However, these usually deal with specifying addresses for hardware raid. Solaris scsi disk driver sd or ssd the io retry values for sd and ssd are different. If luns have been preconfigured in the kerneldrvsd. In addition to the etc system file, the file kerneldrvsd. To use the ds4 via bluetooth in this mode you must pair it first. The location of the configuration files is etc driver drv. Following the emc best practices for solaris on xtremio. As a result, some of its contents apply to one configuration, but not another. But, if this is your first time connecting remote storage to solaris, there are a number of configuration tasks that will be new to you if you have only worked with directly attached scsi arrays or suns legacy fibre channel arrays such as. The driver offers access to the hilscher netx based hardware e. I have some questions on the setting that are to be changed. For example, to use a hardware raid array that has 4 scsi disks as luns 03 on scsi target 0, edit kerneldrvsd. Some new operating system versions have the ability to do very large block sizes.
Minor numbers are too big for 32bit applications due to. Some products hbas, software, os may not becovered. For example, you must modify the host configuration file kerneldrvsd. If solaris 11 os is used and the etcdriverdrvnf file exists. Attached at the end of this readme file is a sample sd. Huawei san storage host connectivity guide for solaris huawei. By jason mccullough, july 11, 2003 storage area networks have moved from the cutting edge to almost commonplace. Quick guide to install and how to check that emc san is attached and working. About device drivers managing devices in oracle solaris.
Driver configuration files provide values for device properties. The major vendors for storage hardware are emc, oracle formerly knows as sun microsystems, ibm, hp, dell etc. Weve just bought some new x44 servers 60 core, 256gb ram, solaris 11. Please useas a guide and tailor to your site and needs. Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle solaris.
A target number that is already used by the sd driver of the system disk or cdrom cannot be deleted. All entries for veritas volume manager device driver tunables are now contained in files named kerneldrvvx. Having a program or file that does not apply to your configuration does not affect performance. How you actually pair the ds4 with your computer depends on how your system is setup, suggested googling. In solaris 11, driver customizations are made in the etc driver drv directory rather than in the kernel directory as in previous releases. Veritas dmp nf and nf variables for systems using native drivers 37. Os native multipathing software huawei san storage host. Installing install emulex driverfirmware, san packages saninfo, hbainfo, lputil, emc powerpath. The instructions state to set the physicalblocksize to 8192 but then later it says to use 512 when you create the volumes. The corresponding entries for these devices must be made in the standard device configuration files. Information is collected by vxprint, vxdg, vxinfo, vxdisk, and vxstat. Native fcp driver with mpxio usage sparc solaris 10. You might consider the bus level or device level setpoints as we discussed above rather than a system wide setting.
To allow solaris to detect up to 255 devices that are connected to the qlogic adapter, the file, kerneldrvsd. In both cases, the target number associated with the wwn of the array adapter is arbitrary. This can have a performance impact on some of the hp storage products. If you look at a random selection of very small files under kerneldrv for actual physical hardware, youll see that they almost always only contain the line.
They are determined by the following sets of parameters. Customizing a driver configuration usually means that a perdevice parameter or global property that impacts all. How to improve efficiency and coexistence of veritas dmp. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio. The file etc lvm is used by the metainit1m command to find the locations of the metadevice state dat. First, confirm that the logical unit settings on the eternus dxaf storage systems are correct. The files in the etc driver drv directory are preserved during the upgrade.
The 4 configuration files used in case of solaris 11 are the same, performing the same task. The format of an etcdriverdrv nf file is identical to that of a vendor nf file. Customizing a driver configuration usually means that a perdevice parameter or global property that impacts all devices is added or modified. San storage area networking for system administrators. In both cases, the target number associated with the. Next, add the descriptions of the logical units in the sd drivers configuration file sd. Make the server recognize the eternus dxaf logical units using the sd driver. Run the cfgadm command on the host to check whether the hba drivers are. Descriptionthis article describes how to configure fibre channel drivers and other system settings in solaris for better performance with infinibox. Fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual pdf download.
An update on the additional requirement to have the vdc. Per this emc document, the entries below caused the os to hang at booting endlessly and it never boots. Files in etc driverdrv are available for local customizations to supplement the vendor driver configuration. This manual describes the hilscher cifx driver for linux and its architecture.
How to customize a driver configuration in solaris 11. Ensure you have the latest supported version of the qla2300 driver. Given the output from formats inquiry subcommand is st4000lm0161n21, you probably need to use ata st4000lm0161n21 instead of ata st4000lm016 in sd. How to load and view hba and associated san software. Huawei uses machine translation combined with human proofreading to translate this document to different languages in order to help you better understand the content of this document. About device drivers managing devices in oracle solaris 11. Note that if you disable dynamic discovery of devices via the hbaxdisabledynamicdevicesupport parameter, you must populate the sd. Below is a collection of methods to set the max io transfer size for various operating systems to a smaller recommended value, this value can vary depending on the storage system involved, e. Please enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of our new posts by email. The etc lvm file is created when the metadb1m command is invoked. Managing devices in oracle solaris oracle solaris 11. In both cases, the target number associated with the wwpn of the fiber array adapter is arbitrary.
Copy the original vendor supplied nf file to the etcdriverdrv directory. This utility displays information about luns on the storage system that are available to this host. Add descriptions of the logical units to the sd driver configuration file nf using a text editor, such as vi. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning. You too can understand device numbers and mapping in. Hba host bus adapters acts as initiator in scsi storage subsystem and main function is converting scsi commands into fiber channel format. This toolkit is common across all the host configurations. Missing or damaged configuration files vxvm no longer maintains entries for tunables in etc system as was the case for vxvm 3. Vdc driver configuring vdisk physical block size in vdc. This command displays the version of the san toolkit that you are running. An update to the solaris 11 recommended path for sd.
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