I have a 9980 with 10 trays of 73GB drives.2 questions.I've heard that 146GB drives can only be used in a 7+1 configuration. True?And, if I add 146GB drives, do I need to add 2 trays instead of just 1?

All,I have been out of Unix Administration for about 6 years, but I am back (and glad to be!). However I am very new to working with SAN technology. I have a v480, Solaris 8, that I am building now. I know that there are 2 emulex HBA cards installed, but what do I need to do so it can see the ...

Hi.I have a Sun StorEdge L25 with two LTO-2 drives. Every morning, I find a 26C9 error on the LCD.What does this mean?Thanks.

hi All,i have a power supply AC on 3511 with amber LED.Can i replace it while the system is online or should i shutdown the storage then replacing the failed Power Supply?RegardsTimely

Hi,Our SAN team presented some discs to our Windows 2003 server in 'READ ONLY' mode but unfortunately it could not be accessed. However if it was switched to WRITE mode it worked. Does anyone have any ideas why this is a problem. It this a Windows limitation e.g. does it need to be able to ...

can't find RAID Manager for winnt to manager A1000 storedge. would appreciate any help.

Hi AllI need to know which HBA card will support solaris 10.we have sunfire 1280 server, brocade silkworm 12000 and hitachi 9980RegardsRPS

HiHas anyone used the card with the StoreEdge D1000 ?I cant' see any disk in the card's bios.Regards

All,I have a V480 running Solaris 8 attached to a CX700 array. I am kind of new to SANs. I am getting the following message:Jun 1 13:50:43 <sysname> scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@8,700000/ide@6/sd@0,0 (sd0):Jun 1 13:50:43 <sysname>transport rejected (-1)The system ...

HiI have Sun storedge 3310 version 413B, i create logical drive in Raid 5 configuration:LDLD-IDSize Assigned TypeDisks Spare Failed Statusld068EB1906 272.46GB PrimaryRAID5 510Good and i need create 16 partitions on it, but i can create only 7 partitions:* partitions ...

HiWe need to upgrade our Sun 3910 with larger disks, and have been looking at Seagate ST3300007FC disks. I see there are patches out for these disks with the Sun 3510. Does anyone know how I can find out if these disks are compatible with the 3910?Regards!Fourie

Hi allwe have installed QLA 2340 on a sunspac solaris 10 . when I launch the san surfer I is not showing the allocated lun. we have installed appropriate driver and patch. console gives following error.pls reply if u have any solutionDebug: Async call to Host '10.157.1.12', pnumber: 0x112e, ...

Hi there,just a little question:is it possible to attach a server with an Emulex FC HBA LP 10000ExDC to an 6920 storage system ?thx in advance

How would I do a firmware downgrade on a 3510 from 413C to 327R?

The T3 power supply has a green LED for AC power, but has a blinking amber LED for the PS LED. When we connect to the T3 it shows the battery status for this Power supply as unknown. We can't seem to figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions?Thanks,Glyn

Hi Experts,I have SE3510FC (12x73GB) connected to V440 using Solaris 8. The system has been working in production for more 2 years and Everything is fine at all.But suddently, there are some WARNING messages issued in log file involved in disks of SE3510FC by today, however the specific disks ...

Hi,can someone give me a small introduction, how to upgrade the firmware on solaris LP10000DC in Solaris 10/0106, SF4100.I'm using standard emlxs Solaris 10 drivers. Can you please point me to some how-to or some documments ?ThanksStefan

Hi I was trying to find the information what StorADE software can monitor. I found installation guides, general guidelines but not, lets say a table, with all possible events it can monitor. I am looking for something like this:StorADE can monitor and detect:1) controller failur2) disk ...

Hi,Can any one help me to "add additional disk drives to logical drive in StorEdge 3310 configured as RAID 5".Cheers,Srinivas

has this issue been resolved I am using loader system firmware V30.0 and Drive VG36Zthis was the last posting I found on Sun site, I presently have 6 of these drives about to go into production or notDocument Audience: SPECTRUM Document ID: 6382526 Title: The C2 library does not work as ...

we are evaluating to have solaris 10 hooked up with an EMC AX150i iscsi array. and AX150i appears have not yet been certified on solaris, although it does been certified on linux and windows. since ISCSI is a standard, my thought is it may just work,. however I'm wondering anybody who have ...

Hi I have some problem with 3310 (12*146Gb). when I configure it ( single bus) and connect with the console I found 2 warning :[110F] CHL:0 SCSI drive channel ALERT: SCSI Bus Reset Issued[1102] CHL:0 Drive SCSI vhannel ALERT:Cross phase/signal Error detectedwhat can I do in this regard that I ...

Documentation for the 6130 indicates support for RAID 0,1,3,5 & 0+1. However when creating a new storage profile in the console, the options listed are only 0,1,3 & 5. In order to achieve 0+1 should I create 2 Raid 0 pools and then mirror in VxVM? Am I missing something?Using:Java Web ...

I actually created this problem myself. I have two v440s and one has a quad ethernet card and one doesn't . I swapped the disks and neither system came back up. I swapped the disks back and one system came back up. I booted the other one from the cdrom and then when I run raidctl I get:# ...

Just bought a 3320 and is about to configure it for multiuser home accounts. Still after some reading in the manuals (e.g. the best practices manual) I have some configuration thoughts I would like to get feedback on.- The 3320 is connected to a v440 with a PCI/PCI-X Dual 320 HBA.- The 3320 is ...

Hello,I have the following 2 cards which I want to install on a Solaris 7 E250 server.SG-XPCI1FC-QF4SG-XPCI1FC-QL2I can't find the drivers from qlogic or sun's site. maybe im not looking hard enough. Can someone point me to the right spot?Thanks-Johnnyuname -aSunOS hostname 5.7 ...

Here is what I am looking at doing...Create 2 RAID 5 logical drives in a fully populated 3510 with 2 Global Spares.Create 2 LUNs one for each LD.Connect different servers to each LUN.Each LUN will be about 1.17TB.Should I use partitions instead? Or should I break up the LD's into more LUNs? I ...

Below is my error I get when i try to connect to the HP SAN storageAny help on this.adrianID[luxadm.create_fabric_device.2316] configuration failed for line>(/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0:fc::100000e00202b913)> in> file: /etc/cfg/fp/fabric_WWN_map. I/O error> WARNING: ...

Hi I want to backup the entire file systems of Solaris9 server to a single tape. I also want to restore it when its is required.The backup drive is connected to a remote machine and proper access is there.Which is the best way ie., ufsdump, cpio,......... to do this and what is the exact syntax ...

Hello,I am configuring two StorEdge 3510 and mapping them to two T2000 machines.But I have a problem with device names on one of the machines.sccli -lgives me this:sccli: /dev/es/ses3: device reset detectedsccli: /dev/es/ses4: device reset detected/dev/es/ses0SUN StorEdge 3510 ...

which option should be modify if i wanna setup cache block size to 64k in 3510 array ? because my stirpe size was set to 64k,so i wanna setup my cache block size to 64k.the document had refered to that it can be modify ,but not instruction how and i check all the option about the cache in ...

Now that SUN has acquired the Procom Dataforce line, where do we go for support on those products? Procom's site is pretty much broken, so there is no real support available...

We were having Fatal Write errors in var/adm/messages, and we replaced the internal XL tape drive with a refurbished one. The tape backups still aren't working; they fail after a small percentage is written to tape. We're getting the following Warnings in var/adm/messages. What do Warnings ...

Hi Everyone,We have a serious problem with our Sun StorEdge L25 Tape drive. When I reboot it to reset the tape drive, it gave me the following message:CHK 262Flibrary.cLine 4529Path 0000This problem is the X axis friction is too high for normal operation, which describe in the user's guide. ...

Hi,We have bought a Sun Fire V490R box and a StorEdge 3510 FC array. Also, we have installed 2 HBA cards into the V490R box. Right now I'm stuck into the direct-attach configuration (DAS) so that the V490R box directly connect to the SE 3510 FC array. I looked the sun documentation: 816-7300 ...

Hi all,Please let me know the difference between QLogic QLA2342 and SUN SG-XPCI2FC-QF2 HBA cards.I see there is a lot of cost variation between these two. TIA,Sarat.

Hi,I have some urgent questions: I want to set up raid 1+0 with only ONE LUN number for our SE 3510 FC array. After reading thru the 'raid firmware user's guide', I figured out that there possibly two methods to set it up:1) create one big raid1 logical drive with 12 physical disks and ...

Hi everyone -Thought I'd post this question here and see if I could get any feedback.We have a StorEdge 9990, the Sun version of the HDS USP 1100 TagmaStore.To this point, we've only put Solaris servers on the array, but would like to utilize it for our some of our Windows servers as well.We ...

Hi,i have configured cacti, via net-snmp with SUN servers & etc. I need help, with configure StorEdge 6920 to CACTI via net-snmp. Any help?

Hi, I have configured a new T3 for a secific server and config looks good. But on the server side I cannot get the T3 connected, after cfgadm an d/or devfsadm the new t3 coonection are not shown. there are still old connection which are no longer availabe and also I dont know how do get this ...

I have gotten back into Sun Solaris System Administration after a five year hiatus... My skills are a little rusty and some of the tools have changed, so here is are my questions...I have installed Solaris 10 release 1/06 on a Dell 1850 with an attached PowrVault 220v connected to a Perc 4 Di ...

Dear Storage Gurus,We are having problems enabling fibre channel multipathing. There are 18 drives and 'format' sees all of the paths (36), not GUIDs.Our landscape:OS: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-15 i86pc i386 i86pcSunFire X4100 (dual Opteron)HBAs: SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z (Sun PN 594-2385-01)CSC: ...

Greetings all,I have had some strange behaivor from one of my servers during the weekend. During a few hours between i have had 3 reboots + 500Mb VMCORE.0 file related to the following message below (as found in /var/adm/messages).Has someone else here have had the same error or something close ...

Greetings,At a planning meeting the other day, one of Suns storage gurus completely dismissed using 7+1 LDEV's and suggested 4+4 because we have an extreme requirement for reading (returning queries in a hurry from mind boggling record numbers) and some writing to a very large Oracle database. ...

I've recently managed to procure an old Sun Storedge a1000 and haven't a clue on how to get it set up. I have a Dell PERC 2 SCSI card running on a Windows 2000 machine.How do I set it up on this?Thanks.

I wanted to know what interface modules or hardware would I need to be able to have the V490 server successfully communicate with the 3510 FC Array?

Hello!I'm experiencing what I believe to be abysmal performance with a StorEdge 3320 RAID unit (two RAID cards installed, 12 73GB disks) hooked up to a Fire x4100 with U320 SCSI card installed.Whatever configuration I try, I am utterly unable to pass 40-50MB/s.The connection from host to 3320 ...

We have been seeing some very slow NFS response to our two 5310's. The problem increases as we get higher levels of activity. Doing a simple 'ls' in an NFS mounted directory will sometimes hang. No errors noted on 5310. No NFS errors reported by clients.Anybody have any thoughts on the ...

Hi , I have bought a SE6120 arrays attach to two Sun Fire 4800 as clustershared storage with Solaris 9 OS. I intend to upgrade the OS to Solaris 10. But after find the information at sunsolve.sun.com, it not mention about wether Solaris 10. Hope somebody will provide me solution..Thanks in ...

hi,i installed the RAID manager on my server Enterprise 220R, but during the installation it gave me this error:drvconfig: driver failed to attach: rdriverdrvconfig: driver failed to attach: rdriverRDAC daemons initiatedWARNING: set_drivers: No arrays were found that are controlled by either ...