Problems fetching EMC disks to Solaris OS.

orac · August 14, 2008, 9:28am

Hi,

I have a nasty little problem with my disks on my system
My system configuration is as follows
Sunv890 with sunos 9 connected tot a IBM6800 SAN using a 2port 2 GB qla2342 adapter.

We have bought a EMC SAN. The company who sold us the san, said that it would be no problem connecting the emc disk to my machine.
The problem now is that i can see the disks on my adapter, even using luns, but i can't seem to see the disks at an OS level.

I tried
reconfiguring the qla2300 adapter using qlreconfig -d qla2300 -v
devfsadm
reboot with a reconfigure

I cannot install the emc driver software, because it will make my IBM software turn crazy.

Does anyone have an idea?
Thnkz

pupp · August 14, 2008, 9:44am

do you have a san switch for zoning/masking?

orac · August 14, 2008, 10:03am

I'm sorry, i didn't mentioned.
Yes we do have a san switch for zoning. The couldn't help me either. I't s frustrating that a can see the disks (mirrored) on my hba adapter.

pupp · August 14, 2008, 10:30am

so you are not seeing these under format?

what do you see for

 ls -l /dev/fc/fp*

are these seen in /etc/path_to_inst

orac · August 15, 2008, 4:48am

Im sorry im having problems posting here

nothing under format

ls -l dev/fc/fp* gives me /dev/fc/fp0 -> /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl
And there is nothing in /etc/path_to_inst.
thnkz

incredible · August 15, 2008, 5:38am

Is the LUN ids populated in the sd.conf file, wwn and its target reflected correctly in the lpfc.conf file?

orac · August 15, 2008, 5:48am

Hi,
The lun is populated in the sd.conf, but i can't seem te find any lpfc.conf file. Is that maybe because i'm using a qlogic hba?

thkns

incredible · August 15, 2008, 6:31am

Yes, if its a SUN qlogic, maybe .. so no /kernel/drv/lpfc.conf ..
did you install the lputil utility..? anything shown using the powermt display dev=all command?

pupp · August 15, 2008, 12:27pm

i have a feeling its not attaching the drivers.

can you give us output of modinfo?

pupp · August 15, 2008, 2:16pm

i'm wondering about luxadm -e forcelip /dev/fc/fp0
i've never actually done this on a hba. how others worked with forcelip?

also, you don't happen to have the emulex utilities installed for emulexinfo

orac · August 18, 2008, 6:58am

sorry for the late reply,

The software on the machine is whithout the software from EMC. I know what you guys maybe thinking, but EMC assured me, it should work only using the QLA2300 software from my HBA. If i would install the EMC drivers next to the IBM (F20) drivers for the disks, my system would probably crash.

So i have no EMC software installed, and i can only see the emc disks on the LUN of my HBA.