04-18-2007
I highly recommend you get a SAN Engineer that knows what they are doing. I f you have SAN support with IBM *CALL THEM*. they are smart enough not to take you beyond what they are capable.
I believe they let you have one support call at purchase that they will let you keep open for 30 days.
If don't have support pay the T&M to IBM. Even if it costs a couple thousand it may be worth it.
This is not much, but a SAN Engineer upgraded our ESS sdd and host attachment scripts over a year ago. The pool of disks were at that time viewable by all of 4 AIX systems, but the disks weren't carved on all 4 systems. At any rate, the vpath #s did change after our upgrade. From what I understood they where expected to change. The LUN IDs are what is important. Be careful.
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hbaapi(3C) hbaapi(3C)
NAME
hbaapi - Fibre Channel Storage Network Industry Association Host Bus Adapter Application Programming Interface (FC SNIA HBA API)
DESCRIPTION
The Common HBA API provides a consistent HBA standard interface for accessing information in a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN)
that would be implemented across vendors as a standard 'C' API supported by vendor specific library instances.
This API library is thread-safe, but threads should not be cancelled when execution is in the API.
The following functions are available in the API for managing a Fibre Channel HBA. This API would be exposed to upper level applications
to control SAN functionality.
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FCP Information Functions require that the applications calling them
have an effective user id as that of the root user (euid = 0).
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SCSI Information Functions require that the applications calling them have an effective user id as that of the root user (euid = 0).
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Contains the related data structures and definitions as in
AUTHOR
These APIs were developed by Hewlett-Packard Company.
SEE ALSO
HBA_GetVersion(3C), HBA_LoadLibrary(3C), HBA_FreeLibrary(3C), HBA_GetNumberOfAdapters(3C), HBA_GetAdapterName(3C), HBA_OpenAdapter(3C),
HBA_CloseAdapter(3C), HBA_GetAdapterAttributes(3C), HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes(3C), HBA_GetPortStatistics(3C), HBA_GetDiscoveredPortAt-
tributes(3C), HBA_GetPortAttributesByWWN(3C), HBA_SendCTPassThru(3C), HBA_GetEventBuffer(3C), HBA_SetRNIDMgmtInfo(3C), HBA_GetRNIDMgmt-
Info(3C), HBA_SendRNID(3C), HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping(3C), HBA_GetFcpPersistentBinding(3C), HBA_SendScsiInquiry(3C), HBA_SendReportLUNs(3C),
HBA_SendReadCapacity(3C), HBA_RefreshInformation(3C), HBA_ResetStatistics(3C).
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