Hi,We are using Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2 (II and SNDR) to do the remote missor. We want tomirror a VxVM volume on host A to host B. Host A is using Instant Imaging to create a shadow volume:/v0l1 -> /vol1-s (shadow volume)Then we want to mirror /vol1-s to /vol1 on host B. The ...

I have a box running Solaris8 patch-29, and I need to mirror the internal drives using DiskSuite. The system is already configured and operational. Since the person who build the box didn't forsee DiskSuite I have the following partition table for disk 0 (c0t0d0):0 root 0 - 16107.82gb1 ...

Hi,Anybody having experience using Sun StorEdge L280 drive.Also, explain me what are sun StorEdge arraysregardsVijay

Hi All,I have an A1000 Sun StorEdge disk array that is attached to an Ultra II server running solaris 9. Soon as I attached the A1000 disk array and powered the box up, the following errors started to show up in /var/adm/messages on the Ultra2:Jun 25 13:26:12 sec46 soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ...

Finished rackmouting some new to us 280R's and an A5200 array with 12 33.x GB drives, 6 front 6 rear. They show up in format, show up in luxvm, show up in discs with SMC2.1 which came on our 12/03 DVD release of solaris9. When I try to use the 'enhanced' disc choice in SMC it goes into never ...

I have a D2 array attached to a Sunfire 880 currently configured with Veritas Volume Manager. Can I obtain a RAID controller to replace my existing SCSI-3 controller so I can configure a hardware RAID (similar to the T3s) rather than a software RAID? I understand that the T3 s have a dual fiber ...

I met an A1000 fully populated with 12 disks.Format command is not seeing two of the disks again while probe-scsi-all sees only seven.When I added another disks to those slots , A1000 still did not se them.am planning to install Raid manager on it now.However my fear is will it erase the data ...

We've setup a v880 with 2 sun badged qlogic 2g hba's, fully patched the server, and connected it to a mcdata 4500 switch which also has a hitachi 9570 connected to it.We've sucessfully configured to 9570, created raid groups, luns, formatted luns and presented them to the controller etc, but ...

I am investigating the feasibility of clustering two 220Rs together in an Oracle 10g RAC configuration. Can I use a D1000 disk array for the shared storage between the two nodes? Can you briefly describe how to do it or point me to documentation on how to do it?

I have a L1000 Library with 2 Nos. of DLT7000 installed on it. Both the drives are chained and connected on E3500 thru Fast Wide Diff SCSI HBA. The Drive 0 is working fine and the Drive 1 gives trouble, the below are the observations / options tried:a) When the second drive (Drive 1) ...

Hi all,I have one 3510 and two servers. Each have one dual FC card. The servers were connected to the 3510 in DAS model.Can I use the Traffic Manager for the multipathing, load-balancing in this situation ? If yes, where can I get the document ? How to connect the cable ?Thanks in ...

any one has veritas volume manager for unix systems? can you make me a copy? i'll pay you some money too? i need it for a practice only?my email address is : bouadie2005@yahoo.comthanks.

Hello,Is it possible to connect a 220 to Sun Storedge A1000 using the onboard SCSI adapter (fast/wide scsi) ?cheers

Is it possible to connect an A5200 to an older Ultra 2? I have very little knowledge of Sun hardware and don't have the kit in front of me.

Hello Guru's,I will be adding eight seagate 73gb disks to my A1000's (Dual-host system connected to two E450).This system is live and as such I do not have any downtime. Using Veritas VM 3.01 Question 1: Is it okay to hot plug in these new disks when I/O activity is taking place ?Question 2: ...

Hi.I have troubles with AS 3.1 remote mirror software.When I reboot slave server, he lose label on HDD with remote mirror partitions.I have to install all patches that I find but it is not help me.Thanks.

Hello,I have an irritating problem with a V240 with 2 x (Qlogic 2200F) Sun-branded X6799A single-port 1gbit FC HBA's, a McData Sphereon fabric switch, and a Hitachi HDS 9570V SAN-fabric disk array.At present the switch sees the WWN of the HBA, and the HDS can see the HBA through the ...

Hi all,I have one old system with Sun enterprise 3500, storage A5000, Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.2, Solaris 2.6Now I want to upgrade to Solaris 8 but I could not find where is the Veritas key.Could you help me on how to find that key ? Does the Veritas VM on A5000 required a key ...

Hi Everyone, hoping someone can shed some light on my situation here.I'm trying to setup a SA3310 Array as a JBOD on a SunFire V880. - i have installed the Ultra3 SCSI LVD card and installed the patch that came on the CD-ROM with the card.- i have connected the array to the host in a Single ...

Hi,I have connected two A5200 on Sun V880 with 5.8. These are connected using Sun StorEdge 2G FC PCI Single channel network adapter. When ever I run luxadm command I am getting following messages in /var/adm/messages.Sep 13 14:09:22 dyncdw qlc: [ID 686697 kern.info] NOTICE: Qlogic qlc(1): Loop ...

Sunsolve says A5000 supports 36GB drives.is anybody using those on A5000?Are there any issues?

I have a D1000. It used to plug in to my 220r but now I want to use it with Fedora Core 1. Will this PCI SCSI Card http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/techspecs.jsp?sess=no&language=Eng lish+US&cat=%2FProduct%2FAHA-2944UW&prodkey=AHA-2944UWWork with the D1000? Educated guesses ...

We are facing a problem with Sun branded single port FC HBAs (Qlogic 2310F).We want to use HP Secure Path for multipathing with HP EVA 5000 SAN. FC HBA works fine with Sun qlc drivers and we are able to access the volumes on EVA5000. But HP Secure Path application is not able to see the FC ...

I'm a bit confused with what RAID levels the A1000 supports. On: http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/a1000/specs.htmlIt says that it supporst 1+0. In the raidutil manpage it say 1 isequivalent to 0+1 and there is no mention of 1+0. So what gives?I used raid manager 6.22.Thanks! ...

We are looking into buying an EVA 3000 from HP or something similiar from SUN, and I was wondering if the StorEdge 6920 is a product that we can compare against.Or should we look at smaller SUN systems (to keep it fair for EVA3000)Does there exist any charts showing StorEdge products against ...

Hi there;V210 - Ultra 160 Scsi multimode (SE/LVD)A1000 - Ultra Scsi - DifferentialCan these be used together? I've connected an A1000 to the back of a V210 andprobe-scsi-all doesn't see it. Not a good sign.Bob

Need to know the following....1. Using what command I can get........" from which disk the system is booted off " (primary or secondary or mirrror ... whatever)2. using which command I can find out which is the primary boot disk and which one is the secondary boot disk ORBefore installing OS in ...

Below is the output from running the "fru st" command on my T3. I do not understand why there are no statistics for the disks labeled "u2dX".This output is from 2 units paired together in a"partner group."Can anyone explain this for me?Thanks.=================================one:/:<17>fru ...

Hello,I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z(AMD opteron) box running64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.Both the 3510 and the V20z are sun products: http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/3000/3500/3510/ http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/I tested the 3510 by ...

hi,I'm trying to sort through the marketing rhetoric and find out exactly is sun StorEdge 6320 (with 6120s) supports FC-SW....?Right now I think FC-SW is not supported by 6320...The second question is about point-to-point topology...According to Sun online course (WE-2033: Storage Area Network ...

Hi,I see a terminal port on the back of my 3510.I assume I may use a terminal emulator to configure the array.What kind of cable and communication parameters do I need?I spent 15 minutes on google looking for the answer.Also I connected to the port via a straight through cable to my laptopand ...

Hello all,First: I have SunUltra 420R with OS solaris 8, Veritas Volume Manger version 3.5 + Storage A5000 connect to it.Now my question is: If I am going to up grade this server OS from 8 to 9, then will it just work? or some things that will break? Or any things that I sould know before the ...

Hi,I have a new SE3510 FC Array. I have created the Logical Drive, Volumes and mapped LUN O to the controllers. But I am not able to see the array from my v240 system running Solaris 9.prtconf shows that the driver is not attached for the Qlogic adapter. However the required driver packages ...

I have a sun Ultra 10 with Ultrascsi Storage Multipack. On the back of the same I can read the PN : 599-2235-01 and SN: 810G3036. I am trying to install and to read the content of 2 HDs Quantum VK 4550S Viking 3.5 series 4200 SCSI (VK45JZF1), I cannot lose the content of these HDs. My ...

Hi,I have a Brocade 3200 SAN switch with SFPs installed, an A5100 with 2 GBICs installed and 2 FC Sun Sbus cards installed in a sun server. I like to know what type of fiber channel cables I need to connect them. I know there is an LC and an SC but which ones I need here.Thanks ...

need to know have more details regarding recovery of applications which are running on a server with Solstice disk suite.I know we run metadb 杁 option for replacing bad disks when there is disk failure and metareplace for Sub Mirrors out of sync and are in maintenance state.I would appreciate ...

What's the least expensive option for hardware raid on an E250? It can't do internal hardware raid. The only "inexpensive" solutions I can find are a used A1000. I don't need 12 disks though.

How can I configure and modify Sun HBA parameters?Speed, time waits, fabric...etcSanblade or ezfibre doesnt recognize SUN HBASThanks in advance

Hi,I have recently added a Sun StorEdge 3310 unit to one of our Sun 280R servers, but this server seems not be recognizing the drives attached to the storEdge unit. Whenever I run the format command, I get :AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0<SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec ...

Hi,We are planning to have a FC based backup solution. And we might go for L25/L100. Here is the list of parts we are planning to order. Pl. let me know if we are missing something. Any suggestions on this is welcome.L25:-SG-XLIBL25LLV-BASE - Base unitSG-XFC420CARD-MOD - FC bridge for ...

hi,i have the following problem:a storedge 3310 with raid controller. i have partitioned the volume ( which consists of 6 raid 1 logical drives) into 4 partions and assigned luns to these partitions.probe-scsi-all shows the following:/pci@1e,600000/pci@2/scsi@4Target 0Unit 0 Disk SUN StorEdge ...

This appeared when creating raid1 drive: Bad Block Encountered(Ch:2,Id:0)Block Reassignment Succeeded(Ch:2,Id:0). Informational message. Drive may be failing.Does this mean that the drive should be replaced oris it ok to use it ? Does the array detects bad blocks durind normal operation ? ...

I have an A1000 with 4 72gb drives that I am getting ready to attach to a Sun v440. I have downloaded the latest rm6 software & patches. The OS is Solaris 9. I will add 8 more 72gb disks later. The A1000 will be used for Oracle DB. I do have Veritas Foundary Suite but I don't have to use ...

First time setup/config on:2 E4500's1 Brocade Silkworm 28001 Storedge A5200I can get to the Brocade WEBTOOLS and see the disks (WWN's) and config alias' and zones. I also used the "install_it" script to install SFS 4.4 on the 4500's and restarted them. However, cfgadm -al does not show the ...

Hi,I have a StorEdge 3310 unit with 10 -146GB disk drives. This unit is atttached to a SunFire 280R server running solaris8. Since solaris8 doesn't support luns bigger than 1TB, I had created 2 separate luns with the following specs:First lun= RAID5 using 5 disk drives & total size is ...

Hi all,i am facing a pecular problem with 6120 controller cards. I have two controller cards working in partner-pair mode. I am using snmpwalk and 6120 mibs to poll the controller IPs to get specific disk status info, which was successfully for a week or so. Gradually over the period, snmp ...

hi,all i encountered a question: in my env.,there are 2 v880 with 2 qlc2300 & cx600,i create a new lun and mapping to sun.on server side,i tape "devfsadm" but can not see new lun,i want to tape "cfgadm -c configure c2" for lun finding.but i am afraid that this action will interrupt the ...

hi there,i did only search the last 1,5 years for similar questions - sorry if this is should be repeating.we are using workgroup servers from v120 to 480r. some users/developers complained about poor harddisk performance indicated by long response times / iowaits.i know this isnt a scientific ...

Veritas has identified a failed disk in a D1000 but there is no indication on it for the hardware engineer to be sure which one he is replacing. Can we get the light on the D1000 to go out or something? Any suggestions?

Hello,I'm reconfiguring a 3510 with 2 controllers and 1 expansion unit. It will be the storage portion of a Veritas cluster, with 4 hosts directly attached and redundant paths managed by DMP.The best practices guide states:"For best performance and RAS, create logical drives across expansion ...