I am running Sun Enterprise Backup (aka Legato Networker) 7.1 Business edition. The server is running on a Solaris 9/Sparc machine. The server is also a client. I also have Linux and Polaris clients.I am trying to get client savepnc scripts (for pre/post commands) working.(this would be to shutdown ...

Hii,I am going to install Oracle 10g RAC on Solaris 10 (sparc) using Oracle Clusterware only.I am not going to use any vendor provided clusterwares.For Oracle Clusterware installation,I need five raw devices.I am using Sun StorEdge T3.I want shared storage on two nodes of cluster.I have created ...

Greetings all-We just purchased a 2540 with 12 fiber 15k rpm SAS disks with a max capcity of ~3.2TB. I installed the Java Web Console on a machine and can successfully connect to the array and configure stuff. One thing I'm confused about is that I can create profiles for storage pools, and create ...

Was wondering if anyone has seen this. We recently took over responsibility for several 6120 arrays and one of them seems to have a problem with the secondary controller reporting VPD. As a side note: All volumes are intact and can be accessed by the host. We can fail over to the secondary ...

<p>Hi,</p><p>Is there a command that can show the date of the hdd first mounted?</p><p>May i know how long is a hard disk life span? So i may budget for a new hard disk.</p><p>Thanks</p>

I have been working on this one for a few days. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.HardwareMachine: Sun Blade 2000Tape Drives: HP Ultrium LTO2 002 (x2) (Inside an L40)SoftwareOS: Solaris 8st.conf uncommented lines:tape-config-list="HP Ultrium 2","HP Ultrium LTO ...

Hi,while opening the CAM with the webbrowser we see the following message on top of the page:The CAM FMS engine may not be responding. Please contact your Technical Support Representative for assistance.We also cannot register our array to CAM because of FMS authentication connection ...

Hi,does anybody have a clue how i can install the external raidsystem Provigo 410 from transtec into solaris 10?I connected it via fc and iscsi with a V240 and get the messages in the format :FC:1. c3t230000A0D1E171F8d0 <drive type ...

We recently purchased a 6140 array and are currently performing evaluations before putting it into production. The array firmware version is 06.19.25.10. We抳e loaded the CAM software (version 5.1) from the CD that came with the array on 3 management servers. Two are running Solaris 10 and one ...

Hi,I read some other posts about 3510 performance but most of them were focused on MB/s rather than IOPS. I have very strange issue with one of our database on 3510 - DBWR (Oracle process responsible for flush buffer cache) checkpoints takes ages. After some investigation I discovered that on ...

Hi,I was asked to reduce backup timings by upgrading existing SDLT320 tape drives to standalone SUN LTO-3 tape drives on a server SUN E4500 running Solaris 2.6 OS.Can someone advice if SUN LTO-3 is compatible with SUN E4500 with 2.6 OS or not ?Thanks

Hi,Is anyone aware of tools available for checking the status of disk health on the SAN? We are having issues with applications running on one of the disks and would like to isolate the issue to a particular disk which is part of the RAID. Any tools from SUN would be ideal, the OS for the ...

Does anybody know of a good reference for using the CLI on the Storedge Software. I cannot get it to detect the local attached FC Disk Array.ThanksJW

I am setting up a 3510 FC array, attached to 2xv490s locally via on-board HBA cards. Do I have to setup the 3510 on it's own network interface? I figured I could see the unit via the fibre connections into the HBAs to do a setup?Any ideasThanksJW

We presently have a 6130 Controller with one connected FC expansion tray that is fully populated and a SATA expansion tray populated with 5 drives.I would like to fully populate the SATA tray with 9 additional drives and I am having difficulties locating the drive tray part individually or the ...

HelloI am looking for some electrical information on the StorageTek 9310 (Powderhorn) and it's components. can anyone assist me?

Hi allI am a very new Solaris admin. Reading about SE3510 I found that is possible to boot from it.I would like to have a 3rd system disk cloned from the first two system disks, in order to boot from it in a disaster case. The problem: I have not that 3rd system disk. My question is: is it ...

Greeting fellow storage guys and galsJust wondering if anyone been able to or know of a way to look at the performance stats in the 6140 array. I'd like to get a historical view of stats over time ?Is this possible or can someone point me in the right direction on how i'd do this ?Thanks all ...

Hi all ,I have two solaris 10 x86 boxes and my diskarray is 3510,the boxes link the 3510 with two hba .These boxes is enabled MPxIO,mpathadm list lu can list all luns are assigned to them. But mpathadm show lu luname can't display which path is active now,the output as below:bash-3.00# ...

We recently update the kernel of our Solaris 9 Service Processor using the latest Solaris 9 cluster patch. We also updated the service processor with the following patches or higher:112233-12SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch 113225-08Timezone commands and zoneinfo database update Patch 112874-37SunOS ...

Hello - Our V880 recently had a mirrored disk fail. I had to do metadb -d /dev/dsk/c1t11d0s7to delete a state database to be able to boot the machine.Now the disk has been replace and resynced with metareplace. However, when I try to recreate a state database withmetadb -a /dev/dsk/c1t11d0s7I ...

Hello All,My first connection on this forum & I would need your help.I have to configure a Storedge 3310 (6 disks 72Gb).Already created:1 Logical Drive: 5 disks in Raid 5 + 1 SpareSize of the drive: 279GB.I need to create 11 partitions (10*12GB + 1*159GB), but apparently, I can create only ...

Hi All, I installed Netbackup 6, and I'm using SUN C4 (Quantum PX502) as tape library.I configured the the robot, and its 2 drives, but when running an inventory on the robotit shows only 2 slots instead of 38.Any idea on this problem ?Regards.

Hi All,Can anyone tell me where can i find documents proving that FLX240 will work on a 3 node cluster setup (3 p series) using HACMP. The flx240 is already in place. IBM is saying that HACMP doesnt supports flx240 in 3 node cluster, so they are positioning a new array,a DS4700. Many thanks in ...

I have 2 t3b's on en enterpise configuration with raid 1 + 0 on each of them.I have issued avol verify v1while connected on the serial console of the alternate master (v2) which resulted in a reboot on the alternate master and since then it is offline (online led is blinking yellow) and format ...

I have a 6140 connected to an x4200 through a QLogic FC HBA. I'm using the web interface to the Common Array Manager to setup pools/volumes etc.Drives are mapped and show up as devices of the form: /dev/dsk/c0t<WWN> where the WWN is a very long hexadecimal number. For ...

We study ST6140 MirrorCopy capability. It allows to create mirror volume pairs using built-in tools.We have discovered two serious drawbacks of LSI MirrorCopy:1) It is impossible to place MirrorCopy into "suspended state". We can make one volume to be copied to mirror one in realtime, or to ...

Hi,We have a number of 6320 arrays that we would like to access from x86-64 hosts running RedHat AS4. The hosts have dual port QLogic (QLE2462) HBAs.The question is how do we achieve this with multipathing? Unfortunately Sun seem to have stopped development of Traffic Manager which worked with ...

Hi, I have 6130 Controller and 2 expansion trays FC and SBOD of 6130. I also have 2 expansion trays of 6140. Can any one let me know whether i can connect 6140 Expansion trays to 6130 Setup?Regards,Soma Sekhar K

Hi guysI have been told that upgrading the controllers firmware on a degraded raid array can cause a loss of configuration. I have been doing this for over 1 year and it has never happened, it sounds more like a myth to me that anything else but i would like some advice on it, if possible.Is it ...

We are putting a SQL Mirror Cluster in place, and want to make sure we use the proper disk setup. We have two tools to use for benchmark testing to test the different volumes we抣l be using. While I抦 familiar with IOMeter, it has been suggested that this tool doesn抰 represent a 憈ypical database ...

Hi Folks,I'm currently copying data from one 90G raid 5 storage to an EVA system. The old system has a 90g partition that's quickily filling to capacity. So I created a 500G partition on the EVA. I connected the drives, and can see them, etc. Now, I did a default format on the new 500G ...

hi all,i currently run solaris 9 which is installed on my master internal hdd. i am preparing to upgrade to solaris 10 on my sunblade 100 using live upgrade. i am considering creating a new boot environment on my second internal hdd (which is configured as the slave to the master internal hdd). ...

I have a Solaris 9 server attached to a SAN fabric using two Silkworms 3850 with two emulex LP9002L-F2 cards. Presently there is a Hitachi 9500V storage presenting LUNs to the Sol9 server without any problems. We aquired two Netapp Filers 3820c that are attached to the SAN fabric. The server ...

hi,please, can anybody tell me: 1. where i can find out whether or not a particular tape drive is compatible with my sunblade 100 workstation running solaris 9? 2. do external tape drives usually connect to the workstation's serial port? 3. what kind of specs/features should i be looking out ...

I have Sparc server, V240, with 2 internal disks, HBA(QLA2342), connected to Storage type HDS AMS500.There is any procedure how to megrate from internal scsi boot disk to a boot the solarin from LUN on the SAN? (with and without MPxIO)thanks

So I've got a shiny new V215 server, jumpstarted to Solaris 10 Update 3. I try to mirror the OS disk:# raidctl -f -c c1t0d0 c1t1d0Cannot create RAID volume, disk "c1t0d0" is mounted .Are we for real? I feel a rant coming on. Every box Sun builds has some insane defect or some engineering flaw ...

Greetings,Needing some new storage we are considering the new 2540 array. Everything looks great except the cache size is up to 1GB. 512MB per controller. We are currently using 3510 storage arrays with dual controllers and 1GB cache per controller.So at this point I'm thinking we should opt ...

I have:X4200Solaris 10 11/06 fully patchedSun (LSI) PCI-X Single U320 SCSI HBA (SGXPCI1SCSILM320-Z), LSI MPTBIOS 5.07.032 x Seagate ST3146707LC U320 SCA 10K drivesSupermicro CSE-M35S U320/U160 SCSI backplane (with QLogic GEM318 SAF_TE)LSI BIOS identifies Seagate drives (target 0, 1), GEM318 ...

Or I got wrong cards ?

We have been encountering frequent disk problems lately, most commonly disk read/write errors. I want to see if there was a way to monitor and anticipate problems in a proactive manner instead of reacting after the problem?We have a Sun Enterprise 450 with 20 disks and run Solaris 8. I have a ...

Hello,Are there any issues with creating a RAID1 configuration (mirroring) using SVM in Solaris 10 on a v215 or v245?What we want to accomplish is to mirror the entire primary drive's data (not just the root slice). Is this possible? Are there any showstopping problems to be aware ...

morning, mri have a SUN blade 1500, solaris 9, i attached Fujitsu tape drive 3480/90 M2488C, in adaptec scsi (se) card, but i don see the drive in solaris, the scsi card is good (tested) and Fujitsu tape drive is good (tested).Please, what i need to do?, what command, patches? i don know wath ...

Hi Experts,I have one SE3510 FC with Single Raid Controler connected to Sun V440 via HBA (DAS), the system has been working well at production for two years but suddently, Yesterday, SE3510 FC had Audible beep out continueously and I saw only Power/fan LED at Front-panel turned to brinking ...

hi all,We have a Sun StoreEdge DAT 72 Tape drive installed internally in a Sun Blade 2500. When we do a probe-scsi-all from PROM we can see the tape drive but there are no directories created under /dev/rmt ?We have tried boot -r, devfsadm, drvconfig;devlinks;tapes etc... but the OS (Solaris 9) ...

Hi,I have 2 Sun Fire v240 servers connected to a Sun Stroredge 3500 FC. The backplane Activity LED is brighting in a synchronous way with an alarm sound that sounds like a morse code or something (continuous then slotted...). There is no sign of faults in the different LEDs (all of them are ...

I understand that Sun Microsystems had taken over Procom. Anyone know where I might be able to find a OS Update for this system?Procom Tech. Netforce 1500My email: basshunterX@ultimatex.net

I have one lun with 2 paths, and I use MPxIO without loadBallance,.NOTE: I have v240 server with solaris 10 the latest that connected to the SAN.Two Question :1. How I can see which of the paths is the active path?2. Is the MPxIO can understand which path(from 2 paths to the lun) is the path ...

Hello allWould I be able to drive a Dell powervault 660F fiber channel array with my Sun blade 2000 in build fiber channel port?

Greetings fellow Storage guru's Got a 6140 running Firmware 06.19.25.10 I've only got three hosts plugged into my Brocade 200e's 2 Windows 2003 hosts' dual path1 Linux Fedora Core 6 dual pathIs Lun31 normal we are trying to remove it (from the 6140) under mappings but are unsuccessful.I'm ...