For solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model. Installs the driver source files to the usrsrc lpfc directory. During the controller failback test, multipath cannot recover all paths. This prevents unwanted luns from being mapped if there are any zoning errors, thereby keeping the solaris disk environment tidy. The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9 for solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model lp900x to later models lpx, lpe1100x, lpe1200x. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide. Builds the driver for the currently running kernel. Leadville drivers for emulex hbas appeared with solaris 10, but are also available with solaris 8 and 9. The luns as defined in nf as 0, 1, 2 became solaris disk devices c2t0d0, c2t0d1, c2t0d2. Before installing this product, uninstall the gr multipath driver.
You can customize these scripts and run them to automate the migration process. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches. Hi guys, i added lun on solaris 9 host but is not visible from powerpath. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver to. On a working node, it is found that emlxs driver loaded correctly. Emulex drivers for linux release notes broadcom inc.
Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver. When a new outofbox lpfc driver is installed, it is placed in either the updates folder or the extras folder. Here you can see the hba port wwn wwpn and the node wwn wwnn of the two ports on the installed qlogic hab card. This is the hbatimer timeout handler registered to the lpfc driver. World wide name wwn are unique 8 byte 64bit identifiers in scsi or fibre channel similar to that of mac addresses on a network interface card nic. As for the modinfo command i tried, modinfo lpfc and the output is below, so this means is driver is loaded, question is, is it. Emulex drivers for linux for lightpulse adapters release notes 5 drvlinlpern1144100 note. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfc elxfc fc hba driver to oracle emulex emlxs fc hba driver doc id 55027. This project is a development area for a linux device driver for emulex fibre channel hbas, targetting the linux 2.
From the modinfo, it is found that there are no lpfc or emlxs that are loaded. For emulex fibre channel cards, switch the driver so that the emulex driver lpfc driver is. A potential multipath path loss occurs on the sles 11 sp3 operating system. Recent driver kits can be found on the website as well as websites for various oems. Driver installation is not necessary because the osbundled driver is used. The linux kernel then checks both of these folders. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlogmessages. Changing host group modes for ports where servers are already installed and configured is disruptive and requires the server to be rebooted.
Emulex lp0dcm2f download drivers, utilities, manual. Beginning with solaris 10 update 1, the emulex leadville fca driver is bundled with the operating system. When the lpfc driver is installed on solaris 10 update 1 or later, the lpfc driver will not claim most of the hbas, since they are already claimed by the emlxs driver. Copy driver firmware updates from shared area to local disk. Fc driver alias pres boot oracle emlxs elxfc lpfc models elxfc f100. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlog. Hello all, i am trying to learn about solaris and sun systems so i purchased a sunfire 280r running solaris 9 with a disk array from ebay. Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of emulex corporation. This manual on the site may be outdated but it gives you an idea on how to do. Identifying hba cards and wwn numbers in solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11. The native emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9. Replacing a nonoracle emulex fc hba card with a oracle emulex fc hba card would require migrating all nonoracle emulex fc hba cards to oracle emulex fc hba driver. Oracle solaris operating system solaris 10 1 u11 sparc and 3 minimum patch revisions, 14888802, 14208803, and 15011502 oracle solaris cluster software4,5 maximum number of nodes6 multipath driver oracle solaris oracle san driver bundled in os for oracle solaris 10 host adapters3 sgxpci1fcqf2, sgxpci1fcql2, sgxpci2fcqf2, sg.
Fibre channel for oracle solaris driver settings for nonfujitsu fibre channel cards. World wide port name wwpn, a wwn assigned to a port on a fabric which is what you would be looking for most of the time. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris. This patchset mainly adds be3 hardware support to the lpfc driver. You will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. Solaris 9 os or solaris 8 os download and install the appropriate driver from the oracle website. The system had no video card so i purchased a pgx32 card for the pci slot and installed it.
How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the geek. I have installed a qlogic hba card in an e450 solaris 9 with all the sunw packages and the latest. Or you can also reinstall hba driver with lpfc driver, we hv tested it on solaris 9 and its work. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host ibm. Hp 3par solaris implementation guide abstract this implementation guide provides information for establishing communications between an hp 3par storeserv storage system and a solaris 8, 9, 10, or 11 host running on the sparc, x64, and x86 platforms. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre. Download and install the lpfc driver from the emulex website. Emulex does not support coexistence of both native nonoracle emulex fc hba driver lpfc and oracle emulex fc hba driver emlxs on same solaris server. Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris drivers for emulex it tells how to switch control over from emlxs to lpfc.
Lpfc driver upgrade today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage devices. This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment. For solaris, host group mode 7 should always be set because this is a prerequisite when using the oracle san driver. Emulex fc hba version not applicable to not applicable release na oracle solaris on sparc 32bit oracle solaris on x86 32bit oracle solaris on sparc 64bit. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning. How to find the wwn world wide name in sun solaris sun. These unsupported sample script files can help you migrate from the solaris lpfc driver to the solaris sfs driver. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host. Remove the part with the light on and power up the server. Hi thanks for your reply, so i tried the command lsmod, but it does not say anything about lpfc driver or emulex, does it mean lpfc is not in used. I am at the step to do the persistent bindings but cant find the lputil. So if native non oracle emulex driver is in use then the luxadm command will not work.
At the very least, you must run a supported version. Feb 11, 2014 the lpfc driver has been upstream for many years and can be readily found in the distributions. For lun queue depth, the number of luns in use on a host multiplied by the perlun throttle lunqueuedepth must be less than or equal to the tgtqueuedepth value on the host for queue depth in a sun stack. The driver for solaris10 os and solaris 9 os cannot be installed when the gr multipath driver is installed. Fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual pdf download. When this timer fires, a hba timeout event shall be posted to the lpfc driver workportevents bitmap and the worker thread is notified. Jul 15, 2009 today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. Our storage nodes are connected to an adic i500, lto4 drives. From some of the documents ive read, you may have to use the lpfc driver for solaris rather than the emlxs driver. Using fcinfo solaris 10 only this is probably the easiest way to find the wwn numbers on your hba card.
To change the driver hba bindings, run the emlxdrv utility. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers. Solaris instructions for migration of emulex host bus adapters to leadville stack prerequisites. Lpe11002m4 the procedure for all model will remain same. The driver to install varies with the type of solaris tm operating system. If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris you will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. Solaris 10 update 8 emulex fibre adapter oracle community. The drivers for the single and dual port hbas are delivered as packages and patches on solaris 8 and 9 os. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single port hbas. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single. I tried following commands even i rebooted the box but it didnt help powercf q devfsadm c powermt config i was reading somewhere we need to edit nf file to access new luns. For solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model lp900x to later models lpx, lpe1100x, lpe1200x for solaris 10, the only driver supported is sun sfs emlxs driver. To find the wwn numbers of your hba card in sun solaris, you can use one the following procedures.
This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment take a backup of important files. Fault management overview oracle solaris administration. In solaris 8 and 9 environments, lpfc drivers were frequently used and are still available. The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os.
View and download fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual online. Configuring amcc, emulex, and qlogic host device drivers. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage. Do not use linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update. The corresponding patches have been pushed upstream as part of the 8. The fcinfo command may not work in solaris 8 and 9. Installs the driver to the proper directory for the currently running kernel. If an lpfc driver is found, that driver is load ed into memory. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris solaris. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre channel for oracle solaris driver settings for emulex fibre channel cards p3am270204enz0. Emulex drivers for linux release notes 3 pub005463 note. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a solaris host. Driver oracle solaris version installation information.
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