Our storage nodes are connected to an adic i500, lto4 drives. 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. If an lpfc driver is found, that driver is load ed into memory. The system had no video card so i purchased a pgx32 card for the pci slot and installed it. 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. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre. Copy driver firmware updates from shared area to local disk. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage devices. During the controller failback test, multipath cannot recover all paths. A potential multipath path loss occurs on the sles 11 sp3 operating system. Do not use linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update. Emulex drivers for linux release notes 3 pub005463 note. 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.
Solaris instructions for migration of emulex host bus adapters to leadville stack prerequisites. To change the driver hba bindings, run the emlxdrv utility. Emulex drivers for linux for lightpulse adapters release notes. 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. For emulex fibre channel cards, switch the driver so that the emulex driver lpfc driver is. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlog. For solaris, host group mode 7 should always be set because this is a prerequisite when using the oracle san driver. When this timer fires, a hba timeout event shall be posted to the lpfc driver workportevents bitmap and the worker thread is notified. On a working node, it is found that emlxs driver loaded correctly. Here you can see the hba port wwn wwpn and the node wwn wwnn of the two ports on the installed qlogic hab card. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris you will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris solaris. 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. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver.
The driver to install varies with the type of solaris tm operating system. At the very least, you must run a supported version. The corresponding patches have been pushed upstream as part of the 8. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris. The linux kernel then checks both of these folders. Beginning with solaris 10 update 1, the emulex leadville fca driver is bundled with the operating system. Builds the driver for the currently running kernel. The native emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9. Fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual pdf download. Leadville drivers for emulex hbas appeared with solaris 10, but are also available with solaris 8 and 9.
Driver oracle solaris version installation information. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the geek. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the. 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. You will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. 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. This is the hbatimer timeout handler registered to the lpfc driver. If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10. To find the wwn numbers of your hba card in sun solaris, you can use one the following procedures. Hi guys, i added lun on solaris 9 host but is not visible from powerpath. The driver for solaris10 os and solaris 9 os cannot be installed when the gr multipath driver is installed. The drivers for the single and dual port hbas are delivered as packages and patches on solaris 8 and 9 os. Or you can also reinstall hba driver with lpfc driver, we hv tested it on solaris 9 and its work.
These unsupported sample script files can help you migrate from the solaris lpfc driver to the solaris sfs driver. Fibre channel for oracle solaris driver settings for nonfujitsu fibre channel cards. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage. 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. I have installed a qlogic hba card in an e450 solaris 9 with all the sunw packages and the latest. When a new outofbox lpfc driver is installed, it is placed in either the updates folder or the extras folder. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver to. I am at the step to do the persistent bindings but cant find the lputil.
This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre channel for oracle solaris driver settings for emulex fibre channel cards p3am270204enz0. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. 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. 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. The luns as defined in nf as 0, 1, 2 became solaris disk devices c2t0d0, c2t0d1, c2t0d2. This prevents unwanted luns from being mapped if there are any zoning errors, thereby keeping the solaris disk environment tidy.
Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. Emulex lp0dcm2f download drivers, utilities, manual. In solaris 8 and 9 environments, lpfc drivers were frequently used and are still available. Fc driver alias pres boot oracle emlxs elxfc lpfc models elxfc f100. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning.
Changing host group modes for ports where servers are already installed and configured is disruptive and requires the server to be rebooted. You can customize these scripts and run them to automate the migration process. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single. 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.
So if native non oracle emulex driver is in use then the luxadm command will not work. For solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model. From some of the documents ive read, you may have to use the lpfc driver for solaris rather than the emlxs driver. 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. Feb 11, 2014 the lpfc driver has been upstream for many years and can be readily found in the distributions. Emulex drivers for linux release notes broadcom inc. Recent driver kits can be found on the website as well as websites for various oems. 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. How to find the wwn world wide name in sun solaris sun. The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9. Solaris 9 os or solaris 8 os download and install the appropriate driver from the oracle website. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host. Driver installation is not necessary because the osbundled driver is used.
How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas. From the modinfo, it is found that there are no lpfc or emlxs that are loaded. The fcinfo command may not work in solaris 8 and 9. To find the module parameters supported by an lpfc driver module, type. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide. Using fcinfo solaris 10 only this is probably the easiest way to find the wwn numbers on your hba card. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfc elxfc fc hba driver to oracle emulex emlxs fc hba driver doc id 55027. View and download fujitsu eternus dx configuration manual online. Jul 15, 2009 today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlogmessages. Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris drivers for emulex it tells how to switch control over from emlxs to lpfc.
This patchset mainly adds be3 hardware support to the lpfc driver. Before installing this product, uninstall the gr multipath driver. Solaris 10 update 8 emulex fibre adapter oracle community. Installs the driver to the proper directory for the currently running kernel. Configuring amcc, emulex, and qlogic host device drivers.
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. Lpfc driver upgrade today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. 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. Download and install the lpfc driver from the emulex website. Fault management overview oracle solaris administration.
Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single port hbas. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris. 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. 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.
Emulex drivers for linux for lightpulse adapters release notes 5 drvlinlpern1144100 note. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host ibm. 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. This project is a development area for a linux device driver for emulex fibre channel hbas, targetting the linux 2. Installs the driver source files to the usrsrc lpfc directory. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a solaris host. Remove the part with the light on and power up the server.
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