After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of. Administering multipathing devices through mpathadm commands 9. Device driver configuration driver customizations are made in the etcdriverdrv directory. Table 9 leadville driver version and package solaris os version leadville driver released mu driver level oracle patch solaris 10 sparc mu11 1 qlc 201207174. For solaris 10, use the stmsboot command which will perform the modifications and then initiate a reboot. How to change emulex drivers in solaris from lpfc to emxls. Anyone successfully using ibmtape driver with emlxs hba driver. How to check the hba name, make, model, firmware, driver. Dont see a solaris 10 x86 driver for the 1150 or the 1105. Emulex provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind, either.
Linux lpfc driver download while running an ubuntu kernel not a mainline or thirdparty kernel please enter the following command in a terminal window. For solaris 89, after you have rebooted and the ldev has been defined as a lun to the host, use the cfgadm command to configure the controller instances for san connectivity. Emc host connectivity guide for sun solaris solaris. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlogmessages. Using fcinfo solaris 10 only this is probably the easiest way to find the wwn numbers on your hba card. How do i know which hba cards hardware i have on solaris 10.
For solaris 11 in case of solaris 11, files in the directory kerneldrv and etc driver drv are the sample default configuration files delivered with os not used by mpxio. How do i know which hba cards hardware i have on solaris. To change the driver hba bindings, run the emlxdrv utility. Emulex lp9002 card running the latest qualified drivers. The following tables contrast the structure of these operating systems. Is this information valid i dont like what i see bottom of the link solaris 10 and ibmtape with tsm tsm tivoli storage manager requires you to use the ibmtape driver and not the native solaris st driver to speak to your tapes. Hba replacement is one of the major and tricky task in solaris as it involves the understanding of wwn. Nov 28, 2017 in this case, the issue occurs when solaris uses the lpfc driver.
For the emulex hba bios, perform the following steps. New driver package will replace the nf and nf files. There are simple solaris commands to rescan the fibre channel busses and to remove. Emc host connectivity guide for sun solaris pn 300000607 rev a11 emc corporation corporate headquarters. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single. For example, the smart array, sil2424 and ata hba, as shown in the above configuration, do not supply that information. Sun solaris 10, update 1, x86x64 fibre channel operating system booting. The emulexsun lightpulse hba device driver for solaris, emlxs, is a fibre channel adapter fca driver as specified by the sun fibre channel architecture also known as leadville.
Solaris instructions for migration of emulex host bus adapters to leadville stack prerequisites. Beginning with solaris 10 update 1, the emulex leadville fca driver is bundled with the operating system. You will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. What are the queue depth settings for solaris for emulex. On a working node, it is found that emlxs driver loaded correctly. Identifying hba cards and wwn numbers in solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11. See how papi is implemented in the solaris os for more information. Raid arrays may want to be configured using the pertarget tunable throttles. So if native non oracle emulex driver is in use then the luxadm command will not work. The location of the configuration files is etcdriverdrv. The heart of the sun fibre channel architecture consists of the fibre channel transport layer fctl modules, which provide a common interface for various fibre.
To find the wwn numbers of your hba card in sun solaris, you can use one the following procedures. After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of up then down events very rapidly several times a second. If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10. These print commands are layered on top of the papi.
The 4 configuration files used in case of solaris 11 are the same, performing the same task. Chapter 11 printing in the solaris operating system. Hi, i need to increase a veritas filesystem i have currently mounted on a. These unsupported sample script files can help you migrate from the solaris lpfc driver to the solaris sfs driver.
The driver to install varies with the type of solaris tm operating system. You can customize these scripts and run them to automate the migration process. Seems to do a rescan for new disks, but i can not see new luns. Hi, im trying to determine which hba cards are installed on my solaris 10. Commands used to configure the hba with this driver. Our storage nodes are connected to an adic i500, lto4 drives. Both old wwn for faulty hba and new wwn for newly installed hba are required for zoning and masking to map the hba paths from storage end. Fibre channel fc host bus adaptershba are interface cards that connects the host system to a fibre channel network or devices.
On sles 11 systems, if another scsi driver, such as aic79xx, is loaded right behind the. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide. Give the value of the last sector or the partition size. Tasks are grouped according to major categories that are listed below. If you are running at least the solaris express developer edition 507 release, ppd files are located in any of following four repositories on the system. 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. We recently had an issue with a brief fabric outage causing vxvm dmp to disable the path down one hba lp0 using the lpfc driver on a pair of solaris 8 vcs cluster nodes. Chapter 2 setup procedure for emulex fibre channel cards. Starting the hbanyware utility from the command line. Lpe11002m4 the procedure for all model will remain same. The relevant data i have is below, but from it i cannot ascertain for sure if i have emulex 0 or the unix and linux forums.
Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris drivers for emulex it tells how to switch control over from emlxs to lpfc. If the installation path changed, you must adjust the command appropriately. One the most useful new command i found in solaris 10 is fcinfo, a command line interface that will display information on hba ports on a host, but also many useful bits of information on connected storage remote port wwn, raid type, link status,etc. Mar 22, 2007 one the most useful new command i found in solaris 10 is fcinfo, a command line interface that will display information on hba ports on a host, but also many useful bits of information on connected storage remote port wwn, raid type, link status,etc. I have removed the lpfc driver and installed the leadville driver for the hba cards the driver is. From some of the documents ive read, you may have to use the lpfc driver for solaris rather than the emlxs driver. Although most fibre channel drivers register a model name and description within sysfs, not all scsi drivers will. For solaris 10, use the oracle update manager to install the latest patches. For those types of cards you must use lspci k to retrieve the information. After all emulex adapters have been enabled to boot from san, the system has been rebooted, and you show all system. Emulex is targeting a subsequent release to address this issue.
X that contains the emlxs driver which is supplied with the installation cds of solaris 10. For information on the device names that are used to identify devices on the system, see device naming conventions driver not attached message. Emulex drivers for linux release notes broadcom inc. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the geek. This value is global, affecting each target recognized by the driver, but may be overridden on a pertarget basis see below.
Emulex drivers for linux release notes 3 pub005463 note. On other servers attached to the same fabric, the path recovered at the os level on its own and the dmp path was reenabled shortly after. If you are creating a second partition on the same disk, we need to add 1 to the last sector of the previous partition. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas. Looking for help as to why solaris 8 lpfc path didnt recover. 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. Here you can see the hba port wwn wwpn and the node wwn wwnn of the two ports on the installed qlogic hab card. The lp print service client commands have been modified to be a consumer of the fsg openprinting open standard print api papi. More discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived.
Solaris to aix use this reference to contrast the aix version 4. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single port hbas. Do not use linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update. Sfs install other san tools in addition to emulex drivers above, which can stay on machine even if lpfc driver is used. I am using emulex lp0 hbas connected to an ibm ds400 disk array. The following driver related message might be displayed by the prtconf and sysdef commands. In this case, the issue occurs when solaris uses the lpfc driver.
For solaris 89, install the latest oracle storedge san software available from oracle website with associated patches. The two major manufacturers of fc hbas are qlogic and emulex and the drivers for many hbas are distributed inbox with the operating systems. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlog. Installing the emulex driver for solaris version 6. The location of the configuration files is etc driver drv. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage.
The host when the inquire command is run only shows the symmetrix luns that is already presented to the host and does not show the tape drivers. Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris. For solaris 11 in case of solaris 11, files in the directory kerneldrv and etcdriverdrv are the sample default configuration files delivered with os not used by mpxio. The 4 most commonly used commands are fcinfo hbaport, prtpicl, luxadm e port and prtdiag. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers. Oracle solaris administration san configuration and.
This is a database server, and the io is very busy to the array. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris. Emc host connectivity guide for sun solaris solaris hostconectivity 1. From the modinfo, it is found that there are no lpfc or emlxs that are loaded. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre channel for oracle solaris driver settings for emulex fibre channel cards p3am270204enz0. Before installing the emlxu utilities package, you must install the solaris 10 update. Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. Always recommended to give the size of the partition. If you are running the solaris 10 os, and you use solaris print manager to create the print queue, the ppd file must have an entry in the ppdcache file.