02-13-2016
AIX - Fibre Adapter and IBM Storage
Hello,
Just a quick question
Usually from a PSERIES if you want to connect to IBM SAN Storage
you connect the IBM SAN Storage through a SAN Switch
something like
this
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however my question
Can you connect
from Pseries directly to San Storage
without SAN Switch
what would be needed?
Thanks in advance.
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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
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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).
hbaapi(3C)