I recently installed CA eTrustAntivirus v7.1 for Solaris on a Solaris 8 test box. After the installion and reboot, when I run a ufsdump on the volume it's installed in I get the following error:DUMP: Warning - directory at inode `83' vanished!DUMP: Warning - directory at inode `8143' ...

Hi, guys,I have installed the SE 6120 on one server, which is working as a host, and I can see the disk array information on this host by using format command.But, how can I let another server use this storage? Do I need to install the SAN Foundation Software in this server? What need I ...

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Hi I recently started noticing the following issue in my messages file Mar 17 16:23:00 pine genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /scsi_vhci/ssd@g290000602200443c6257455730303138 (ssd12) onlineMar 17 16:23:00 pine scsi: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@bd,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0 (fcp1):Mar 17 ...

Hi I have a small issue it seems that none of my QFS directives are getting noticed im not sure if this is true or not but this is what I have tried and i am unable to verify that these mount options are actually taking effect.. This is QFS Version 4 revision 4.0.26FA in my ...

I'm looking for a method (Blueprint) to backup the O/S filesystems of the samfs Server and the T3 Service Processor. Is there a method of "dump"ing the O/S filesystems to the samfs volume and then freezing the backup image on a tape? The tape would need to be sent off-site and returned for ...

Hi people,I need a Solaris non-expensive software to create a disaster recovery solution for my 2 Sun Fire 280R located on different sites, aprox. at 600km. I think on an asynchronous remote mirroring to avoid networking bandwidth and for applications that run on them, can be possible to have 2 ...

hi,I intend to get a clarification on the DHCP working under Solaris8. Since i configured my Host with DHCP start, the dhcp client in my host queries and receives the IP and a valid Lease period from the DHCP Server running in the same LAN. This happens when the Host ip is 0.0.0.0 and netmask ...

Is there a good procedure on how to implement mpxio with existing Veritas Volume Manager volumes? I tried last night and on the reconfigure reboot the server could not find the VM disks. I had to back out mpxio and reboot again.Thanks,Gary Blunk

My admin person quit and he took with him the T3' root password. How can I set it up again?Does any one knows how?

I have a A1000 and Solaris 8 E450R. I have plugged the A1000 into SCSI port on the back, and all ports on the A1000 are terminated correctly.I have installed the flash prom update and the rm6221 software. The software runs, but it complainsthat no RAID modules are found. I'm not seeing any ...

With regards to Solaris 8,I plan to use DiskSuite to create a few 0+1 volumes for our new database server. Any reason for me to consider Veritas Volume Manager instead?We have an E5000 running Solaris 2.6 with Veritas Volume Manager 3.2, we are only using it for 0+1 volumes(vxfs). No ...

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Does anyone have a good script for checking the status of disk-suite (ie metastat, metadb -i, metastat -s XXX)?I run disk-suite or Sun Volume Manager on almost everything. I have found that occasionally, the disks end up in a "need maintenance" state.Veritas had a nice easy method to get email ...

HiI am working on a StorEdge 6320 system (with a 2x2, 6120 array ) and have created two storage pools. One for each tray. I've create two volume groups that each have associated with them 13 volumes. (a total of 26 volumes per tray/storage pool). I have also created 4 initiator groups and ...

A SE3960 that want to be connected to both solairs and RH linux.Thanks!

Hey all. I've read the Traffic Manager docs and done online searches, but can find very little detail about connecting a SunFire 280R running Solaris 9 to an EMC Symmetrix, using 2 Emulex HBAs, and using Traffic Manager to handle failover.I've installed the Traffic Manager (TM) packages and ...

I am currently running Solaris 9 operating environment, I would like to know if RAID Manager 6.22.1 supports Solaris 9.When I search in SUN website, one page mentioned that RM 6.22.1 supports Solaris ( http://www.sun.com/storage/disk-drives/raid.html) while the other page is different ...

I am currently running Solaris 9 operating environment, I would like to know if RAID Manager 6.22.1 supports Solaris 9.When I search in SUN website, one page mentioned that RM 6.22.1 supports Solaris 9( http://www.sun.com/storage/disk-drives/raid.html) while the other page is different ...

Hi,I'm evaluating Remote Mirror Software included in Sun StorEdge_ Availability Suite 3.1,I have found some questions I may ask anybody that knows this product.This software threats devices like raw devices or volomes SDS, VVM, SVM.It needs to store data information changes in a Bitmap file ...

Hi!Can i just change ip on my Backup Server? I run Legato networker that i get from sun (Sun StorEdge(TM) Enterprise Backup Server)RegardsPontus

Hai, I used the following command to install bootprogram on mirror disk, after creating all metadevices.#installboot /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0ok nvalias mirror /pci@6,4000/scsi@4/sd@3,0:aSUNW,Ultra-4 is the system architecturemirror is the alias name given ...

Hai,I am going to work on SunStorEdge FC3510. It is attached to SUN Fire6800 server. What I would like to know is........I have to make RAID5 and to create LUNs. I required to create 6 partitions. Whether it is better to create RAID5 arrays individually for each partition or Creating entire ...

I am interested in increasing the default twenty second loop down timeout of the qlc driver to 60 seconds or more. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello,how can I remove the old WWN entries in the /etc/cfg/fp/fabric_WWN_map ?when I do a cfgadm -al I see only the LTO drives that are attached, but I am getting error's in the messages file.When I cat the file it, say's not to edit this file by hand, so how do I remove the old entries from ...

Hello,Where may I download the "Sun StorEdge Availability Suite" evaluation software ?Thanks.

hello, i am running solaris8 on sun fire v880,has one sun storedge 3510 attached.i want to check metadisk status on 3510 using command metastat,but it return the root disk metadisk information. how can i get information about metadisk on sun storedge arrays? THANKS --environment: sun fire v880 ...

Hello, somebody know where I find the package of SUNWvtsst to download ?Thanks

Hello,A disk has failed on my stor edge array one thousand, on an enterprise 450. My volume manager is VERITAS with sun cluster 2.2 on the box. Also Raid manager 6 is loaded.Do I need to use RM 6 manager to replace the failed disk ?Is it okay to run RM 6 GUI while VERITAS is running ?This ...

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

Hello all,We have an E4500 server and want to attach 3 T3's to it. Is it best to install Veritas Volume Manager or will Raid Manager 6 work?Thank You.

Hi.I have to installed remote mirror software.All working fine, but...Every time when I reboot slave host, the HDD on which I place slices for remote mirror on slave host, lose your label and becomes unusable.I have no idea what happens, maybe some one of you know what is it?Thanks. ...

I support a group that found out Solaris 9 4/03 doesn't support multi-terabyte file systems (e.g. over 1 TB) so growfs won't go past 1TB. SVM does as metattach will gladly add storage to an existing metadevice.So now they have this 2TB RAID0 metadevice but they can't grow the file system on ...

Hi all,can you please answer me, I have the following problem: faulty replicas:Broken replicas: DISKSET1:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 DISKSET1:/dev/dsk/c1t9d0s7 when I'm trying to delete it:/usr/local/ssa_maint <420> (root) # metadb -d c1t9d0s7 it exits with error: metadb: pigs: c1t9d0s7: No such ...

HI folks,We have the L1000 tape library backup machine attached to E450 server. Unfortunately, we lost the software LibMON 2.0 and LibAgent 2.0 CD-ROM. Anyone have idea where I can download it or buy it or you have one, can give me a copy of it? Of cause, we have the lisence for this. Only ...

I am looking for information on StorEdge Component Manager.We received version 2.0 of this product (inside a jewel case labeled v2.2 !),along with our Solaris 2.8 (2/02) media kit.I am struggling to find more information about the product on any Sun site.Thanks. ...

Hi there, 1.- There is a way to get the sources of the apache 1.3.9 shipped with SPARC Solaris 8, packages: SUNWapchd, SUNWapchr, SUNWapchu?2.- Or, equivalently: Does anybody has compiled the apache module mod_auth_pgsql for the apache 1.3.9 shipped with Solaris 8? And, in affirmative case, can ...

Hi,I am using II from Sun Availability suite for making snapshot. Everything about it's feature is fine,But only one problem is performance of my system used this software.If I write file on my E3510 disk storage,I spend time about 14 minutes, But at the same size,I use only 5 minute on same ...

Does QFS & SAM-FS care what FC-attached disk storage system it is accessing?In particular, we are considering using QFS and SAM-FS but need to know if it will work with Network Appliance fiber SAN-attached storage?Please advise and thanks,MP

For a mail server i created one big volume with disksuite over 15 EMC volumes of 32GB each.But after a reboot metainit complains it can't find any metadb's, (system needs maintenance).It seems like metainit is invoked before the multipathing is enabled. So disksuite doesn't find any ...

Today, i am studying and implementing ILM software for my SAN. Because all of our product (server and storage) are Sun product, so i choose Sun QFS, SAM-FS, and SAMQFS software. And the problem is i can find the diffrent beetwen them. Can anybody tell about the diffrent and the function of each ...

I've done the veritas storage suite upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0. Everything looks fine, but a couple a mount points for DMP dmpfs52336640 52336640% /dev/vx/dmp dmpfs52336640 52336640% /dev/vx/rdmp Before I upgraded, we used the Sun Foundation kit scsi_vhci driver to do multipathing. Now, does it ...

Hi all, I posted this on the Solaris 9 fourm, but thought that this forum is much closer to home. I am confused. I have a SunFirev440 with an external 3310 disk array (12 x 36GB hard disks). I used ssconsole program to create as RAID 1 (10 hard disks) with 2 global spares (2 hard disks). I have ...

Looking through the documentation I cannot determine if SSTM supports managing multipathed boot images. One of the troubleshooting sections of th documentation imply that it works but there is no other mention of the OS image residing on the SAN.Does anyone know if it works?

Will be there update to Traffic Manager to support new kernels for RedHat AS 3?Current SSTM 4.6 supports only kernel version 2.4.21-4.EL from !!! 03-OCT-2003 !!!Now is 13-MAY-2005!!!Thnx for reply

Are QFS and SAM-FS supported on Solaris x86? If not, is there a roadmap as to when they will be supported?

Does anyone know hos to make the EMC Timefinder recognize the long Mpxio devices?I recently migrated from PowerPATH to Sun STMS (mpxio) and my BCV operations are failing because it cannot recognize the device names.# echo | formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0 ...

Dear All,I would like to know Solaris SVM support EMC Powerpath or not? After change the config by follow the EMC powerpath manual. The SVM can create metadevice by using emcpowerxa.#metainit d0 1 1 emcpower0aBut it still can't add disk to metaset #metaset -s test -a emcpower0a. Have any ...

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 ...

Hi,I have two 3510's (same config on both) connected to two different systems, on one system the disk device names are displayed when running the 'format" command are:2. c3t40d0 <SUN-StorEdge3510-327U cyl 21920 alt 2 hd 64 sec 255> ...