP Devices With COMSTAR
Using COMSTAR Views With SRP
How to Enable the SRP Target Service
How to Verify SRP Target Status
Chapter 9 Configuring and Managing the Oracle Solaris Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
About the iSNS Technology
Configuring the iSNS Server
Setting Up the iSNS Administrative Settings
How to Install the iSNS Server Package
How to Set Notifications for Changes in Server State
How to Set the Number of Retries for Client Inquiries
How to Specify the Data Store Location
Using the Command Line Interface to Configure iSNS
How to Display the Current Server Configuration
How to Enable the Default Discovery Domain Set
How to Create the Discovery Domain Sets
How to Create the Discovery Domains
How to Add a Discovery Domain to a Discovery Domain Set
How to Assign Clients to a Discovery Domain
Managing the iSNS Server and Clients
How to Display the Status of a Discovery Domain Set
How to Display the Status of a Discovery Domain
How to Display the Status of Clients
How to Remove a Client from a Discovery Domain
How to Remove a Discovery Domain from a Discovery Domain Set
How to Disable a Discovery Domain Set
How to Remove a Discovery Domain Set
Chapter 10 The Format Utility Reference
Recommendations and Requirements for Using the Format Utility
Format Menu and Command Descriptions
partition Menu
x86: fdisk Menu
analyze Menu
defect Menu
Rules for Input to format Commands
Specifying Numbers to format Commands
Specifying format Command Names
Specifying Disk Names to format Commands
Getting Help on the Format Utility
Chapter 11 Managing Tape Drives Tasks
Choosing Which Media to Use
Backup Device Names
Displaying Tape Drive Status
How to Display Tape Drive Status
Handling Magnetic Tape Cartridges
Retensioning a Magnetic Tape Cartridge
Rewinding a Magnetic Tape Cartridge
Guidelines for Drive Maintenance and Media Handling
Chapter 12 Writing CDs and DVDs
Working With Audio CDs and Data CDs and DVDs
CD/DVD Media Commonly Used Terms
Writing CD and DVD Data and Audio CDs
Restricting User Access to Removable Media
How to Restrict User Access to Removable Media With Administrative Rights
How to Identify a CD or DVD Writer
How to Check the CD or DVD Media
Creating a Data CD or DVD
How to Create an ISO 9660 File System for a Data CD or DVD
How to Create a Multi-Session Data CD
Creating an Audio CD
How to Create an Audio CD
How to Extract an Audio Track on a CD
How to Copy a CD
How to Erase CD-RW Media
Chapter 13 Managing USB Devices
About USB Support in Oracle Solaris
References for USB Information in Oracle Solaris
USB Device Features and Compatibility Issues
Bus-Powered Devices
USB Keyboards and Mouse Devices
USB Hubs and Host Controller
SPARC: USB Power Management
Managing USB Mass Storage Devices
Hot-Plugging USB Mass Storage Devices
Displaying USB Information
Creating File Systems on USB Storage Devices
How to Add a USB Mass Storage Device
How to Remove a USB Mass Storage Device
How to Create a File System on a USB Mass Storage Device
How to Modify Partitions and Create a PCFS File System on a USB Mass Storage Device
How to Create a Solaris Partition and Modify the Slices on a USB Mass Storage Device
How to Mount or Unmount a USB Mass Storage Device
Troubleshooting Tips for USB Mass Storage Devices
Disabling Specific USB Drivers
How to Disable Specific USB Drivers
How to Remove Unused USB Device Links
Hot-Plugging USB Devices With the cfgadm Command
About Multi-Configurations of a USB Device
How to Change the Default Configuration of a Multi-Configuration USB Device
Using USB Audio Devices
Displaying Information About USB Audio Devices
Troubleshooting USB Audio Device Problems
About Audio Device Ownership
Problem With Reverting to On-Board Audio Device
Chapter 14 Managing Removable Media
About Removable Media
Removable Media Considerations
About Formatting Removable Media
Managing Removable Media
How to Load Removable Media
How to Format a Removable Device (rmformat)
How to Create a File System on Removable Media
How to Create a File System on a DVD-RAM
How to Check a File System on Removable Media
How to Repair Bad Blocks on Removable Media
Applying Read or Write Protection and Password Protection to Removable Media
How to Enable or Disable Read and Write Protections
Accessing Removable Media
Using Removable Media Names
Guidelines for Accessing Removable Media Data
How to Add a New Removable Media Drive
How to Disable or Enable Removable Media Services
How to Access Information on Removable Media
How to Determine If Removable Media Is Still in Use
How to Eject Removable Media
Accessing Removable Media on a Remote System
How to Make Local Media Available to Other Systems
How to Access Removable Media on Remote Systems
Appendix A Commonly Used Commands for Administering Storage Devices
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Using RCM Scripts
This section provides procedures for using RCM scripts.
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