Customizing a driver configuration usually means that a perdevice parameter or global property that impacts all. Add descriptions of the logical units to the sd driver configuration file nf using a text editor, such as vi. Having a program or file that does not apply to your configuration does not affect performance. Thus, your driver customizations are not overwritten when the system is upgraded. You too can understand device numbers and mapping in. The driver offers access to the hilscher netx based hardware e. If luns have been preconfigured in the kerneldrvsd. By jason mccullough, july 11, 2003 storage area networks have moved from the cutting edge to almost commonplace. Huawei uses machine translation combined with human proofreading to translate this document to different languages in order to help you better understand the content of this document.
In both cases, the target number associated with the wwn of the array adapter is arbitrary. You might consider the bus level or device level setpoints as we discussed above rather than a system wide setting. About device drivers managing devices in oracle solaris. The file etc lvm is used by the metainit1m command to find the locations of the metadevice state dat. The etc lvm file is created when the metadb1m command is invoked. The format of an etcdriverdrv nf file is identical to that of a vendor nf file. Driver configuration files provide values for device properties. How to improve efficiency and coexistence of veritas dmp.
All entries for veritas volume manager device driver tunables are now contained in files named kerneldrvvx. Please enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of our new posts by email. For example, you must modify the host configuration file kerneldrvsd. Ensure you have the latest supported version of the qla2300 driver. For solaris 11 in case of solaris 11, files in the directory kernel drv and etc driver drv are the sample default configuration files delivered with os not used by mpxio. Attached at the end of this readme file is a sample sd. A target number that is already used by the sd driver of the system disk or cdrom cannot be deleted. An update on the additional requirement to have the vdc. In both cases, the target number associated with the. First, confirm that the logical unit settings on the eternus dxaf storage systems are correct.
Note that if you disable dynamic discovery of devices via the hbaxdisabledynamicdevicesupport parameter, you must populate the sd. Make the server recognize the eternus dxaf logical units using the sd driver. But, if this is your first time connecting remote storage to solaris, there are a number of configuration tasks that will be new to you if you have only worked with directly attached scsi arrays or suns legacy fibre channel arrays such as. In solaris 11, driver customizations are made in the etc driver drv directory rather than in the kernel directory as in previous releases. Cifx50 with the same functional api as the cifx device driver for windows.
Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning. Given the output from formats inquiry subcommand is st4000lm0161n21, you probably need to use ata st4000lm0161n21 instead of ata st4000lm016 in sd. If solaris 11 os is used and the etcdriverdrvnf file exists. Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle solaris. Fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual pdf download. The major vendors for storage hardware are emc, oracle formerly knows as sun microsystems, ibm, hp, dell etc.
The files in the etc driver drv directory are preserved during the upgrade. Os native multipathing software huawei san storage host. In addition to the etc system file, the file kerneldrvsd. To use the ds4 via bluetooth in this mode you must pair it first. This utility displays information about luns on the storage system that are available to this host. Solaris scsi disk driver sd or ssd the io retry values for sd and ssd are different. Managing devices in oracle solaris oracle solaris 11. Weve just bought some new x44 servers 60 core, 256gb ram, solaris 11. Per this emc document, the entries below caused the os to hang at booting endlessly and it never boots.
Run the cfgadm command on the host to check whether the hba drivers are. Minor numbers are too big for 32bit applications due to. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio. Below is a collection of methods to set the max io transfer size for various operating systems to a smaller recommended value, this value can vary depending on the storage system involved, e. Installing install emulex driverfirmware, san packages saninfo, hbainfo, lputil, emc powerpath. Copy the original vendor supplied nf file to the etcdriverdrv directory.
Huawei san storage host connectivity guide for solaris huawei. Native fcp driver with mpxio usage sparc solaris 10. This can have a performance impact on some of the hp storage products. How to customize a driver configuration in solaris 11. As a result, some of its contents apply to one configuration, but not another. Some products hbas, software, os may not becovered. The 4 configuration files used in case of solaris 11 are the same, performing the same task. The instructions state to set the physicalblocksize to 8192 but then later it says to use 512 when you create the volumes. This toolkit is common across all the host configurations. This command displays the version of the san toolkit that you are running. Missing or damaged configuration files vxvm no longer maintains entries for tunables in etc system as was the case for vxvm 3. Next, add the descriptions of the logical units in the sd drivers configuration file sd. Following the emc best practices for solaris on xtremio.
The location of the configuration files is etc driver drv. To allow solaris to detect up to 255 devices that are connected to the qlogic adapter, the file, kerneldrvsd. Customizing a driver configuration usually means that a perdevice parameter or global property that impacts all devices is added or modified. They are determined by the following sets of parameters. I have some questions on the setting that are to be changed. Some new operating system versions have the ability to do very large block sizes. If you look at a random selection of very small files under kerneldrv for actual physical hardware, youll see that they almost always only contain the line. San storage area networking for system administrators.
Veritas dmp nf and nf variables for systems using native drivers 37. Please useas a guide and tailor to your site and needs. Files in etc driverdrv are available for local customizations to supplement the vendor driver configuration. For example, to use a hardware raid array that has 4 scsi disks as luns 03 on scsi target 0, edit kerneldrvsd. Quick guide to install and how to check that emc san is attached and working. An update to the solaris 11 recommended path for sd. This manual describes the hilscher cifx driver for linux and its architecture. Descriptionthis article describes how to configure fibre channel drivers and other system settings in solaris for better performance with infinibox. The corresponding entries for these devices must be made in the standard device configuration files.
About device drivers managing devices in oracle solaris 11. However, these usually deal with specifying addresses for hardware raid. How to load and view hba and associated san software. Information is collected by vxprint, vxdg, vxinfo, vxdisk, and vxstat. Hba host bus adapters acts as initiator in scsi storage subsystem and main function is converting scsi commands into fiber channel format.
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