I have a system running Solaris 8 with A1000 hardware raid arrays connected. Will these still be usable if I upgrade to solaris 10. Currently Raid Manager allows us to manage the disks, will this be available with solaris 10 and if not is there an alternative.

Can someone please help me to identify a peice of hardware. On The front it says Digital Data Storage, there is the number 3 as well and underneath it says model # 611. I know its a type of storage device but i cant find any documentation. If someone could help i would be very gratefulMany ...

I have several A1000s that aren't doing anything that I'd like to re-use. I won't be using them with Solaris and won't have access to RM6.I can get to the boxes via the serial port. Is there reference material anywhere, supported or not, for configuration through the serial port?Is it ...

Hi,I have 2 F15 domains both of which connect to SAN using Emulex.Domain A has disk on EMC DMX arrayDomain B has disk on Clariion array.My SAN guy tells me that the # blocks for both Clariion and DMX LUN's are the same but on Domain B (Clariion) a 16.5gb LUN is >500mb smaller than the ...

Current config 5x73GB RAID5 + 1 Global Spare, this is the only volume in the array.We intend to add 2x73GB and expand the current RAID5 volume.I understand the 'how to' but I would like to know if anyone has accidentally destroyed the volume (or data on it) by expanding it, or if there are ...

Hello Experts!We're in the process of trying to connect a newly-configured Ultra 80 (Sol 10-Jan 2006) - machine 'B' - to our ancient (pre-cambrian, in fact) SPARC Storage Array. We've installed a JNI FCI-1063 card.The NVRAM monitor reports device:/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1f" ...

Encountered an interesting problem that I think is worth sharing. Had a client who requestedincreasing their RAID1+0 filesystem. The environment is as follows: adding 4x36GB disks, Solaris 9,Solaris Volume Manager (aka DiskSuite). Once we had the OS see the new drives, started the processto ...

Hello,I have an Enterprise 450 with 4 Sparc Processors.I would like to remove my SCSI disks and install Sata disk.For this, I need a SATA Controller wich is compatible with Sparc processors.Can anyone tell me where I can find such a card ?Thanks a lotRmy ...

Hi All,This is very urgent issue, where we are not able to see Disk array from the server, Please help. We are using Sun StorEdge 3510 FC disk array along with Sun netra V240 server. We have installed Solaris 9 OS on V240 server and installed the Recommended patch cluster available from the ...

Hi folkswhich T3 is able to do fabric logins? How can I verify which one I have?I have a T3 with 256 MB cache and it can only do arbitrated loop. This is the one with the long GBIC (MIA). Somebody told me a T3 with 1 GB cache is able to do fabrics. Now, I bought a T3 with 1 GB cache (not ...

I have about 10 T-3's can I use the T-3 extractor to extract the current config of each array from the loghost?Thanks

I am having trouble seeing my firewire storage on both blades.I am able to connect a Maxtor OneTouch 250gb firewire drive to a SunBlade 100 running Solaris 10. It is discovered and I can configure it with rmformat.The problem comes in when I want to attache it to a second sun blade at the same ...

Hello All,I have an Ultra 5 workstation with an external storage box attached.I dont have physical access to the system.I want to know the details of the SCSI controller from Solaris OS (scsi type, driver etc) that I am having in the system.I dont have physical access to the system.I cannot ...

Hi,I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I am asked to research different methods of configuring a system for running Oracle RAC. We have previously used two Sun v20z servers and a shared SE 3310 for this. But now we want to use two storage arrays, for complete redundancy. ...

I know it is possible to setup write cache when working with Hardware RAID. Is there anyway it can be done via the SVM for a software RAID5? I have a SunFire V480 connected to Fibre a5200 (yes - I know it's old, but very reliable) and have quite a large RAID5 on it that I would like to ...

Hello everyone. I was wondering if it is possible to take one Storedge 3510 FC, with all 12 disks in it full of data, connect it to another 3510 with 12 blank disks, and replicate all the data from the first 3510 to the second. Does anyone know how? If so I would really really appreciate it. In ...

Hi, my question is if you can connect say 10 devices to one Storedge 3510FC (a mixture of both Sun machines [say a Sun Fire V480] and Windows machines [say a Dell PowerEdge 2850] for arguement's sake} and have all 10 devices individually be able to see the 3510 from their OS ...

Hello,I just need what kind of SCSI cables are needed to connect a D1000 Sun Storedge to an Ultra 5 with a X6541A Dual SCSI Diff. Controller. I think need 2 SCSI cables, one of them to connect D1000 to X6541A on Ultra5, and another one to connect D1000 to itself. Furthermore I think need a SCSI ...

We have a 3510 array here that we are configuring via the serial port at the back of the system.The 3510 was a dual raid base and it worked fine. Now it is going to be used as a single raid with a JBOD card. The issue is when we fire it up and have a look through the serial connection instead ...

Not sure if this is the correct forum....but here goesAside from DiskSuite, how can I replace a mirrored disk in a cPCI box without bringing down the system? The disk is hot swappable however, I realize there needs to be no activity on the controller for that bus in order to pull the disk out. ...

Users are not seen during the creation of quotasi have tried several time but it is not happening.

OS/ Version: Solaris / 5.8Software: SAN 4.4.8 (SAN Foundation Kit)I installed the SAN 4.4.8 Foundation kit to implement STMS in order to have a dual path to both an A5200 as well as thru the SAN to a Hitachi 9500V storage subsystem. After the installation of software and patches, I rebooted the ...

HiI have a "testing" system that has two E4000 connected to one A5200, when I type vxdisk list, i some of the disk show are shared, and i can make shared disk groups, other show as online. but not shared. these I cannot make shared disk groups. Can someone help me? I was wondering if ...

<div align="left">I used to connect from V240 to 3510FC via serial cable.Everything was ok, but yesterday I've lost connection toLAN while I was using 3510 firmware. Now I can'ttip the array. It seems not responding to serial connection.I don't have any zombie tip sessions on hostand I ...

Question on messages on 3510FC disk array.When I type sccli>show configThe response is inter-controller-link channel connectedSccli: retrieving bypass settings: error: not an existing targetBattery-statusSccli: retieving battery status: error: not an existing targetWhat does this mean? ...

I have a storedge 3310 hooked to my V440 running solaris 8 and not all the logical disks are showing up in the format command. I have a total of 4 logical disks configured on the array, two on the primary controller and 2 on the secondary controller. It appears that I only have one logical ...

Hello all,I've inherited a deployed T3B running 3.1.5 firmware, and I'm trying to determine whether it's optimally configured for the application (a database-driven calendaring system).<div class="pre"><pre>sunt3b:/:<33>vol listvolumecapacity raid datastandbyv0 134.890 GB1 ...

Are there any SATA adaptors for the blade-1500 system?

Hi everyone. I looked in the forums first but didn't find the answer anywhere.If I'm about to put 4 x HP LTO3 tape drives inside an L500 frame, what speed of FC interface is found on those tape drives? (i.e. 1Gb, 2 Gb, 4 Gb.) (I've heard 2Gb, but only from one source so far ...)Thanks ...

Hi all,We have a 3960 with 2 arrays, 4 bricks with 73G drives.It is connected to a Sun 890 for Oracle database with 2GB HBAs.Currently, each brick is configured raid0+1 (mirror/stripe) with disk #9 as hotspare.Disk1,2,3,4 = LUN1 ~136GDisk 5,6,7,8 = LUN2 ~136GIs each LUN a separate I/O ...

Hi All,We have just check and we have a mixture of qlc-pci1077,2300 and qlc-pci1077,2200 HBAs and dual Sun FC 16 port switches.I found that they are either 1GB or 2GB Qlogic HBAs on Sun 480, 490, 880 and 890 systems on our floor.Our 3960 has been stable for the last 3 years, but last week it ...

Hi!I have a problem with connecting of storage array Hitachi 9530 to Sun v880 server. I dont see any disk in "cfgadm -al" output. Also I dont see this storage from OBP in "probe-scsi-all" output. Configuration:1. Solaris 5.9 Generic_118558-03 SUNW,Sun-Fire-8802. 2 x QLogic ...

I have 2 E4000 systems each with a T3+ attached.On one system (DEV1) I created one volslice and later split up the slice using format. Creating the filesystem (newfs) took quite a long time. About 2 hours for a 200Gb partition.On the other system (DEV2), I created 3 volslices. Creating the ...

Please could you tell me what DLT/SDLT/Ultrium series drive works with Sun Fire V880 with SCSI Sun X6540A?The question is URGENT because we need to do backup/restore of our Databases but we have not backup device...We want to buy it but we don't know what exactly drives we can choose for our ...

Will a Quantum DLT 7000 TH6AE - HH A10 work on Microsoft XP OS?

Greetings,We have a small shared SAM-QFS setup here: Four 280R's, nine sharedfilesystems and a few multi-reader/single-writer filesystems. We'verecently noticed that one of the client 280R's, when it reads a file on oneof the shared FS's, will update the mtime on the file it reads (somtime ...

Hi,I'd like to connect an SDLT 600 tape drive to a V240 server. I don't really reboot the system for it. Is it possible? What can I do for it, which config file can help? Or I have to reboot, and for it a I have to make a reconfigure file into the root directory.Thanks. ...

We have a D1000 in split array with 6 - 36 GB SCSI on a side. Would like to replace these with 6 - 146 GB Seagates (Sun derived) to increase the storage capacity. This is a RAID 5 array with slice 4 flagged 'wm' and cylinders at 0-24616. If I partition the new drive(s) in an identical ...

I have Sun StorEdge 3510 with 1 RAID Controller and 5x 72GB 10000rpm HDD.I'm trying to check the performance of this array.I connect only one HDD without any RAID Levels.Write Policy: Write-BackCache Optimization: Sequential I/OI'm copying 6GB file from servers internal SCSI HDD to my FC ...

I'm trying to use a StorEdge 3120 SCSI disk array with an IBM X-346 server running Windows 2003 Server EE. I am having a terrible time of it in that when I attach the array to the server...Windows refuses to boot. In the startup bios sequence though I do see the array being recognized although ...

Hi,Does anybody know what the max. disk size is that works in a A1000 array? We have so far used 76GB disks in an 8 slot A1000.Thanks

Is there such a document that will display the actual usable space ofter you have configured a 3510 and attached JBOD's.Example......3510 x 12 300GB drivesconfigured with a RAID 5 and 2 hot spares?Raw is approx 3.6 TBWould usable be 2.4TB. I do believe the actual number is a bit lower? ...

Is it possible to stripe vertically across disk trays? We have many 3510's with 6 - 8 fully populated disk tray's attached. If I could create many RAID 5 LUN's for example across multiple tray's allowing you to lose a tray and not effect the LUN?

Recently purchased a Sun 2500. Would like to upgrade hard drive, what are my options?Does this model only use the Ultra320 hard drives, or can I buy an IDE, and/or SATA drive?What about external devices? According to the description it will also connect to external hard drives, what types are ...

I have disk in a T3 that is now displaying as substituted in the STATE column but is in a ready STATUS. Is the disk bad?Thanks

We have 3 different 3510's with a few expansion tray's connected to a switch that makes our SAN. I have a question about host ID's.Do the hoost ID's have to be unique for all 3 of the 3510's? I assume yes? (these are dual controller units)What is the default host ID? ...

I get no reply from our 3510 with ssconsole or ssdgrptui.I can telnet and sccli to the unit, the server (V240 running Solaris 9) I'm trying from is on the same subnet and even has mounted the 3510 as a fibre channel storage.I don't know what I'm doing wrong, the documentation regarding ...

Hello,I am trying to buy tape drives for the following libraries:Storagetek L80 (LVD SDLT 600)Storagetek L180 (LVD SDLT 600)Storagetek L700 (HVD SDLT320)I know that the Storedge L180 and L700 are the same as Stragetek's but I don't know the Sun equivalent of the Storagetek L80.Please can ...

Dear ALL,I have a 3510 storedge with sun fire 490 server.i installed solaris 8 ,recommended os patches,san packages,san patches.i have created one ld in storedge ,but it is not visible in Solaris server.OK prompt it is detecting,but in solaris 8 it is not dectecting.My solaris is 2/04 .please ...