Hi all,To follow up on my prior 3510 config questions - has anyone actually used a 3511 JBOD as an expansion unit on the 3510? I read in the release notes for the 3511 that this is supported, but I'm hoping for feedback from someone that's actually tried it.

Hi all. Sorry for my english.I have E4800 server, T3 array and SAN. My server have 2 FC adapters. One for T3, other for SAN (HP EVA5000, QLA2300). After reboot I see:qlc driver trying attach to both FC adapters, but cannot attach to QLA2300. I installed driver qla2300 from HP.com, but not ...

Hello,I am having a problem recognizing an L25 library. Details of my hardware -I have tried using two different Netra T1 200 systems, with latest OBP (1.0.17), with a PCI dual differential scsi card (375-0006/X6541A). I have verified that the card is supported in the netra, and L25 is ...

Hi all,I'm running a system with a 4TB md device (made up of 4 luns from my attached storedge systems). On that, I created a UFS filesystem, which gives me nearly 4 TB storage available.However, lately, I got the "out of inodes", as we have 4 million files stored on this filesystem. However, ...

We are considering a move to Solaris 10 and want to know if the current SAN foundation is the proper version to use. Thanks!

Hi all,does anybody connected a 3510 with 2 FC hba on a single host under solaris 2.6 ?The second hba should be used as failover , but instead we see twice the 3510 .Any suggestion ?Thanks,pat@98usb

Hi all,I am using a SunFire with Solaris 9. It has connect with SCSI cable a StoreEdge 3310, JBODIn Solaris I type init 0 and ok> "probe-scsi-all" and i can see 7 disks, 2 internal and 5 StoreEdge. but when I am in Solaris, I type "format" and I only see 2 disks internal. How I can to ...

I am looking for a simple replacement for our current SAN array. We currently have an EMC 3930 with Brocade Silkworm 2800 switches utilizing 1 gig GBIC's. Our business needs have changed and we no longer need the large expense of the EMC. We would like to integrate our existing switches with a ...

Hi,I need to know whether Sun StorEdge?Availability Suite is suppored on the 3510 disk array.Thanks

We have to sell to a customer a storage solution with faster drive for database , sata for capacity and nas.The ideal choice would be 3510 with 15k drives and 3511 with 250gb sata , but at present cannot mix 3510 raid with 3511 jbod .Will this feature be available in the near next future ...

Hi,allI can not find the HCL.( http://access.sun.com/drivers/hcl/hcl.html can not be access) Anybody can tell me?THX

hi everyone,I am facing this problem with Sun StorEdge L8 problem.When I do a probe-scsi-all at the ok prompt,it detects the presence of my Sun StorEdge L8.But when I do a mt stat command at root, it doesn't detect it.for your information, there are 3 tapes in my Sun StorEdge L8. I am using ...

HI all, I am new here.I just set up my first SunFire 440 database server with one 3310 RAID (12 x 36GB) controller and one EXPANSION (12 x 36GB) controller.I am using the Ultra3 SCSI PCI card (with the most recent drivers). Updated solaris 9 patch cluster. Updated 3310 firmware (I think it is ...

Hello all,I ran into another problem. After clearing out the RAID controller configuration on the Storedge 3310, I did a reboot. Now I cannot detect the RAID controller (or the RAID Array) using ssconsole (Storedge 3000 Family Configuration Service Program).However, I can detect the 3310 using ...

can somebody tell me the difference between the raid manager, veritas volume manager, solaris disk suit.Regardsajain12

Hi,Setup: SE3310 with 1 Logic Drives about 70GB RAID 1 configuration (total space is 140GB without RAID 1). Problem: I mounted the Logic Drive by editing the /etc/vfstab file:eg/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0c1 /MM3 ... etcThe mount was successful so I created a file system with newfs ...

I have a sun storedge multi-pack connected to two ultra 5's with solaris 9 on it but I couldn't use the drives as shared meaning i cannot mount the shareddevice on both machine. I tested it by only connecting the multipack to a single ultra 5 either of the two ultra sees the drives and can be ...

Hi all, I have a DAT 72 that I am trying to connect to a Sunfirev440. I cannot detect the /deDAT 72 using the command:mt -f /devv/rmt/0 statusI get back: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directoryAt the command prompt, I checked to see if the system can detect it by typing:ok> probe-scsi-allAnd ...

Hi, Does anyone have any information on this exam: Sun Certified Data Management Engineer (Veritas Volume Manager)?I want to get some storage management skills but not sure if this is a good start.Thanks.

Good Day,I just took over admining 4 T3's , one of them has a password, the others I can loginas root and passord is the return key. I've hit return to prevent booting the array and atthe T3 prompt I issue the set passwd command. I've issue'd reset and boot to the T3,When in comes up it ...

I have attempted to attach an A1000 (bought used) to an Ultra 10 (Solaris 2.7 w/ all 7_Recommended patches, RM 6.1.1U2 with patch 106552-04.) I am using a Sun Differential Ultra SCSI card with a Sun VHDC to HD68 cable and a Sun Terminator.After a boot -r, the /dev/rdsk/ symbolic links are not ...

We would like to know the recommended procedure to replace a failed and/orfailing drive on 2 - 6800's with two multi-pathed A5000's. We haveexperienced multiple devices when doing a "vxdctl enable", thus not beingable to import the drive back into Veritas control - Unless we reboot theservers ...

Hello all!I have a question: can I mix 73GB disks with 18GB disks in A5x00 disk array? As far as I know it is possible to mix different scsi disks in D1000. What about FC-AL disks?Thank you, Pavel .

I have a Ultra2 running 2.6 and using Disksuite 4.1. After a reboot the meta disks did not mount, the metadb had no exisiting databases. I can run all of the metadb command with no problem, but we I try to do a metadb -a -f /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 I get a dump with a metadb:alignment error. Any help? ...

Hi...a couple of months ago we purchased the following tape device:StorEdge LTO Gen2 SCSI Desktop Tape DriveI am trying to get it to work with my Sunfire 480; however, I am having a tough time figuring out how to 'see it'...If I run 'test-all' at the ok prompt I can see it with a ...

Hi all,can I have your advice, please? we've got a lot of replacements on our A500 disk array during last months, why disks can be damaged so quickly? what points to check? thanks in advanceDamian

We have a StorEdge L8 with LTO-1 tapes that I use for nightly backups. Unfortunately the backup times are slower then I would likeufdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /usr/data1-gets me only2797 KB/secEven setting the block size using ufdump 0ubf 512 /dev/rmt/0n- yields the same resultAny ideas or help will ...

I have just installed a 6320 system. The installation is done and all the volumes are up and running. I'm able to see the volumes from different hosts using LUN masking. However the overall health status is shown as DEGRADED. Why is this? The other thing is that some pools have a status of ...

I am rebuilding an old E450 as a DR standby, and I am having trouble getting the server to see an A5200.Server is running solaris 9 patch rev Generic_117171-07OBP 3.22.0 2000/12/20 16:31POST 6.1.0 2000/12/20 16:32the server has 12 disks in it.I have the fcal's in slot 5 & 6 did a boot ...

i am an oracle dba doing troubleshooting of some unusual high volume of disk access. just a bit puzzled now.when i do a sar -d output19:44:47device%busyavquer+w/s blks/s avwait avserv19:44:52nfs1 00.0000.00.0....................sd35 00.0010.00.7sd35,c00.0000.00.0sd35,h00.0010.00.7sd305 ...

Hi All,I have a Sunsparc station 20 that has a 50 pin scsi connection in the back (yeah I know it is old but, do not have extra cash to spend). Anyway, I would like to add an external storage device to this like SUN Netra D130. The storage SUN Netra D130 has Ultra wide scsi 68 pin. My question, ...

Hi,I have a fiber channel array SE3510 attached to a V440. When creating metadb and after a reboot I get the Master block error (when running this command "metadb -i" )Thanks for any help,

We have a SE 6920 and would like to test the extend volume functionality. I have extended a volume (from 40GB to 45GB). As far as the 6920 software is concerned the volume has been extended and is now 45GB. However on the host, the disk still shows as 40GB. Even format still sees it as a 40GB ...

I have configured mirror on root hard disk on intel machine solaris 2.9.Configured RAID5 (d50) on single disk on 03 partition(s0, s1 and s3).My RAID 5 hard disk is faulty. I want to clear the d50 configuration from system. I gave a command " metaclear -f d50 "It gave me error saying "meta ...

I want to upgrade the firmware from 327P to 411 on my 3510 storage array. I installed 113723-10 then ran the s3kdlres which ran then prompted me to run the command: "sccli 10.10.10.20 download ses-firmware <fn>". I inserted the full path to the SUN411I-3510.bin file that came with the ...

Well, I am sure you have been in there. The admin left a nobody seems to know the root password for the T3.Can it be recovered WITHOUT loosing ANY data ?

Dare all, I have a Sun machine to which I connected 4 D1000 Disk arrays, I created a Mirror and a Concatenated-Strip volume. All went OK, I used the command line to do this, when I check the status with # metastatI can see that every thing is fine; all disks are online and have the Okay stat. ...

Hi all, from your experience what would it be a suitable storage solution to have at least 23TB RAID5 and200GB RAID1 ?Thanks,pat98usb

Hey guys, not looking for a huge post on what I need to do to install my newly acquired 3510, but some direction on where I can get docs on steps to install this thing using FC on a SunFire V880. Thanks for the help in advance.ci

I've downloaded SE3510 patch 113723-10.README.113723-10 advises using upgrade script s3kdlresAny ideas where I can find the script s3kdlres?It's not included with the patch!

Dear guys,After I inistalled the JNI 2 Gb PCI FC HBA in V880, and I have installed the StorEdge 6120, but, according to the installation guide, after I executed ok apply show-children ******I got nothing but PortID LUN port WWN Device TYPE LUN descriptionI cannot see any information about the ...

Hello, i'm not sure where to find this answer so i'm asking here we are currently at about 15TB of storage and are planning on adding another 10TB how much cache should be added to the system? I believe the system has 8GB is there a general rule or algorithm to use to determine this? ...

Hi,I have just mirrored my boot disk using SDS, however i have just one question. Should I mirror the slice that holds the metadb?I currently set them up to run on two disks, but have mirrored that slice as well. I'm not sure If I needed to run this mirror, since the command placed them on ...

I have a 3310 disk array with 12 72gb drives , configured raid 5 , 1 hot spare...The host side scsi parms are max queded i/o 256, luns /host 32, max # concurent host lun 128, cyl/head/sector cyl-65536,head-64, sector-255......problems.I have added a 3310 expansion unit to the original disk ...

Would like some information regarding DiskSuite? I currently have the root,var,opt,usr,swap file systems mirrored using DiskSuite. I would like to install a kernel patch prior to upgrading Oracle. WOuld like some help in the following; 1) Can I offline the disks using "Metaoffline" 2) With ...

I'm getting crap performance out of a 3511 array I just put in to service... backups took 50 hours and only got 9 GB...Suggestions to troubleshoot?

I had a failed disk on a v880 running Solaris 8 (108528-24). I mistakenly pulled the disk w/ out using the proper hot-plug procedure (luxadm remove_device). Now I can't seem to get the new drive online. I've tried - "reboot -- -r" and "luxadm insert_device".The new 36gb replacement drive is ...

Hi, guys,I have installed the SE6120, but I got some wierd name from the "format" on the host.I want to create a new file system on the host, by newfs, but, I got some error message.bash-2.05# newfs ...

Hi,I just installed two 490 servers (node1 & node2 ) under solaris 8,each node has two 72Go internal FC disks (Mirrored under Disksuite)the two nodes share five 72Go scsi disks (on a sun storedge 3310, JBOD, SCSI, single bus),via LSI2230-S dual ultra320 SCSI controllers (crtl1 on node1 ...

Has anybody configured SSCS or storADE to send SNMP traps from a sun sparc machine to 3rd party NMS? Any success? Any help?regards,Nikhil.