Before you start configuring the software by port, consider the following:
FC global and per-port multipath settings are specified in the /kernel/drv/fp.conf file.
Per-port multipath settings have priority over the global setting. Therefore, if global multipathing is enabled but a specific port has been disabled for multipathing, the port will not be available in the multipathing configuration. Conversely, even if global multipathing has been disabled, specific ports may be enabled for multipathing if they are listed in the appropriate driver.conf file.
Load balancing is controlled by the global load-balance property in the/kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf file and is not controlled on a per-port basis.
If a device has more than one path to the host, all paths to the device must be configured with multipathing enabled or disabled.
Configuring multipathing by port enables the multipathing software to coexist with other multipathing solutions like Symantec (VERITAS) Dynamic Multipathing (DMP), or EMC PowerPath. However, devices and paths should not be shared between the multipathing software and other multipathing solutions.
The following procedure applies to both SPARC based and x86 based systems.
Depending on how many ports you want the multipathing software to control, you can enable or disable multipathing globally or for specified ports.
To list the available devices, perform an ls –l command on the /dev/cfg directory. The following example shows the ls -l command output.
# ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jan 29 21:33 c0 -> ../../devices/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@8:scsi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 Jan 29 21:33 c1 -> ../../devices/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0,2/LSILogic,sas@1:scsi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 Jan 29 21:33 c2 -> ../../devices/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0,2/LSILogic,sas@2:scsi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Jan 29 21:33 c3 -> ../../devices/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@9/LSILogic,sas@0:scsi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Apr 16 20:28 c5 -> ../../devices/pci@780/pci@0/pci@8/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0:fc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Apr 16 20:28 c6 -> ../../devices/pci@780/pci@0/pci@8/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0:fc
Determine the port or ports for which you want to explicitly enable or disable multipathing.
For each FC HBA port that is to be enabled in the /etc/driver/drv/fp.conf, add the following line:
name="fp" parent="parent‐name" port=port-number mpxio-disable="no";
where parent‐name is the port device name, and port-number is the FC HBA port number.
For example, the following entries disable multipathing on all FC HBA controller ports except for the two specified ports:
mpxio-disable="yes"; name="fp" parent="/pci@6,2000/SUNW,qlc@2" port=0 mpxio-disable="no"; name="fp" parent="/pci@13,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qlc@5" port=0 mpxio-disable="no";
For each FC HBA port that is to be disabled, add the following line:
name="fp" parent="parent‐name" port=port-number mpxio-disable="yes";
For example:
name="fp" parent="/pci@6,2000/SUNW,qlc@2" port=0 mpxio-disable="yes";
# stmsboot -u
You are prompted to reboot. During the reboot, the /etc/vfstab file and your dump device configuration are updated to reflect any device name changes.