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EMC INQ utility

Posted in HBA, Solaris Comm, Sun Storage on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Inquiry utility (INQ) is a command-line troubleshooting utility that displaysinformation on storage devices, typically Symmetrix. By default, INQreturns the device name, Symmetrix ID, Symmetrix LUN, and capacity. Thisutility will operate independently of any other EMC software. Use the INQUtility to collect system information to provide to EMC Global Servicesfor problem troubleshooting.
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fcinfo command missing in Solaris 10 3/05

Posted in Solaris, Solaris Comm, Sun Storage on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

fcinfo command appeared only from Solaris 10 u1  ( Solaris 10 1/06).
If you have it missing, that chances are you have the old Solaris 10 version.
bash-3.00# cat /etc/release                         Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC           Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.                        Use is subject to license terms.                            Assembled 22 January 2005

fcinfo command is provided [...]

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Replace a Failed Internal Disk (non Hardware-RAID) Sun Fire[TM] V440 Server

Posted in Solaris, Sun Storage on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This following document describes the process of replacing a failed internal disk on the Sun Fire[TM] V440 server when the disk is not mirrored using the on-board hardware RAID controller.
1. Verify which disk drive corresponds with which logical device name andphysical device name. Listed below is the table for the v440 disk devices:
Disk Slot Number    [...]

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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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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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