Archive for the ‘fibre channel’ Category
How to configure Solaris 10 to drive HP MSL 6000
I have done this a long time ago so there might be something missing as this comes from sketchy notes that I still have. The point of this exercise is to get Solaris 10 to use MSL 6000 fibre channel library for backups using HP Data Protector 5.5. I have done this on Sun Fire [...]
In: fibre channel, hp data protector, hp msl, solaris, solaris tips
Linux multipathing
I use MPxIO in Solaris quite often and it works very well for me. This time I needed to test out I/O multipathing in RedHat. What I really needed to do: have a server with two HBA’s manage a mirror which has submirrors on separate SAN’s; so that the server has multiple paths to each [...]
In: centos, fibre channel, hp eva, linux, linux tips, multipathing, redhat, san, storage
Disabling MPxIO for onboard disks
I was configuring MPxIO on Sun Fire V490. After issuing stmsboot -e command and rebooting the server, internal disks were under MPxIO’s control. This was not something I wanted and I needed to disable it. In order to do so I had to edit /kernel/drv/fp.conf file and tell Solaris not to enable MPxIO on internal [...]
In: fibre channel, mpxio, san, solaris, solaris tips, storage, sun hardware
Gathering fibre channel info using fcinfo
I came across fcinfo command reading some man page. So, I decided to see what kind of useful fibre channel information it could give me. It turns out fcinfo knows quite a bit. We can list all local fibre channel ports: bash-3.00# fcinfo hba-port HBA Port WWN: 21000003ba16dbd2 OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c1 Manufacturer: QLogic Corp. [...]
In: fibre channel, san, solaris, solaris tips, solaris utilities, storage
