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How configure SAN to server?

Hi all,

I have a server with Solaris version 9. I wanted to mount SAN storage to my server. I am new at this.

Can anyone give me an overview on how to this. Any documents will be fine also. Please let me know if any information is required. Thanks in advance.

Below shows the HBA port:

Code:

luxadm -e port
Found path to 1 HBA ports
/devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl                     CONNECTED

luxadm -e dump_map /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl
Pos AL_PA ID Hard_Addr Port WWN         Node WWN         Type
0     e0  5     e0     21000004cf44ac3d 20000004cf44ac3d 0x0  (Disk device)
1     e2  3     e2     21000004cf449f4b 20000004cf449f4b 0x0  (Disk device)
2     dc  6     dc     50800200001851a9 50800200001851a8 0xd  (SES device)
3     e8  1     e8     21000004cf44a352 20000004cf44a352 0x0  (Disk device)
4     e1  4     e1     21000004cf44a4f3 20000004cf44a4f3 0x0  (Disk device)
5     ef  0     ef     21000004cf4c2b4d 20000004cf4c2b4d 0x0  (Disk device)
6     e4  2     e4     21000004cf44ac5a 20000004cf44ac5a 0x0  (Disk device)
7     1   7d    0      210000e08b000000 200000e08b000000 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host Bus Adapter)

luxadm qlgc
Found Path to 1 FC100/P, ISP2200 Devices
Opening Device: /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl
Detected FCode Version:       ISP2200 FC-AL Host Adapter Driver: 1.14 01/11/20
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Which type or brand of storage you are using...????

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Hi Reboot,

My SAN storage is using HDS 9500
while my server model: SF V880

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Well I don't know much about "HDS 9500" storage,but in general you need to zone the host HBA Port ( V880 ) with the port on the Storage so that you host could see the storage.Zoning is done on the switch level and command depends upon the type of switch in use.

You can get the WWN number of the host HBA Port ( V880 ) as :

Code:

# prtconf -pv|grep -i wwn

And the WWN number of the storage port can be found out as (for brocad switch only):

Code:

# switchshow
 
and 
 
#portshow <port_number>

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In my case, i have a IBM ESS Shark 800 storage and have multi os clients solaris 5.8 and 5.10 and RHEL 5. There is host attached with the storage and it has a graphical utility to create lun after adding new hard disks. Once the lun is created then i need to assign the lun to the host which has the WWPN ( not WWNN ) ip address, hostname. Then from solaris if i gave "devfsadm -Cv" i could see the lun.
This is what the procedure i follow in my site. It will vary with respect to the vendor. But i hope i may give a idea about assigning a lun to the client.

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Zoning was done by our "SAN administrator".
Now i just need to see the SAN drive to be mounted.

I hav downloaded & installed the drivers JNIC415.tar.gz & EZF_221.tar. But still cant seems to detect the SAN storage. Don't know if there is still any configuration to be done.

Hi kingston, can you explain to me more about devfsadm -Cv, from man, it seems like cleaning dangling links & printing the changes to /dev and /device?

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devfsadm -Cv builds devices and /dev links for new devices that is added like SAN disks on the fly, its similar to doing a boot -r or a "touch /reconfigure, reboot".

If Solaris is able to see the disks, is will show up in "format"
The best place to start is to build the devices for the disk(devfsadm -Cv or boot -r, I prefer boot -r) and then look at format.
IF the disk shows up in format, then start using it as normal(newfs and mount if ufs etc)

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