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DMP Checklist - New Linux Server and New Storage System
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Linux Installation Checklist
7Switch
Connect servers
and SPs
❑
Verify that the servers and SPs are connected to the switch. Documentation that ships
with the switches
8Switch
Zone switches
For a SAN
❑
Zone switches.
This provides a path from the host initiator to the SP.
You will need to know the WWPN of the host initiators - available in the
switch’s name server table.
Documentation that ships
with the switches
❑
Reboot the server using the reboot command to load the drivers and
perform a login of the host initiators and SPs to the fabric ports on the
switch.
❑
Checkpoint - Use switch management software to verify that the HBAs
and storage systems are logged in to the switch as fabric ports, and to
verify that each HBA sees only the targets (SPs) to which it is zoned.
9 Server
Add persistent
bindings
❑
Add persistent bindings to the HBA driver configuration file. HBA documentation (see
URL on Page 3-40)
10 Storage System
Verify host
initiators are
registered
❑
Before you connect the server to a storage group, use the Connectivity
Status dialog in Navisphere Manager to verify that the host initiators are
registered.
Navisphere Manager
administrator’s guide and
online help
11 Storage System
Connect host
initiators to
Storage Groups
❑
Use Navisphere Manager to connect servers to Storage Groups Navisphere Manager
administrator’s guide and
online help
❑
Reboot the server using the reboot command so that Linux recognizes
the LUNs.
Now the LUNs in the Storage Group look like any other disks in the
server.
❑
Checkpoint - Use the fdisk -l command to verify that the operating
system sees all the LUNs and label any new LUNs.
12 Server
Install Volume
Manager and
DMP
❑
Use the rpm command to add Volume Manager and DMP to the server.
❑
Install any recommended VERITAS updates.
VERITAS Volume
Manager documentation
Important To install the CLARiiON DMP driver, you must install VERITAS 3.2
update 2.
Be sure to label all LUNs in order to make them visible to VERITAS DMP.
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