Yes I know but can we pickup whatever 1 disk and make it use AIX PCM or vice versa? Just want to know the possibility.
But I wonder why how they can have the 2 different drivers. I detect hdisk18 belongs to IBMSVC which is using AIX PCM whereas the others are using SDDPCM.
So what is IBMSVC? can we move disk from IBMSVC to 2017DS8K? I can see that all the LUNs comes from 1 source storage and visible to all 4 FCs adapters.
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)
Hi
I would like to ask what the benefits are of changing from RDAC to MPIO when connecting to a DS4000 on AIX 5.3? I have heard that IBM MPIO "might" support more than 1 active path to a LUN when connecting to a DS4800 through more than 1 host connection on the same AIX client. I understand that... (8 Replies)
Hi folks,
does anybody have a link to a documentation how to implement native MPIO on AIX? We are using EMC PowerPath and Datacore SanSymphony/Cambex for this so far and I wasn't able to find a good description on that topic. All I know so far is that mkpath, chpath and lspath are used to... (3 Replies)
Can anyone recommend me some reading material surrounding how AIX handles LUNs:
- with and without MPIO installed
- with and without SDD or SDDPCM installed
Where does lspath sit in all of this (MPIO layer?). Can a system be built with just MPIO software? Is MPIO software even needed?
I guess... (0 Replies)
On a particular LPAR, I was running AIX 5.3 TL 3. On Monday I did an update of the LPAR to 5.3 TL 9 SP2. The install was smooth, but then I ran into a problem.
The MPIO driver does not work with LSI's StoreAge (SVM4). I did some looking, and looks like
5.3 TL3 = IBM.MPIO 5.3.0.30
5.3... (0 Replies)
Hi,
we have a vew boxes using MPIO and they are connected to some virtualization software managing some disk subsystems, offering volumes to the AIX boxes.
Sometimes when a cable has been plugged out for a test or when a real problem occurs, using lspath to show the state of the paths shows... (8 Replies)
Hello,
we are planning to deploy some of our databases on AIX/LPAR based servers (we didn't bought it yet ...). IBM's engineers says that if we want to boot them from SAN the hardware array has to be compatible with MPIO but they don't want to deliver any document with list of arrays supported... (5 Replies)
We have AIX 6.1 system attached to SAN disks (DS4700 and DS8100) thru SVC.
Initially when the system was I forgot to install sddpcm drivers. and wanted to know how can i go with the installation of the sddpcm drivers.
My understandin going thru the manual ... (3 Replies)
This is getting very confusing for me, and appreciate if someone can help.
Platform: Power VM ( Virtual I/O Server)
ioslevel 2.1.3.10-FP23
# oslevel -s
6100-05-00-0000
Storage: IBM DS4300
Two HBAs - Dual Port Fibre Adapter Channels
Each card has two ports , so a total of 4 ports going... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
hpfc
hpfc(7D) Devices hpfc(7D)NAME
hpfc - Agilent fibre channel host bus adapter
SYNOPSIS
PCI pci103c
DESCRIPTION
The hpfc fibre channel host bus adapter is a SCSA compliant nexus driver that supports all Agilent fibre channel host bus adapters, includ-
ing the HHBA5100x, HHBA5101x, and HHBA5121x models. Agilent host bus adapters support the fibre channel protocol on private fibre channel
arbitrated loops and fabrics. The driver supports up to ten host bus adapters, with a maximum of 125 fibre channel devices on each host bus
adapter. The hpfc driver supports a maximum of 256 LUNs per target.
The hpfc driver does not support the BIOS Int 13 feature, which enables the booting of an operating system. As a result, you should not
install an operating system on devices attached to the hpfc driver.
CONFIGURATION
The hpfc driver attempts to configure itself using the information in the /kernel/drv/hpfc.conf configuration file.
By default, the driver supports only LUN 0 for each target device. To add multiple LUN support, modify the /kernel/drv/sd.conf file.
Before upgrading the hpfc driver, backup the sd.conf file to save customized LUN settings and then use pkgrm(1M) to remove the old version
of the driver.
The host bus adapter port is initialized to FL_Port when connected to a fabric switch. To change it to F_Port, add the init_as_nport=1
entry to the hpfc.conf file and reboot the system.
To conserve system resources, at least one disk drive must be attached to the hpfc driver. If no devices are attached, the driver will not
load.
FILES
/kernel/drv/hpfc 32-bit ELF kernel module
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/hpfc 64-bit ELF kernel module
/kernel/drv/hpfc.conf Driver configuration file
/kernel/drv/sd.conf SCSI disk configuration file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86, SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO luxadm(1M), pkgrm(1M), prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), ses(7D), ssd(7D)
ANSI X3.272-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL),
ANSI X3.269-1996, Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP),
ANSI X3.270-1996, SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM),
Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA)
SunOS 5.10 10 Oct 2000 hpfc(7D)