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PowerPath Checklist — New Solaris Server and Existing Storage System
5-21
Solaris Installation Checklists
12 Server
Make target SPs
available (cont.)
❑
Checkpoint - Use the inquiry
option of the format command to
verify the paths to the storage
system. Alternate paths will have
a device with an ID of
drive type
unknown
.
❑
Checkpoint - Use the inquiry
option of the format command to
verify the paths to the storage
system. Alternate paths will have
a device with an ID of
drive type
unknown.
Solaris documentation
Note The format command will
display n+1 device entries for
each LUN, where n is the number
of paths to the LUN. One of these
entries is a PowerPath device and
the other n entries are native
devices.
Note The format command will
display n+1 device entries for
each LUN, where n is the number
of paths to the LUN. One of these
entries is a PowerPath device and
the other n entries are native
devices.
13 Storage System
Configure
❑
If the server will use an
existing
Storage Group, use Navisphere
Manager to connect the server to
the Storage Group.
Navisphere Manager
administrator’s guide
and online help
❑
If the server will use a
new
Storage Group, use Navisphere
Manager to create RAID Groups,
bind LUNs, create the Storage
Group, and assign LUNs to the
Storage Group.
❑
Use Navisphere Manager to
connect the server to the Storage
Group.
❑
Reboot the server using the
reboot - - -r command so that
Solaris recognizes the LUNs.
Now the LUNs in the Storage
Group look like any other disks in
the server.
❑
Reboot the server using the
reboot - - -r command so that
Solaris recognizes the LUNs.
Now the LUNs look like any other
disks in the server.
Solaris documentation
❑
Checkpoint - Use the format
command to verify that Solaris
recognizes the LUNs.
If Solaris does not recognize any
LUNs, verify the connection to the
Storage Group.
❑
Checkpoint - Use the format
command to verify that Solaris
recognizes the LUNs.
❑
For an FC4500, disconnect the
computer from the serial port on
the storage system.
❑
For an FC4500, disconnect the
computer from the serial port on
the storage system.
Storage-system setup
guide
Task
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