1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

We are looking at running MPIO for it's redundancy and load balancing benefits. Does anyone know what pieces of software or modules are needed on the VIO server to get load balancing to work. Remember we are using EMC's DMX3500 storage system. We no longer want to use Powerpath. :rolleyes: ... (2 Replies)

2. AIX

This may sound like an absolute rookie question, and it is. I have been working on Migrating our HP and Solaris servers to the new EMC SAN and know the routines backwards. Now we've suddenly got a new IBM server and I don't even know how to check if it is connected to the switch. Can someone... (1 Reply)

3. AIX

Hi everyone, how can I check if I have LUNs in a server and the LUN´s vpath in AiX? thx (5 Replies)

4. AIX

Hi all, I hope I'm putting my first post at this site into the right forum. I need help finding the EMC disk driver for AIX version 5.3. I have some new EMC disk presented to a backup server of mine, and right now the EMC hdisks show up looking like this in an lsdev: hdisk495 Available... (2 Replies)

5. AIX

Hi All.. On to a new implementation with AIX 7.1 san boot from EMC disks (Using NPIV). Anyone played with this recently? Wondering if we need PowerPath on the AIX clients or has native MPIO matured to replace it. Thoughts? Thanks Mr B (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have seen a few threads / posts on the forum's but nothing specific to what Iam after. So Iam hoping you can help. Issue : Iam hoping to remove unused emc luns from my solaris servers , T2000 (5.10 Generic_142900-02). I have a list of the process I have followed for the removal of the luns.... (3 Replies)

7. Linux

Hello guys, I'm going crazy over here with a problem with a LUN created on a EMC CX3. I did sucessfully managed to create the LUN on the Storage (the LUN is named DBLNX25EC_TST), after doing the following process: echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host<n>/issue_lip and echo "- - -" >... (10 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hello all, i try to allocate the same LUN to two server (or more in the future) i use solaris 10, vxvm (vxfs) for data and solaris zones and EMC DMX-4, i try to migrate solaris zones between servers in case of problem. and this is what i want to do - affect LUN to srv00124 and srv10155 -... (5 Replies)

9. AIX

Hello all! I have not so much experience with AIX We have test p5 server. On server was deployed VIOS + 3 LPAR + AIX6.1 There is a test HACMP cluster of two nodes, the cluster is identical to production cluster (all clusters and hosts have been configured by specialist of integrator company and... (3 Replies)

10. AIX

Hi Experts , I want to start migrating our AIX 6.1 to AIX 7.1 . I am planning to use alt_disk_migration . Chris gibson has awesome documentation in the internet. However I am running into an issue with EMC odm filesets . So my current OS is AIX 6.1. and I have this : lslpp -l | grep EMC ... (7 Replies)