FC Multipathing
Dear Storage Gurus,
We are having problems enabling fibre channel multipathing. There are 18 drives and 'format' sees all of the paths (36), not GUIDs.
Our landscape:
OS: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-15 i86pc i386 i86pc
SunFire X4100 (dual Opteron)
HBAs: SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z (Sun PN 594-2385-01)
CSC: generic JBOD
Some of the obvious configurations:
1. mpxio is 'disabled for no' in /kernel/drv/fp.conf
2. scsi_vhci.conf is set for product/vendor info and have tried several iterations.
3. cfgadm both manual and automatic.
4. rebooted a zillion times.
FYI In this build (June, 2006 DVDs), mpathadm is not included (SUNWmpapi). We have installed Solaris several times and searched the DVD, and no mpapi. Solaris is patched. We have also tried OpenSolaris (Nevada41) to no avail.
We have tried automatic and manual configurations as described in "Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing Adminsitration Guide"; and product guides/release notes which describe FC/MP under Solaris (though we don't have the products) "Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Configuration Guide"; Sun StorageTek 6140 Arrray Release Notes".
Regards,
Rich Stanley
