Fibre Channel Connectivity for Storage Devices

This feature is new in the Solaris Express 8/04 release.

The Solaris Fibre Channel I/O stack provides connectivity and multipathing functions for Fibre Channel devices in a Storage Area Network (SAN). The following enhancements have been made to this feature:

• Boot support with Solaris installation programs on SPARC platforms for Fibre Channel devices

• x86 platform support (32-bit and 64-bit) for Fibre Channel devices

Previous SAN releases were distributed through SunSolve^SM and Sun Download Center (SDLC) in patch sets and packages for the Solaris 8 OS and the Solaris 9 OS. All new SAN features will be integrated and distributed through Solaris releases.

For more information about SAN and related documents, refer to http://www.sun.com/storage/san/.