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HP ProLiant DL380 Array configuration tool for SLES 8

Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

# cat /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0cciss0: HP Smart Array 5i ControllerBoard ID: 0×40800e11Firmware Version: 2.66IRQ: 10Logical drives: 3Current Q depth: 0Current # commands on controller: 0Max Q depth since init: 128Max # commands on controller since init: 128Max SG entries since init: 31
Sequential access devices: 0
cciss/c0d0:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)cciss/c0d1:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)cciss/c0d2:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)
 
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HP Array Configuration [...]

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Solaris 10 Leaville Fibre Channel Adapter (FCA) driver

Posted in HBA, Hardware, Solaris, Sun Storage on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Solaris 10 comes with Leadville stack, is basically the code name for the StorEdge SAN Foundation Software (SFS) which Sun developed for the Solaris OS. Leadville is a new, open standards-based I/O framework and device driver stack to support FC which includes I/0 stack, Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software (multipathing or MPxIO), Storage Networking Industry [...]

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Solaris 10 and Brocade SAN Setup

Posted in HBA, Hardware, Solaris, Vmware on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is some information/walkthrough of getting Solaris 10 hooked up to a SAN. Also info on SUN/STK NAS devices. I think the SUN/STK NAS’s are way nicer then NetApps. Also covers SUN 6000 series array setup. A few Brocade notes also. Covers UFS and Veritas vxvm and vxfs setup for new LUNs. This is a [...]

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SPARCstorage Array 100 and Sun StorEdge A5×00 Array Commands

Posted in Hardware, Solaris, Sun Storage on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The most commonly used command to determine very specific information about these two storage devices.
# luxadm probe# luxadm display controller_number# luxadm display enclosure_name# luxadm display logical_path# luxadm display enclosure_name, disk_location# luxadm fcode_download -p

Like:

WWN (12 or 16 digits)
Enclosure Name
Number Disks Installed
Number of Controller

The luxadm utility does not recognize the Sun StorEdge D1000 array.Specific array information [...]

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Replace an internal FibreChannel drive that is under VxVM control

Posted in Hardware, Solaris on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Details: This specific procedure must be used when replacing one of the internal fibre drives within the following servers and/or arrays:

Sun Fire 280R, V480, and V880.
SENA A5X00 Arrays.

Note: Failure to follow this procedure could result in a duplicate device entry for the replaced disk in Volume Manager. This is most notable [...]

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