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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
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 Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide provides an overview of the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software as an integrated part of the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). 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 Fibre Channel (FC) storage area networks (SANs) and serial attached SCSI (SAS) Domains. A high level of expertise in the management and maintenance of SANS and SAS Domains is assumed.
Before you read this book, read the latest Solaris 10 Operating System Release Notes.
Chapter 1, Product Overview provides an overview of the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software.
Chapter 2, Fibre Channel Configuration Overview provides an overview of configuring the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software.
Chapter 3, Administering Multipathing Devices Through mpathadm Commands explains how to use the mpathadm command to enable multipathing administration through the ANSI standard Multipath Management API.
Chapter 4, Configuring Multipathing Softwareexplains how to configure the multipathing feature for FC devices provided in the Solaris 10 OS.
Chapter 5, Configuring SAN Devices provides high level overviews of the steps used to configure SAN devices.
Chapter 6, Configuring SAS Domainsprovides high-level overviews of the steps used to configure SAS domains.
Chapter 7, Configuring IPFC SAN Devices explains considerations when configuring IPFC SAN Devices.
Chapter 8, Solaris 10 10/08 x86/x64 Fibre Channel Operating System Booting Proceduredescribes how to manually install the Solaris 10 OS, x86/x64 FC Operating System.
Chapter 9, Persistent Binding for Tape Devicesdescribes how you can specify tape binding in the Solaris 10 OS while retaining the benefits of automatic discovery for disk-based devices.
Appendix A, Manual Configuration for Fabric-Connected Devicesexplains Manual configuration for Fabric Connected Devices.
Appendix B, Supported FC-HBA APIprovides details on Supported FC-HBA API.
Appendix C, Multipathing Troubleshootingprovides trouble shooting information for potential problems that might occur while you run the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software.
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 at http://docs.sun.com
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The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P-1 Typographic Conventions
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The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.
Table P-2 Shell Prompts
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