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Old 03-20-2008
solaris multipathing
I have solaris 10 sparc. I installed a Qlogic hba card.
This card is connected on a brocade switch and the brocade is connected on 2 different controllers on a Hitachi disk bay.
I formated 2 luns. On my solaris system, i have 4 disk.
How to configure solaris 10 to fix the dual disk view.

bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
1. c0t2d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@2,0
2. c0t3d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@3,0
3. c2t50060E801049EB91d0 <HITACHI-DF600F-0000-30.00GB>
/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w50060e801049eb91,0
4. c2t50060E801049EB91d1 <HITACHI-DF600F-0000-30.00GB>
/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w50060e801049eb91,1
5. c2t50060E801049EB92d0 <HITACHI-DF600F-0000-30.00GB>
/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w50060e801049eb92,0
6. c2t50060E801049EB92d1 <HITACHI-DF600F-0000-30.00GB>
/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w50060e801049eb92,1
bash-3.00# luxadm probe
No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es

Found Fibre Channel device(s):
Node WWN:50060e801049eb91 Device Type: Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c2t50060E801049EB91d0s2
Node WWN:50060e801049eb91 Device Type: Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c2t50060E801049EB91d1s2
Node WWN:50060e801049eb92 Device Type: Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c2t50060E801049EB92d0s2
Node WWN:50060e801049eb92 Device Type: Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c2t50060E801049EB92d1s2

bash-3.00# luxadm -e port
/devices/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
# 2  
Old 03-20-2008
look at the manpage of "stmsboot".

hth,
DN2
# 3  
Old 03-20-2008
Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide might have a bit more info than just that one man page.
# 4  
Old 03-20-2008
yes, but the question was: "how to enable..." Smilie
# 5  
Old 03-20-2008
The command mpathadm list lu have no result.
but, the disks are listed with format.

-bash-3.00# mpathadm list initiator-port
Initiator Port: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:01:080020fedd90.47deb6b4,4000002a00ff
Initiator Port: 210000e08b9d7baf

-bash-3.00# mpathadm show initiator-port 210000e08b9d7baf
Initiator Port: 210000e08b9d7baf
Transport Type: Fibre Channel
OS Device File: /devices/pci@1f,2000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0
-bash-3.00# mpathadm list lu
-bash-3.00#
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