Has anyone had to figure out a huricane planning exercise for Sunfire V880's?

I have a E3500 with a x6730A fiber card attached to a Brocade Switch and that switch to a Hitachi SAN.I wanted to find out where I need to start?I can see that E3500 recognizes the HBA card, but unsure as to where to go from here.Do I need to get Veritas FS or can I create volumes through ...

Thanks everyone for help on our 3960 SAN problem earlier.We are asking management to upgrade to 6920.I have a question regarding LUNS.Our oracle database server has 8 partitions on the 3960. Each array has 2 tray, each tray has 2 LUNs. On the 6920, I read that the Volume (LUNs) now can strip ...

Hi We just purchased the sun x2100 server, for the purpose of hosting some applications on the linux platform. Unfortunaly the nvraid controller is not well supported on the centos (red hat enterprise clone), and therefore we cannot get raid1 with failover to work on this server.I have searched ...

Geetings!I was handed this system and told to get it to work. We do not have a support contract for either the Sun machine or any of the external hardware. I have a EasyRaid X6P that I am trying to attached to a NetraT1running Solaris 8. Format sees the disk like this:4. c7t0d0 <drive type ...

I got the previous CLI software from some 1.6.2_sw_solaris-sparc.zip file -- can't remember where at the moment. But that gave me packages like SUNWsccli. Should the same CLI package work against a 3320 as against a 3310 (EOL has forced us to move forward).-bc

I have a Sunfire V440 with Solaris 5.9 connected with scsi cable to a SUN-StorEdge3310. The OS detects the external storage (see below, two LUN's defined) with the probe-scsi command from the OK prompt and with the format command. Although the LUN's are labeled veritas doesn't recognize them ...

I am running a Solaris Ultrasparc Enterprise 450 Server with Solaris 8 operating system. This past weekend, I received the following errors relating to Volumen Management on our disks. I need help in understanding what happened and how to fix it. The only thing I found was that 2-3 filesystems ...

We currently have a StorEdge A1000 in use, it is attached to a Sun Fire V240. We also have a Netra T 1124 and are trying to attach the A1000 to this machine.We didn't have any luck so far. RAID Manager 6 finds the controller (c3t0d0). When we select the RAID module we see the LUNs, but when we ...

Any thoughts?! We just bought two StorEdge 3320, dual controller, 512MB cache each, to replace some 3rd party Ultra160 arrays. These things write 3x slower then the arrays we are trying to replace. Is this possible? So far from Sun Solutions, thier recommendation was to remove the secondary ...

Hi,I have 3510 array with Dual FC controllers and each controller has a network interface. I am trying to congiure both NICs with separate IPs but I only see one interface through console. How to set the 2nd interface up?And there are 8 FC host ports but I only see 4 , I need to attach 6 to 8 ...

Hi all:I'm trying to find how to recover a lost password from a 3510FC array or a way to reset it (the data don't matter) the array to factory defaults without issuing passwords...I know how to reset the nvram but all procedures states that I have to issue the password before procedure.All I ...

I have a t3 StroEdge plus ,i have created one volume and in that volume i have Three slices.out of three slices i have mapped two slices to my hosts.my volume is raid 0.I want to map my thrid slice also to host.what is the Procedure. Slice Slice NumStart BlkSize BlksCapacityVolumes00 0 ...

Hello all,I'm trying to connect a V880 running solaris8 to our new EVA8000 san using HBA qlogic cards, currently the v880 is connectted to our old HSG80 san trought two JNI cards these are the steps I've done so far:-1) Install HBA into server2) Ran probe-scsi from ok prompt to see if t can ...

Apologies if this is the wrong forum but i can't seem to find a conclusive answer on wether Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software 7.1 will work on Solaris 10.Do i have to upgrade to 7.2? Is that free upgrade? Will i need new licences?Thanks

We have a HDS Thunder 9500 which is not supported by mpxio since its not a fully symmetric array and MPXIO doesnt have the array specific support it would need.Now I understand that the storedge 9985 (also known as an HDS ncs55) can "virtuallize" other arrays.And I believe the HDS ...

Is there a difference between QLogic QLA2342 and the sun card SG-XPCI2FC-QF2

I have some old SYM22802 LVD SCSI cards I pulled out of some 220Rs - will one of these work in my V20z?

I was recently gifted a used 3510. When it powers on, I'm getting the beep code for SES/PLD firmware mismatch.However, when I get into the controller and do a show ses-devices, it doesn't list any, so that makes it a little impossible to upgrade the firmware. Anyone have any thoughts? ...

I have a 3310 which came with 5disks and connected to a V480(Solaris 9).I want to fill up the slot with 7disks.But each time I add these disks,the host hangs but if I remove them,the host goes back to normal.Has anybody come across this kind of situation.?Any ideas?.

Hi,Backround information:DA: 3510 RAID1Veritas clusteringOracle DatabaseI recently noticed a high iowait % ~ 50% on 6 of 8 of my cluster servers. Performing an iostat command revealed that the sum of all kr/s for all cluster servers at one time was approximately 50000. Likewise the value for ...

Hi, Guys,Our department just ordered a SUN Server V490 and a Storage 3511, we will use them for an Oracle based application. But I haven't ever installed them before, can you give me some quickstart guide?I have installed Solaris 9 on PC some times, and familliar with Solaris system ...

I can mnt a ufs disk with the mount command:mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 /usr/testThis shows up in the mnttab file as below, but upon reboot the disk is not mounted and the entry is deleted from the mnttab file. I'd appreciate any ideas.# more ...

In a new position I have inherited 3x T3 arrays (2 live one spare).Unfortunately due to a number of staff changes prior to my arrival the root passwords on two of these (1 live and the spare) have been lost.Is there any way to re set the passwords, even if this means data loss?Thanks. ...

Hi,I am trying to use an emulex lp8000 card in an E450 under solaris 10 Generic_118833-03 with the standard solaris fp/ssd drivers. prtdiag -v shows the emulex card. Yet I do not have an fp entry in /etc/path_to_inst nor does cfgadm -al show the card. This happens although I have rebooted with ...

I posted something to the storage forum yesterday morning right beforethe switch over to the new format and I think my post was lost. Iapologize if it later reappears and there are two posts of the samesubject. In any case, here's my question again...We ran into an odd problem getting our ...

i bought a d1000 on ebay to use on a pc running solaris.since that array uses an hvd scsi to connect to it, i have purchased and installed an adaptec aha-2944uw. however, the scsi utility in the bios cannot see any of the drives. has anyone out there connected one of these successfully, and if ...

Connected A1000 to Ultra 10. NO disks / LUNs found on OK> probe-scsi-all < should I see disks at the OK prompt probe?SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10patched with latest tar ball. Installed RaidManager 6.22.1When installing Rm6.22.1 at the install of SUNWosau I ...

I have a D1000 with 12 x SUN18GB drives. 'probe-scsi-all' at the OBP prompt shows all 12 of my disks. But in Solaris, /dev/dsk (also 'format') only shows 8 of the disks. The machines is a V880 running Solaris 8. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hello,we got a SPARCstorage Array Model 200.I want to connect my Intel server (via FFDI) to this controller.But what type of HBA am I to look for?wkr: Wilhelm Pieper

Hi everybody,I am using two T3 arrays connected E420 server in NAS configuration.I want to access these T3 arrays from other machine like blade 1000 (just in case of hard ware failure in E420 server). Can anybody help me what exactly I need (both hardware & software) to create a duplicate ...

Hi,I setuped a new client by nwadmin of Solstice Backup 5.5. nwadmin shows that:Enabler in use: NOAnd the notification email shows:SYSTEM error, `orion' is not a registered clientHow can I change "Enabler in use" to "Yes" or make the client registered? Thanks! ...

Hi My Company is looking at buying one of these.We already have 2 T3's but it is very expensive.Can somebody please mail me a list of the differences between themKing RegradsJohnnyMx HealthInformix DBA

I have the DDS3 autoloader sitting around, can I connect this to a windows box and use it as a backup system?Rob

Typical setup of a Oracle database server could be:Systemdisk mirrored.10 disks striped and mirrored as RAID 0+1 for the database-volume.I have used the command: "time mkfile 1000m testfile" to test the sequence write performance. I wonder why I get performance of c.a. 60 sek when I write to ...

Hi,This question is basically a revisit of a problem I posted a couple of months ago, and let fall by the wayside.We have a Sun Fire V880 (Solaris 8 0202) trying to connect to an HP XP512 using two Sun-branded FC-AL Fiber network cards (p/n X6799A). The cards are PCI Qlogic QLA2200F single-port ...

Hello,I齰e read that ufs logging eliminates ufs filesystems inconsistency, but is not enabled by default. Why? Because of extra resource usage? Which are the pros and the cons of using this filesystem feature?Thanks in advance,jmiturbe

Hi,sometimes, 2-6 per Week, in the Syslog of the T3 come the message:Feb 03 15:36:05 XXXXXXX]: W: u1ctr ISP2100[2] Received LOOP DOWN async eventEverything works well, but i donrt no where i have to search about this message ?

In order to hedge against an A1000 going sneakers up, what backup component or components would it be best to have on hand? In other words, which part of the A1000 is most likely to fail?

Hi,did anyone try to hookup a non-StoreEdge3310-device to this beast?I put it in a Fire280R and connected U160-Disks& SCSI-IDE-Raids (U160), but none shows up (yes, boot -r).& re-booting the Fire280R takes 40 minutes, spoiled my whole afternoorn :-(Werner MohrenSystem- and ...

Hi, We've got an A1000 7 disks RAID 5 plus 1 hot spare configuration with 1 controller using Volume Manager with 16 Kb stripe size and we've observed that the transference ratio does not overcome 14 MB. 鼵ould it be a reasonable limitation on the controller? It is hosting an Oracle dB and ...

HiWe have a 6960 with 3 T3 brick pairs but the only machines connected to it is "unix solaris" so effectively we can take out the virtual engines in the 6960 cause no NT or other connect to it so the ve's are extra overhead. 3960 is 6960 without ve'sWhat I want to know is what will the ...

hello all,i have a problem with a StorEdge A3500 controller that has five D1000attached to it. using the detailed controller information in rm 6.22.1 isaw that controller A thinks it is a A1000 (it shows Product ID:StorEDGE A1000) all other details a normal.by default A is active and B is ...

Can anyone tell me how I can get a T3 to generate syslog message without disrupting the array. I want to be able to check that I have the remote logging setup properly.

How do I disable snmp on the qlogic sanbox8> I have reviewed the documentation, but can not find the solution anywhere.

Hello,I can buy at a good price a Sun StorEdge DDS-3 12-24gb 4mm tape drive, and i was wondering if i can install it in a computer with the windows 2000 professional.Many thanks!Miguel Andrade

We have a D1000 disk array already configured with 8 x 9GB disks. We need to add more space and are about to order 2 x 18GB disks. Is there any problem with mixing disks of differentsizes within a D1000 array?All the bestPeter Wickett

Hi,We were considering purchasing some LTO drives, but were wondering how they would work with our existing drives. We have one of each L180 and L700 StorEdge devices. We also have 4 9840 tape drives, and 5 DLT8000 drives. The product sites list the total numbers of one type of drive that would ...

I'have purchased SotrEdge D1000 for 220r Enterprise server. I want to know the options through which I can add this to my system for optimized use. Do I need any third party software or need to purchase any software from Sun to use the system or any inbuilt tool would work for me?Any body have ...

I have migrated an A1000 to a new server. While doing so, I reconfigured it from a RAID5 volume to a RAID1. Upon doing a probe-scsi-all, I am now seeing 15 device entries for the A1000. Below is a sniplet from the output of the format command. On controller 2, I have targets 0 thru 15. In RAID ...