Overview of installation process?

662 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:13
I have 4 StorEdge 3511 boxes, a SunFire V440, and a QFS license.I've located (been given, actually) some pretty good QFS doc, but I still need:1) A nice overview of how to configure the 4 3511's to work together and provide LUN's or slices or whatever to QFS2) Information about the V440's ...

probe-scsi-all sees something, but OS does not

1037 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:14
How about a more specific question this time?I'm seeing something that may be relevant in probe-scsi-all:/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1*************************** Local Loop Devices ***************************Adapter loopId - 0 Device AL-PA a7 loopId 28 Hard-addr28Port WWN 216000c0ff89203aLun0DISK ...

3511's and serial communication?

1195 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:15
We have a "console server" (the moral equivalent of a box with a bunch of serial ports running kermit into a series of headless machines) running Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, and we want it to communicate with a 3511 that has two serial ports.Is it true that we'll need to hook up both of the ...

Re-enabling the "terminal emulation" on a StorEdge 3511?

481 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:17
I was poking around for serial parameters to tweak to improve the serial communications between our Linux+Cyclades serial terminal concentrator to a StorEdge 3511 RAID controller, and mistakenly tried "Turn off terminal emulation".I seem to be doing fine setting up the RAID array using sccli ...

Big LUN's?

753 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:18
I have 3 RAID 5's initializing now - they've been at it about 8 hours.I'm expecting ach of these RAID 5's to add amount to 3.2 terabytes.I heard that both Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 (to be fixed in Solaris 10 update 2) have problems with LUN's over 2 terabytes.Does that mean that I'm either ...

Quick initialization

174 byte By strombrg at 2007-11-25 23:17:19
I'm hearing that there is a "quick initialization" mode for building RAID 5's more rapidly.Is there a way of turning this on using sccli?Thanks!

scripting mpxio path status

395 byte By cdlair at 2007-11-25 23:17:21
I want to write a script to check the paths of my disks presented from a SE9980. What's the easiest way to check that both paths are online when using mpxio. In VXdmp it was fairly easy. The only way I've found so far is to use vxdisk list, get the dev path and luxadm that path, but there's ...

a question: what's the problem about this nfs client?

1477 byte By lqcao at 2007-11-25 23:17:23
We have fast nfs servers, fast storage and gigabyte network, but we can only get lowthroughput on client. I run the nfstat command on client, and get the output as these:Client rpc:Connection ...

configuring root DNS server

195 byte By phanee at 2007-11-25 23:17:24
my task is to configure a Root DNS server with 2 slave DNS servers which have clients. how to configure the ROOT dns server and its slave servers. please post this soon . its urgent

Storeedge A1000 for Oracle RAC without Sun Cluster?

301 byte By EverGreen at 2007-11-26 6:08:16
I am planning to use my 2 Sun 450 servers with Storeedge A1000 to configure Oracle 10g RAC, can i do that, or should i use Storeedge D1000? any link for a step by step guide to configure this shared storage for that on both servers? Recommendation?Thank you all in ...

Documentation for 599-2160-01 Multipack cabinet

437 byte By armistej at 2007-11-26 6:09:50
HiI've inherited a UltraSCSI Multipack with the part number on the back shown as 599-2160-01I've looked everywhere on the Internet, but can't find any reference to this Multipack cabinet under this part number - similar part numbers with 599-2xxx-xx are there, but not this exact part ...

se3510

182 byte By 0s1t0 at 2007-11-26 6:10:05
Hello allI understand that se3510 supports solaris, linux and windows hosts. My question is if it simultaneously? or which are recommended best practices?rmaldon

SparcStorage Array (SSA), how to add it ?

304 byte By lycan at 2007-11-26 6:10:10
Hi Gurus,I have a SparcStorage Array on a E4500 server with SunOS 5.6Any ideas on what I need to do in order to be recognized by the server?I cann't see it while running probe-scsi-all, no reboot -- -r, no disks, drvconfig, etc.The arrays are powered ...

Alternate Pathing options

559 byte By reclspeak at 2007-11-26 6:10:12
I have a Solaris 8 V480 with Sun-branded QLC HBA's to McData Sphereon switches to a FastT 700 array.However Solaris SDS is being used rather than Veritas with DMP.I'd like to implement an Alternate Pathing solution for redundancy/performance but I'm concerned that with SDS, there isn't a ...

DiskSuite Error While Trying To Stripe/Mirror root (/) to more than 1 disk

562 byte By netadmin27 at 2007-11-26 6:10:30
I have 8 - 36GB hard drives and 2 controllers. I have created 2 stripe submirror's.d0 and d1.d0 is c0t0d0s0 and d1 is c3t0d0s0.i placed them both in a mirror template of d2.so now I have RAID 1+0.the problem i am having is when I try to place the other 3 disks of each of controller to their ...

se3510 cabling and config

446 byte By caprica at 2007-11-26 6:16:32
Hello all,I'm just aquired a v490 with two HBAs and a se3510 12x72 with single RAID controller.two questions...1. Anyone know where I can get my hands on some decent docs that describe the best way to configure so I can help myself.2. Any recommendations in the best way to set this up - I ...

Failover of fiber channel time

584 byte By mytmozilla at 2007-11-26 6:17:42
We have a v890 with 2 single channel hba's, Solaris 8, Veritas 4.1 (DMP), connected to a Clariion CX700 (Active/passive). We are still in test mode for this configuration. When we disconnect one of the fiber's at the HBA to simulate a failure, it takes almost 2 minutes before failover occurs ...

how to bring a disk back online on a T3B system

335 byte By awenne at 2007-11-26 6:18:44
Storedge T3 firmware 3.2.3Hello,I have a disk that appears as offline (fru stat), I have reseat, rebooted the T3B but it stays offline (the disk's LED is green). I've checked the documentation, googled for it, but I can't find a way to bring the disk back online. Any ...

Documentation for Sun StorEdge (now StorageTek?) C4 tape library

827 byte By rshondell at 2007-11-26 6:22:12
I've been trying to get my hands on the documentation for the C4. Sun's doc site does not have this product listed at all. The product documentation link ( http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/1878#hic) just returns " The requested item could not be found." I've even tried opening up a case with ...

Booting from a SAN

610 byte By DuNk at 2007-11-26 6:24:14
Hi There,I am booting my V240 server running Solaris 10 from an EVA5000. The system boots fine and there are no issues there. I have created a device alias for each of the 4 ports on the controllers on the eva. These all work fine and the system is able to boot from each port. I have set the ...

911: lost password for Brocade SilkWorm 3800 swith

525 byte By emasun at 2007-11-26 6:27:55
We've FC switch Brocade SW3800, Firmware v3.1.1b.We have a switch with a missing password for admin,user, root and factory.I found the password reset util (www.brocade.com, PasswordRecovery3.0.zip) , made up a serial cable and followed the instructions for resetting the passwords. All looks to ...

traffic manager and 3320

145 byte By mcesarano at 2007-11-26 6:29:31
Is it possible to configure multipath from a sparc server (ex. 490) with u320 scsi boards to a storedge 3320 ?Regards,Mauro.

security erasure of sun hard disk drives

776 byte By madmidgy1 at 2007-11-26 6:33:26
hi there, first of all i am an absolute beginner when it comes to sun systems so i do apologise if this is the wrong type of forum for me, my problem is i have several sun ULTRASPARC 60 CREATOR 3D tower systems and i need to erased the hard drives securely before getting rid of them normally i ...

Sparc Storage not visible

514 byte By jia786 at 2007-11-26 6:34:53
Hi,I bought an E4000 and Storage array 100. But the system doesn'trecognise the array. When I try to install Solaris 10, it says nostorage devices found.I tried probe-fcal-all but it didn't give any output and didn't work.The LCD on array shows lines as follow Does the missing lines are ...

adding disks to an existing RAID5 array

659 byte By gansell at 2007-11-26 6:35:42
Hi,I have recently had to upgrade one of our v440 / storedge3310 / solaris 9 systems, as out usual solaris guru is on holiday.I have added the extra disks to the RAID5 array on the storedge 3310 OK, and i now see 2 patitions within 1 logical disk, as expected. However, the solaris box still ...

SCSI errors in a Sun/Storagetek environment

1154 byte By aceccopi-sun at 2007-11-26 6:35:47
Hallo everyone,i experienced SCSI error messages in the /var/adm/messages file.The system is composed by a Sun server V240 connected to a StorageTek L700 library through two SCSI cables.Apparently in a random way i receive some SCSI errors that make it impossible to complete I/O operation on a ...

HBA card

1798 byte By ajain12_tata at 2007-11-26 6:38:26
I want to connect Sun fire 4800 server with EMC clarion cx400 SAN. For this I want to configure HBA card. The output of prtdiag is========================= IO Cards =========================Bus MaxIOPort BusFreq Bus Dev,FRU NameType ID Side Slot MHz Freq Func State NameModel- - - - - - - - -- ...

How to Create Volume using Replicated Data (without Disk ID conflict)

1278 byte By kthillai at 2007-11-26 6:40:15
Hi,I am trying to create a new volume using replicated data. Here is the setup that I am using.Original setup:File System - UFS - /mnt/mntpointVolume - d0Diskset - dsksetDevice - /dev/rdsk/c2t41d0I have replicated the device c2t41d0 using our hardware replication. Now I have created a new lun ...

SUN tapestreamer dds3

260 byte By kees_jansen at 2007-11-26 6:52:42
Hello,I've got an external SUN tapestreamer digital data storage (SCSI). I'm looking for Windows XP back-up software and drivers so I can install it and use it.Thanks in advance for your suggestions.Brg.Kees Jansen, Holland

SCSI error on new LUN/Zoning layout

897 byte By dave1 at 2007-11-26 6:52:49
I am connecting an array to a SUN V440 and I am seeing these error :1. fcp: [ID 445167 kern.warning] WARNING: ssfcp_create_pip: fp1: no driver for device @w50001fe15008021d,0:fcp: [ID 445167 kern.warning] WARNING: ssfcp_create_pip: fp0: no driver for device @w50001fe15007e358,0:2. scsi: [ID ...

StoreEdge Raid Manager 6.22.x

455 byte By TexasMike at 2007-11-26 6:53:52
I am new to Sun OS, am setting up a Web Server on an UltraSparc 420r, and have 2 A1000 ans 1 D1000 drive arrays I wish to use. I believe the S/W I need for controlloing/managing the drive arrays is StoreEdge Raid Manager 6.22.1. I am having a difficult time actually finding the file/software ...

IBM DS4300 over Sun A5200

445 byte By Andrew_Holmes at 2007-11-26 6:55:28
Hi there, I have a Veritas cluster running Oracle 9i, hardware is currently 2xV880's and 2xA5200 storage devices. I am about to be tasked with migrating the storage to an IBM DS4300 device.Any tips or guidance about setup at all, and would you think id get a big speed boost. Currently volume ...

Connect sun solaris VA880 server to HP MSL 6000 tape library

844 byte By talby at 2007-11-26 6:55:41
Hi,I was first doing the backup of my sun VA880 through a UTP cable and it was working perfect but with the increasement of my database the management wants me to do the backup through a fiber cable. So i have installed a fiver card (Qlogic ISP 2200) and connect a fiber cable to link to my SAN ...

DIGITAL DATA STORAGE TAPE LIBRARY MODEL #811

55 byte By fposey at 2007-11-26 6:55:53
What is the capacity of the tape drive or tapes?

StoreEdge D1000 & ADAPTEC AAC-9000MD AAC-364/DELL PERC/2 QUAD RAID

48 byte By fposey at 2007-11-26 6:55:59
Has anyone used the card with this Array?

V120 SPARC MIRROR DRIVES SETUP

348 byte By smsgroup at 2007-11-26 6:57:39
I have a V120 SPARC running Solaris 9 and I am getting ready to install a second 73GB hard drive in my system to use for backing up my primary drive. I do not need realtime syncing, twice a day would be fine, but would like to be able to boot off the second drive if necessary. Can anyone give ...

3510FC performance monitoring at individual spindle level

719 byte By bmcgowan32 at 2007-11-26 6:58:25
Hi!I've got a particular LD on my 3510 which is running very hot. The host shows 100% utilizaiton of the disk in iostat and the server's IOWAIT is in the 70-90% range.My config is one 3510 single controller, direct attached to 2 hosts. 1 v480 and 1 intel box with Redhat Linux. Each host is ...

Disks for SE3510 FC

456 byte By Elain78 at 2007-11-26 6:59:16
Hi All,I don't know whether i can use disk (p/n: X6713A) for SE3510FC to replace the existing disk with same size 73.4GB failed or Not ?. However, i know that the above mentioned disk has the different part# than disks supported by Sun list but it has the same disk model supported by Sun ...

Raid Manager for Solaris 9

249 byte By stacybgi at 2007-11-26 7:04:52
I have an A1000 and have been all over the Sun and sunsolve sites looking for raid manager 6.2 or higher, but the download link redirects me to a new storage hardware page. Does anyone have any idea where I can get this software for Solaris 9

how to replace failed disk on 3510 RAID FC?

383 byte By timely at 2007-11-26 7:05:06
hi All,it's my first time i enter here and i hope i will be welcomed :):)i have prb on disk with amber led on 3510 RAID FC sun storage.How can i replace the disk and how can i know if it's in a raid configuration?is there any utilities from Solaris itself or should i be on the serial of the ...

Changing the managment IP on T3 and T4 arrays

435 byte By wilschultz at 2007-11-26 7:07:31
Hello all, hope this is the right forum!I've changed the managment IP's on two arrays, a t3 and t4, using the commands "set ip A.B.C.D" and see that the new configuration reflects the change by issueing the command "set ip". Neither of the array's are accessable via the new IP, however they ...

can the CIMOM can listen on the the HTTPS port 5989?

432 byte By vidya@sun at 2007-11-26 7:08:37
In the man page of init.wbem it is mentioned that it starts or stops the CIM boot manager.And at startup, the CIM Object Manger Listens for RMI connections on RMI port 5987 and for XML/HTTP connections on HTTP port 5988.But 5988 is not the secured port and I want the CIMOM to listen on the ...

HBA SG-XPCI1FC-QF2 driver for solaris 10

127 byte By RajeshPS at 2007-11-26 7:10:54
Hi all can anyone tell me . where can i download HBA SG-XPCI1FC-QF2 driver for solaris 10RegardsRPS

Sparc Storage Array 200: HOWTO?

955 byte By metzgerh at 2007-11-26 7:12:09
Hi, I have a sun enterprise 5000 machine up and running with Solaris 10. I also have a Sparc Storage Array 200 which connects via a fibre channel to the machine. I have tried to search for documentation online, but can磘 seem to find any on Sun磗 website. What I was able to find out is that that ...

connect to StorEdge A1000

342 byte By astroveny.sun at 2007-11-26 7:15:33
hi,i am new in thisi want to connect Enterprise 220R with storEdge A1000, i have a SCSI cable but i do not know how to get into the StorEdge, i have Oracle10 on the 220R and i want to cluster with the StorEdgedo i have to install software on the StorEdge? or on the 220R?so any clue? any ...

5404191 batch failure?

822 byte By Foxy at 2007-11-26 7:16:13
I have a bunch of A5200s running in a database environment.Over the past week, I've replaced 10 Seagate ST318203FC 18G fiber channel disks that have had 'failed' indications on the front panels of multiple arrays (Either failed, or ports not connected). Now I'm showing two more failed. All ...

info install rsync

140 byte By cfrance76 at 2007-11-26 7:17:01
I want install rsync on solaris 9 for mirror a file systems. After download pkg do you now which install rsync with the dependancies?

Fibre Channel Howto Guide?

689 byte By monk_zak at 2007-11-26 7:17:23
Hi, I am new to Fibre Channel and I am having problems. I cannot get my v210's to see the fc 3510 array. The disks on the array show up on the switch fabric as Sun and wwpn numbers. The v210 is connected to the FC Switch (cisco 5428) but when I do a luxadm probe no array is seen. Similarly ...

C4 & NetBackup

551 byte By stuckagain at 2007-11-26 7:17:50
Hi there,I have been trying to configure a Sun StorEdge C4 with Veritas Netbackup 6.0. I have done what the sparse documentation says and also used the Quantum PX502 docs (C4 is just re-badged). The tape drive part is visible in NetBackup but the Robot is reported as not configured properly. ...

3511 & global spare drive

212 byte By varga_stean at 2007-11-26 7:24:50
Hi,I have a fully loaded 3511(12x250GB). How many global spare drive should I add toconfigure 2 x RAID5 logical drives? Are there any recommendation from you guys ?Thanks,Stefan