Hi experts,My commpany purchased a StorEdge 3510FC and one expansion unit, equiped with a SunFire V490 server with Solaris 10 3/05. I just make DAS connections between server and 3510FC. When it powered on, I checked the result and I found there is nothing else by using cfgadm. root@walden # ...

I have a question about the 6130 and storage domains. We have the default 8 domains and would like to license more. What are my choices for adding domains?Thanks andhave a good day,Glen

I'm able to find my way to the 9840 product page but I'm unable to find available firmware updates, only drivers. Specifically I need to check the firmware revisions for a 9840, 9840B, and a 9730. I realize they may no be no longer supported, but on the 9840C page I can't even find firmware. ...

Hello all,I've connected a sunfire V240 to an hp eva8000 san using FCA-2257P 2GB FC HBA cards, it connects up fine I can mount the disk from the eva but when I boot the server I get the following errors at bootup and in the /var/adm/messages file:-Errors at boot up:-WARNING: ssfcp_create_pip: ...

So I am getting a 3510 and an 880 and a v490 both with 1 dual channel HBA each. From the docs, it appears that I want to use Point-to-Point connection. I want to use mpxio and take advantage of the dual controller in the 3510. So, I am thinking:Attach 880 HBA1 to Port 0 on top controller.Attach ...

Hi All,I have configured StorEdge 3320 with three logical drives:- 8 disks in Raid 5 (7 Active and 1 Spare;each drive is 72 GB)- 2 disks in Raid 1 (each drive is 72 GB)- 2 disks in Rain 1 (each drive is 72 GB)Created one partition of each logical drive (total 3 partitions)I have updated the ...

I have a Sun StorEdge A3500FC e a server Sun Enterprise 4500.Would I like to know if I can boot from the SAN, because I don't have internal disk in this server.Could anybody give me a hand?

Has anyone been able to get Veritas 6.0 to recognize a cleaning tape?

Hi-We have S10x86 01/06 on aV40z system, and Red Hat Linux 2.6.9.11 on a V20z system.Both are using Qlogic 2462 hbas (Sun branded). The Solaris system is patched to June 06 EIS level, the Linux system has the latest Qlogic driver from Qlogic (8.01.04-3).We hook a single path from each server to ...

Hi,I'm trying to backup some filesystems to a StorEdgeL8 jukebox but it is refusing to work... tho it all worked flawlessly last month.(I'm quite happy to admit it could be something i'm doing wrong...)If i run nwadmin and do a 'startnow' under Customize -> Groups. the process all ...

Hi All,How do I access Sun Storedge C4 through browser?Any specific port numbers?Ashraf.

We are considering attaching a 3510 to a Sun Fire 3800. The 3800 uses cPCI bus, and we have a X6748A Dual fiber controller in it. However, in the Sun systems handbook, StorEdge 3510 is not listed as supported against X6748A. But the 3511 is supported... The handbook only lists X6748A as ...

Hello,One of our performance teams is experiencing lockups when they try to run light sequential workloads with 2 Qlogic 2342 Fibre Channel HBAs on the same PCI bridge. During these runs, they are also seeing this message quite frequently:Aug 24 07:16:44 v40z2 kernel: warning: many lost ...

Hi All,I have L8 autoloader with 8 tape media- 8th is a cleaning tape.In the first try I have set up jukebox and was able to backup the server where I have Sun Storedge Enterprise BackUp Software 7.2 is installed and another XP client. But I noticed that for Day 2 the -volume was backing it on ...

Storage folk,Please help me clarify my understanding of this situation.I have recently recieved new 6130 RAID's and I am charged with configuring them. I am familiar with many models of Sun RAID's including 6120, 3510, and A1000. But this 6130 seems to work differently then all of them. If I ...

HiI have a c2 autoloader, am is trying to backup and restore to a client. Howerver i am getting the following error mesages.when save:save: SYSTEM error: Permission denied, user 'root' on 'client1' does not have 'Backup local data' privilege.save: Cannot open save session with server1when ...

SUN Ent 220R server cant detect external compaq disk array.need help troubleshooting.

Hi- I have a bunch of V40z's, two internal drives, mirrored using the raidctl utility. Our end customer requires the ability to determine serial numbers of drives. Normally a format would dump this out, but with raidctl active it just shows a single "virtual drive" without serial number. A ...

I have recently acquired several 6130 units. I am having problems discovering these units after I installed "SUNWstade". I connected the 6130 directly to the management host using crossover ethernet cables as defined in the documentation. Even though I have connected both ports directly to the ...

Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...

Hi guys, According to customers' requirement, I should find a best way to have maximum capacity of SE3510 FC + 3510 EU. Each unit contains 12 disks. I think I have to setup 1 global spare disk for each box. Therefore, I have totally 22 300G disks for configuration. I would like to gain more ...

Hi,We抳e a 3-node e2900 cluster with se6920 storage into production primarily as a database server. The database is performing as fast as we expected and no complaints there, however we are noticing some behaviour on the globally mounted ufs partitions that we did not expect to see?br>Writing ...

Hi friendsMy sun server v240 conncted with storage array.whenever, I run scsi related commands like cfgadm or probescsi to configure something I'm getting plenty of scsi errors.... genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: glm0: fault detected in device; service still availablescsi: [ID 107833 ...

Hi AllPlease help, i get the error below. This happens if there is already a tape inside the drive and its not the actual tape that is being scheduled to use. 09/18/06 17:30:05 nsrd: [Jukebox `StorEdgeC2', operation # 7]. Cannot find an available nsrmmd service for operation on device ...

Hi,I have an Emulex LP 9000 HBA installed in a Sun Fire 280R server.If i upgrade the server to Sun Fire V245, I wonder if this particular HBA will work in the new server. Appreciate your input on this issue. Thanks.Regards,Alan

I upgraded EBS from 6.1 to 7.3 recently. and I notice that the daily scheduled backup uses only one of my two tape drives for daily backup. EBS6.1 used all the two tape drives for daily backup.

Hi, Gurus:I just purchased a Sun StorEdge 3300. Sun only send me Sun StorEdge 3320 datasheet. I can not find 3300 datasheet from internet too. To avoid the basic mistakes, could you help me to clear following two basic questions.[1] All sun storEdge 3000 works in the same way ( we can use 3320 ...

Hello,since I am running a D240 connected to my Fire V20z with a Quantum DLT VS80 Streamer I am suffering from SCSI speed problems.The Fire V20z is running under Fedora Core 5.The D240 is connected through an Adaptec AHA 29160 SCSI controller.When I am running a tar cvf /dev/st0 /HTTP on the ...

Hi Friends My V880 server's /var/adm/messages file is showing the below error- --Sep 21 08:33:41 mum1pp1-a-fixed SUNW,UltraSPARC-III: [ID 332531 kern.info] [AFT2] errID 0x00000709.621043d0 PA=0x000000c0.f9d6a9c0Sep 21 08:33:41 mum1pp1-a-fixedE$tag 0x00000181.f3400080 E$state_7 ExclusiveSep 21 ...

I have seen this already (forwarded earlier by Sam Schubnel) and have tried this. The some commands don't work (Example: rmformat -l returns with error "no such option" and also such option does not show on my man pages.) and there is no mention of Firewire. I suspect that since this blog ...

Hello All,Are SUN StorEdge c2 and Sun Storagetek C2 the same ? or are they 2 different products.ThanksVenkat Jupalli

Could an A5200 storage support bigger disk to 73GB ?

Does anyone know the most current firmware revisions for these two models? I am unable to find this information anywhere on this site and I've looked extensively. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

cannot see ADIC I2000 robot tape drives when running inquire -l command on Solaris 10.Using Legato Networker 7.3.1 - legato is unable to see tape drives on Unix server. No problems with Windows. fibre cards are Emulex LP10000.Could anyone help?

I'm trying to setup 2 6140's.One of the issues I'm encountering is that the maximum volume size seems to be2tb. This limit is easily reached with the newer 500gb disks. Is there a way to create larger volumes ?

Is there a way to see NVRAM size and RAID stripe size in the T3's inside the 3910 storage array?My firmware ver is T3B Release 3.1.6

I've got a pair of T2000s hooked up to an IBM FASTT500 SAN, each with a dual-port Emulex card. One machine was hooked up by the Sun technician... it talks to the SAN without issue, with MPxIO turned on. I can add and remove disks (though not resize existing disks, but that's not a big deal) ...

Hi1. what is luxadm software ?I have heard that luxadm is administration program for storage anditz an old methodwe have storedges like 3320,3510 etc ..2.can we use this luxadm for this ?3. if you know any other new software for this please let me know ?Thanks in ...

I acquired a SPARCstorage [tm] Array Model 214 RSM [tm] and have a couple of questions.1. When the unit is powered up it lights all the drives and you can hear them spinning, then one by one the lights turn off and the drives power down but the red power led is still lit. What is happening here ...

I tried to label some EMC disk which have been connected to our sun server butthe system tells me:Specify disk (enter its number): 33selecting c8t500604844893D43Cd0[disk formatted]Disk not labeled. Label it now? yesWarning: error writing VTOC.Warning: no backup labelsWrite label failedanybody ...

I have a StorEdge T3 and would like to try out some features of ZFS. I had hoped to delete the raid volumes on my T3 so I could work with the raw disks - like a JBOD - for my ZFS pool, but the documentation makes it appear I need to create either raid 0,1,or 5 LUNS. It is possible to use this ...

Hello , using iostat I am getting the following outputs : us sy wt id 0 8 0 91extended device statistics r/sw/skr/skw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device0.00.20.00.1 0.0 0.00.015.200 c00.00.00.00.0 0.0 0.00.00.000 c0t1d00.00.00.00.0 0.0 0.00.00.000 c0t2d00.00.00.00.0 0.0 0.00.00.000 ...

刋The Sun StorEdge 3120 SCSI Array is a JBOD system that appears to acts like a RAID 1 storage device. What happens when disk fails? Does it failover to the other drive with itˇs data intact?If so, how does this happen?

We have been using a storedge 3310 array configured as one biglogical device on the primary controller. Its attached to a v480 server.The array has been previously configured and running our apps forsome time.I installed the Storedge Configuration Service Agent, CLI, and DiagnosticReporter ...

Hi, i am relatively new to sun hardware. can anyone tell me how to update the firmware to the newest level on a 6020/6120 Storedge array? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi,I have a solaris host which is having qla2642(4gig) hba card. Now I want to load sun leadville driver in that. I downloaded san foundation suite(SFS)4.4.10. But i need the sun fcode as well.This setup i want to use for sun mpxio.can any one guide me how can I convert qla2642 hba to sun qlc, ...

Help please, we had our administrator quit and we are trying to install a 3310 array with raid controller that we moved from another location, but it is asking for the password. We cannot get a hold of the person that administered the array. Please any help would be appreciated.

Hi, We are facing 100% CPU utilisation in NAS header.Which is making our applications to perform very very poorely....The stange thing is this that we have just oocupied 25 % of the loads of NAS as planned.Please provide your suugesstions and comments if any one has ever faced the same ...

Hi allCan anybody tell me where can I find the installation and configuration doc for sun storagetek FLX 380 storage. thanks and regards

I have inherited an SL500.Can anyone help me with setting it up in NetBackup? I have tried to connect to the interface via ssh but it won't accept the password. Is there anyway to reset the password? And what would the default password be? Also once its reset is ssh the best/only way to ...