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Managing SAN Devices and Multipathing in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: March 2018
 
 

Configuring Fibre Channel Devices

The basic steps to configure a FC setup are as follows:

  1. Configure FC switches. You can configure ports and zones according to the vendor-specific documentation for switches.

  2. Configure storage devices. You can use LUN masking to enable specific LUNs to be seen by specific hosts. For more information about LUN masking, see your vendor-specific storage documentation.

  3. Connect arrays, other storage devices, and Oracle Solaris hosts to a SAN.

  4. Configured FC devices are made available to the host automatically during installation, boot time, and run time.

If a new logical unit is added to a storage device during runtime, the new logical unit is configured automatically only if there is I/O traffic to another logical unit in the same storage device. A logical unit cannot be configured automatically if there is no I/O traffic. You can use the cfgadm command to manually probe the device.

For example:

# cfgadm -c configure c3::10000000c94c0cec