Hi,I am setting up an E3500 with Solaris 10 u2 attached to an A5000 with 14x 18.2Gb HDD through an FC100/S. The drives are all part number 390-0011. The drive that you will see below is being problematic has been swapped out three times with different drives that are known to work on other ...

Hello FC folks,Have been completely unable to find an answer on the webto this question regarding the 3510 FC array...Can 2 Sun Sparc hosts, running Solaris 10 11/06, both direct attached,safely, mount/access the same LUN ?Know you can have hosts mount independent LUN's. Aware of LUNmasking, ...

Dear all,did someone among you ever came across the following issue(s):Assumed someone would use TrueCopy to provide a HW replication generated copy of an OPEN-3 volume (source) to an OPEN-9 volume (target) (or similar with SRDF from a source that is smaller in size than the target). I would ...

Anyone out there using an L100 tape Library?We have one and every 3-4 month it requires service. It always seems to be that the picker assembly can't properly remove the tape from the tape drive which brings the whole library down. Power cycle and recalibrate the robot fixes it for 1 minute to ...

Goal: Trying to get 1 machine - with dual HBAconnected to dual controllerProblem: Unable to get redundant connection to work,HBA port 2 - all lights flashing.2 green lights flash at lower controller port 5 also- looks like 2nd port isn't active ?Tried: swapped cable, swapped SFP, swapped chan, ...

Hi allConfiguration:1. Sun X4200 with LSI Ultra320 SCSI HBA 2. Axus DemonRaid disk array3. Solaris 10 x64 11/06 (without last kernel patch from 29.01.07)During boot LSI controller checks the scsi-bus and see the arrayHBA ID LUN VENDORPRODUCT REV SYNC WIDE CYL/ HD/SEC -- -- - -- -- - 01 2 Demon ...

I am running into a problem. The vxconfigd deamon always dump core when rebooting.Our environment is listed below.OS environemt.SunOS server1 5.8 Generic_117350-43 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240Software installed.Sun Cluster 3.0 Veritas Volume Manager 4.0 MP2. Disk Array associated.Sun StorEdge ...

Hi all,Really need some advice regarding a 3510FC array. We currently have a dual-controller setup with a RAID array + JBOD expansion. Each array has 10 drives, which we've setup as two RAID5 LD's as 8 data, 1 parity + 1 hotspare. The array firmware is 4.15.Performance isn't good. We can't ...

Greetings,We've been using a few 3510's as DAS for the last few years. I'm looking at making some changes to the current config for one 3510 (dual RAID ctlrs) connected to a V880 (2x1.2GHz CPU, 4GB RAM). The 3510 is currently at firmware 413C which appears to need an upgrade from what I've ...

Hi,I'm looking for a CLI Guide for a SL500.Also, I need to know what is the default IP Address for the public LAN on a SL500.I'd appreciate any help.Regards.

Hi All,NAS 5210 user quota settings displays wrong usage space.We have set a quota of 15gb per user. Case No1: Two of the user directories contains 8.1gb of data and user is not able to copy any more data.When we check the status of the quota settings it displays used space as 16GB(which double ...

Hello experts,I'm trying to connect a Sunfire 280R to an eva8000, I've installed the fibra cards and I've done a probe-scsi-all and I can see all the cardsa san :-ok probe-scsi-all/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4LiD HA LUNPort WWN-- Disk description -- 000 21000004cf780993 SEAGATE ST336605FSUN36G ...

I磎 trying to download CAM 5.1 software (16.Feb.07) but always get "File not found" error. Does anybody know if there is some problem with the link?.Best Regards.

This is a metastat output from JBOD(3310) connected to v480 running Solaris 9:d40: RAIDState: Needs Maintenance Invoke: metareplace -f d40 c2t4d0s0 <new device>Interlace: 32 blocksSize: 427034670 blocks (203 GB)Original device:Size: 427034880 blocks (203 GB)DeviceStart Block DbaseState ...

Hi all,One of the hdd in A1000 has failed, we got a new hdd to replace it. Questions:-1. Is the method to replace the hdd the same with D1000?2. Is it necessary to reboot the server?3. Do i need to shut down all running application?Thanks

Currenly,One system v240 is installed with 2x Emulex LP10000 and the other system V480 is installed with 2x qlogic Amber 2 HBA with Fcode I SP2300 Host Adapter Driver: 1.14.01.The two system (v240 and V480) each HBA is connected to 2 x McData 4400 switch.The 2 X StorageTek 6140 also has 2 ...

Hi guys, Does anyone see the following error message in the /var/adm/messages? Should I have to replace this faulty disk?Mar 6 11:06:21 balrog scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1d,700000/scsi@1/sd@5,0 (sd36):Mar 6 11:06:21 balrog Error for Command: write(10)Error Level:RetryableMar 6 ...

Good afternoon,I need to replace a drive in a 4500 Series device. We're currently using:Segate 36GModel Number: ST136403FCFirmware: 144APart Number: 9L7004-024Serial Number: LT474215Under the second UPC on the drive's label, the numbers 3900012-04 appear. So here are my questions:Can anyone ...

there is any GUI for Traffic manager(mpxio\STMS)?ecapt from CLI luxadm\cfgadm?

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Or I got wrong cards ?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 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). ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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,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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...