Connect sun solaris VA880 server to HP MSL 6000 tape library
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 Switch. The port in the SAN switch is giving umber light. So I would like somebody to tell me how I should configure the fiber card so that the SUN box can detect the tape drive in my library. Because I need the device to be install so that I can see the device like this"/dev/rmt/On" because I need this path to link the device to my backup software.
NB:no zoning is configure in my SAN switch.
So I need a step by step in how to check if the fiber card is well installed and how to configure the device file.
Maury
[844 byte] By [
talby] at [2007-11-26 6:55:41]
# 1
When you do a cfgadm -al, can you see the controller for the card? It should spit out something like TAPE.
Are there any lights on the HBA? Are they green or amber? If you have an amber light, is it flashing or steady. I have seen steady amber lights which normally mean something is seriously wrong with the HBA.
An amber light on the switch might mean that you have the cable around the wrong way.
Another thing is that you may have the wrong port type defined.
Also, you might not have a card that is suitable for communication with the device.
Have you got any other SAN attached devices? Did you put the SAN foundation kit on the server?
One last thing is the HBA a Sun sold HBA or a Qlogic supplied HBA? If it is a Qlogic card, then you may need special software to get your server to recognise it.
Many things to think about
Stephen
# 2
Hi stephen,
When i typed the command cfgadm -al this is the result:
root@UNITEST # cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantCondition
c0scsi-busconnectedconfiguredunknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0CD-ROMconnectedconfiguredunknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot0 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot1 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot2 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot3 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot4 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot5 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot6 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch3:hpc0_slot7 unknownemptyunconfigured unknown
pcisch3:hpc0_slot8 mult/hpconnectedconfiguredok
After when i typed luxadm -v fcode_download -p to see if the driver is installed, i received this result:
root@UNITEST # luxadm -v fcode_download -p
Searching for FC/S cards:
Found Path to 0 FC/S Cards
Complete
Searching for FC100/S cards:
Found Path to 0 FC100/S Cards
Complete
Searching for FC100/P, FC100/2P cards:
Found Path to 1 FC100/P, ISP2200 Devices
Opening Device: /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl
Detected FCode Version:ISP2200 FC-AL Host Adapter Driver: 1.14 01/11/20
Complete
Later on I've tested this command to see the scsi port available i received this result:
root@UNITEST # dmesg | egrep "target" | sort | uniq
May 27 11:52:17 UNITEST ndi_devi_online failed for ses: target=dc lun=0
May 27 11:52:19 UNITEST scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd6 at glm0: target 6 lun 0
May 27 11:53:24 UNITEST sst: [ID 902828 kern.notice] sst0:No response from
target 5, lun 0
So frankly talking i'm lost, i don't know how to analyse those messages for me to configure this HBA card so that i can get the device file in /dev/rmt/*
I'm very new in Sun Solaris and it's my first time to configure a HBA device to make the tape drives usable to solaris (/dev/rmt/0n)
Please i need help
regards
Kouyate Maury
talby at 2007-7-6 15:28:44 >
