I have a problem with a "ghost" LUN showing up. When I try to use Raid Manager I get an error saying can n ot talk to controller. When I use the command line I can see one controller and it says there is a LUN, lun 8. When I try to remove this via the command line it says the controller has no ...

Hi My site has purchased a 3910 which inturn serves a 480. No one here has been given any training on this box (we were even shown how to get on it). Can someone explain how you log onto this box for example to shut it down. I note theres a 100 in the cabinet, should this be connected to the ...

I got 3 pairs of T3's attached to the SF 3800. I am planning to disconnect all the T3's perminentlyfrom that host. What procedure do i need to follow.Thanks.

Hello all,Do I need a license in order to use Veritas Volume Manger 3.* on Ultra Sparc with a Storedge Multipack unit?I have conflicting information and would be pleased to get a definitive answer. I am asking becuase I want to acquire equipment to learn VxVM at home.Thanks,Bryant ...

Hello,My company will buy a StorEdge 3960 soon. I have couple questions about the storage. My first question is since StorEdge 3960 already has 16 ports switch built in, do I need to buy a different switch (ex. Silk worm 3800) to connect between my servers to the storage?. My second question is ...

Currently, we have an E420 with several D1000 (JBOD) arrays configured with Volume Manager.We want to attach an A1000 array to the same server.Is it possible to use Volume Manager with the A1000, and if yes what are the steps needed to accomplish this task?Thanks in advance for any assistance. ...

Hi,I have a V880 server with 2 separate diff cards., and a L180 with 2 tape drives. I have tried various ways to connect them up to get the tape drives / robot recognised. I have installed Veritas Netbackup and am using the scsi passthru driver. The only way that seems to recognise everything ...

Gentlmen, I inherited disk array. There is no model/type or anything like that. All I have is Part number and Serial number. Is there a way can I find manual for this Array using Part or Serial number? thanks in advanceJ

I have a DDS3 autoloader, but it doesn't look like it "auto" loads. I has a 6-tape cartridge, but it seems like you can only load one individual tape at a time from the 6-tape cartridge and when the first tape is full I have to manually load the second tape or backup will not continue.... Am I ...

From a script, I would like to check if a disk slice starts on cylinder 0 - something that I could use in a test. I would rather not use a format commnad file since this would be an extra file to be copied to each system. Any suggestions?

I have spent a lot of time benchmarking Tape SAN performance with an E15kand several Crossroads 8000 FCAL routers front-ending an L700 tape librarywith SDLT320 Drives and I am seeing something very strange yet 100% reproducible.For those of you not familiar with the Crossroads 8000, it has 2 x ...

I remotely manage several Sun hosts with T3s attached. I inherited these from other admins and other part of the business as it has been reorganized over the years. As such I have never seen these hosts as some of them are up to 2000 miles away. I also do not have access to the original ...

How do you find the WWN for a Sun/Qlogic HBA?Thanks,

I have replaced a battery for cache in A1000 and marked the specific LUN to use caching.An * appears in that specific LUN line which indicates that caching cannot be activated because of battery problems. The log indicates the same.It's a new battery. Does it need some time for getting ...

Hello all,Newbie sysadmin question here. I am attempting to attach a Storedge L9 to a netra that was just build with Solaris 8. My problem is that when i attach it the library (via scsi cable) the netra becomes unable to see its disks (and attempts to boot from the network if i reboot the ...

I need a storage sub-system(s) with no single point of failure based on T3 arrays, and nothing but T3 arrays. In an environment where the volume of data will fit on a single array, the cost of mirroring vs partner-pair is broadly similar - I'll need two arrays either way. However, if the data ...

Does anyone know Sun's official stance on the JBOD version of the 3510 fc array (i.e. no controller card as listed in the 'basic' config on the store website)?I've got email from Sun stating that the 3510 JBOD is not qualified for mpxio enabled systems (and isn't scheduled until October ...

Does A1000 work with E420R? My friend told me Sun hardware is very picky in terms of what you can attach to what type of servers. I looked up A1000 manual but did not find E420R is OFFICIALLy supported server for A1000.Thanks,

Can you enlarge a Lun after it's created and has data on it without destroying it recreating the LUN and restoring from backup?

I need help figuring which scsi card should be used for this array. the array has WD2S Single-Ended to Differential Interface Card, 370-2196. to be utilized by ultra60/solaris9. I do not need a speed burner, more so, a functional card so I can use the array. if you have any ...

Hi!I am designing a tool which would make recommendations on re-use of existing hardware and suggestions for procurement of new. For the disk subsystem part, I would need some basic "relative performance" figures for the following disk subsystems:1. Internal disks of a SunFire V8802. D10003. ...

Hi, We are facing problem in configuring StorEdge 3300 inSunFire 280R. We have a StorEdge 3300 (JBD) containing 5 X36GB disks. We do not have any controller in this. We wouldlike make these disks accessible at OS level using formatutility. When we execute probe-scsi-all at Boot prompt weget the ...

Hi ALL:does anybody know is it possbile to connect A1000 and 3310 SCSI with RAID controller in chain ?Actually I have two SunFire V480 servers one of which has X6541A Ultra SCSI DIF Card installed and linked up to A1000 and other server with X6758A Dual-Channel Ultra3 Differential SCSI ...

Hi all,A couple of things...1. We have 2 storedge 3310 and two machines with Ultra3 Adaptors. I can not see the 3310 using the Ultra3 adaptors. If I plug the 3310 into the host controller I can see it, (but that is not ideal as it is running slow). at the 'ok' prompt I can see the 3310, but I ...

Ok, I齧 having this problem and I齧 not sure what it is. I齰e connected a L25 to a V1280 and when I probe-scsi-all, I can see it. BUT after doing a boot 齬, the device doesn齮 show up in /devices. I also did devfsadm & drvconfig/tapes to no avail. Below it what I have as output from the above. ...

Hi all,I have a question regarding StorEdge 3500FC raid module and I/O (JBOD) module.I could understand that JBOD I/O expansion unit can be attached with Raid Array.How about JBOD I/O expansion itself?Is it possible to attach this JBOD/IO expansion unit into Unix machine without Raid controller ...

I would like to configure my FC3510 with RAID 1+0. I tried rebuilding the RAID from scratch, but the only RAID level options are 0,1,3 and 5. Does anyone know the best way to accomplish this?Thanks,Bert

Hi,I am getting the following Error message when the A/C is off on the server room. My server is E-420R attached to A1000 array.raid: [ID 702911 user.error] AEN event Host= xxxxx Ctrl=1T92 681716 Dev=c2t5d0Can any one please let me know why I am getting this error ? How to solver it ...

Following scenario:I want to set up an Sun Cluster 3 enviroment. For that I have two Netra T1 (200) and two D1000.The Netra T1 has only one SCSI interface on borad, so I added an PCI SCSI/Ethernet combocard in both server. Now I am able to write data from each server to each disk array.But the ...

Can any one help? Do I need an additional ultra SCSI adapter for Sun Fire 280R to continue to StorEdge A1000?Also do I need any software?Thanks

Hi ,I have SunStoreEdge Availabilty suite3.1What is the difference b/w SunStoreEdge Availabilty suite3.1 & SunStoreEdge Volume Manager.Can I use SunStoreEdge Availabilty suite3.1 to create volumes?I am basically trying to create a volume to support Oracle Applications 11i on Solaris 8. Can ...

I'm currently trying to connect a E4000 server to a Storedge A5100. I've connected them using a fiber connection but nothing happens. I'm using Solaris 8 on the server.i have two places where i can plug in fiber. one that is on a daughterboard and the other integrated into the blade. which ...

anyonre know how to fix the problems with Sun FC-100 (X6730A). here is the problem I ran Solaris 9 on Sun Ultra 2 with that FC-100 install and connect to A5000. I had all the lastest firmware and patch for it, I was able to put the OS on the array and boot off of that. however when I load ...

Hi All,I was thinking does the sun T3 array really require any external UPS protection?From the specification, inside the PCU there exists an UPS battery.Upon power failure, the internal battery will last long enough to flushout the cache data. an i right?

Hi, All .. Can some one please clarify or suggest me some docs which speaks about controller, target, disk ... iam getting some confusion between taregt and a disk... also what is LUN and how do i define it

Hello,I'm running Solaris 8 on a Neta 20. I have 3 StorEdge 3510 FC arrays attached; one controller each array. Each has 12x146 drives for a total of 2TB each array. As this if my first time dealing with this array, I need some advise. I configured my first array with one logical drive and 4 ...

Hi ,Is there any certification exam i can take from veritas directly for veritas volume manager 3.2Please provide details for the same.regds,Suraj

Hi all,I am using A1000 with 12 disks, I have divided them into 2 parts. One part occupies 25% and the other do the rest. Now I want to see the detailed information of every disk inside the storage, such as disk vendor or their capacity, I use the format command to see but i just can see the ...

I have a 3510 storage array 12 disks / and support for 4 hosts, LUNS are created and assigned as 4 300Gb raid 5 devices. The plan is to direct connect 2 sun servers a HP and a AIX server.Both sun servers work fine - in fact if I move the cables around they can see all 4 LUNS,My AIX server is ...

Hi,We have Sun fire V880, E4500 & E3000 server. And also have 3910 series storedge array with one pairof T3+ Box in RAID 5 configuration. I want to setup SAN with the above requirements. Is it possible in 3910 series storedge array. Becoz in 3910 series array, 2nos - 8 port FC switch only. ...

Hi,sorry for my english. Is there a chance to set a 6120 brick to 100Mbit FullDuplex Autoneg off?Thanks

Hi All,We have an L9 that seems to have a bad tape drive - I've gone through all of the diagnostics in the manual and the drive will just not respond with any of the front panel commands. This just happened while I was switching tapes. I'm trying to find the best approach to fixing this but ...

Good day,Whatis the differnce bettween the A5000 and the A5100, I can see none, am I wrong?bnitz

Hi,I have a StorEdge D2 filled with 12 36 gig drives, attched to the onboard external SCSI port on the back of an E220R.However, I cant get the system to recognize the drive tray. If I do a probe-scsi-all from the ok prompt, I get this:/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1Fatal SCSI errorat script address 10 ...

Hi everyone. I've been experiencing some problems with a T3 unit. I can create the volume with:vol add v1 data u1d1-8 raid 5 standby u1d9but when trying to initialize the volume withvol init v1 dataI gotWARNING - Volume data will be initialized to zero.WARNING - Volume initialization can take ...

Hi i have an E220R running SunRay 2.0 but also require it to use samba to backup ghost images to a D1000. Problem is that ive never setup a D1000 array, and have no idea how to do it...are there any walkthru's or step by step instructions on how to do this? Im running Solaris 9 on the box and ...

Hi I have the following problem, about a week ago I installed a Sun Storedge 3310 on a Sun Fire V440 host, at the time I didn't read the docs properly, and connect the pci dual ultra 3 card from the host to channel 0. I know it's a mistake from some reading I did since then, because channel 0 ...

I am getting ready to attach two T3's to a sun-fire 880, running solar 5.8.The storage will be directly attached through fiber controllers.Do I need any drivers or are they part of OS? Any gotchas?thanks--irfan

I people.I'm new to the storedge configuration.I have a Sun storedge 3510 - 2 controllers with 2 x host port fc and 1x drive port each.I want to do a simple configuration - connect 1 host to the storedge with failover.It's correct to connect the 2 controllers using the drive port - because i ...

Hi all, I'm having some trouble making a specific configuration for the storedge 3310, I'm making a script using sccli utility, for my configuration I have to remove all the configuration that storedge comes with by default, but I must do so using sccli. When I remove both host luns I can't ...