Installing and configuring the hba and driver 11 1 invisible body tag this chapter describes the procedures for installing an emcapproved qlogic host bus adapter hba into a sun solaris host environment and configuring the host for connection to an emc storage array over fibre channel. Depending on whether you have qlogic qlc or emulex emlx cards, you will grep for that variable. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the geek. The native solaris fcinfo and the aix fcstat commands may be more appropriate than running hbainfo. Solaris interview question and answers in hbas and drivers. Determine wwn for hba cards, without fiber connection. Its been passed through running esxi aio, geastyle and shows up when running the lspci command as follows. Hi, i have a two port hba card in solaris 10 system one of which is disabled. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies.
Dec 09, 2010 sometime in the last couple months the emulex utilities for the leadville drivers stopped working on solaris 10 and i lost my old method of collecting wwns on the server. How would i go about zeroing the counters for these stats. Useful stuff i hope, at least to me, because while we all love fiber storage, before it can. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as.
Solaris9 qlogic hbas luxadm reports found path to 0 hba ports. Todd, the array lun number is ok, its the host id number that i wan concerned about. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on solaris. Boot server from a oracle source media, such as, cdromdvd then check if still have issue or not. Mar 07, 2011 to find the wwn of these cards, prtconf vp can be used instead starting with solaris 10, the new command fcinfo can also be used for this task. Troubleshooting fibre channel fc hba card that is not. Note that there are two dashes in front of static and sendtargets. For some reason it displays as one dash in some browsers. Unix scrabbles that might be usefull or not patricks unix blog. This file is a compressed solaris install package for use with all qlogic qla23xx pci to fc adapters, qcp234x cpci to fc, and qsb234x sbus to fc adapters. Plugins for sap, oracle, informix, serviceguard, fiber channelsan, tipix, opentext ixoslea, sn mass storage like mas, emc, eva, xps, network node manager and. I wrote it to fill a need on an aix system and have since ported it to solaris. To find the wwn of these cards, prtconf vp can be used instead starting with solaris 10, the new command fcinfo can also be used for this task.
Open the storage group for the host you should see thre tree items lists open the host tree item and you should see the host listed right click on the host and select connectivity status the paths should be listed as logged in and registered make sure all paths are listed correctly. The 4 most commonly used commands are fcinfo hbaport, prtpicl, luxadm e port and. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on hpux. All 10 entries tagged solaris, paul eggletons weblog. Firmware is the latestgreatest, driver version is 2. Now i want to know the command through which i can get information about all above ports. We have an installation solaris 10u7 x86 in a x46xx box with qlogic hba s 2432 fw 4. Oct 05, 2015 viewing the world wide name for an hba port each hba port has a world wide name wwn associated with it. The drivers for the single and dual port hbas are delivered as packages and patches on solaris 8 and 9 os. Many web browsers, such as internet explorer 9, include a download manager. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the. Standalone download managers also are available, including the microsoft download manager. How to configure ipmp network interface on solaris 11.
Each of them have two dual port hp branded emulex hba lpe12002 cards. The card seems to be on the illumos hcl, so it should be supported. Its been passed through running esxi aio, geastyle and shows up when running the. Resetting fcinfo hbaport error stats on solaris 10 x64. For the official solaris 9 releases, a vintage support contract is required. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on.
Download fibre channel information tool fcinfo from. Check the hba fcinfo commandif the older version of the hba is installed, the output looks like this. The 4 most commonly used commands are fcinfo hba port, prtpicl, luxadm e port and prtdiag. Check the hba fcinfo command sparc t54 server product. Hi guys ive recently gotten my dirty hands on some 4gbit fc hbas.
I have a number of hp dl 560 servers running solaris 10 x64 1 u11. Check using fcinfo hbaport emulex firmware can be downloaded from emulex site and the latest driver from oracle support siteyou must have an account. How to find wwn number of hba in linux,solaris,aix. Troubleshooting fibre channel fc hba card that is not seen. Check the hba fcinfo command if the older version of the hba is installed, the output looks like this. If solaris os was newly installed the issue maybe os is missing some packagespatches. Solaris 10 hba port offline solutions experts exchange. Regardless if a fc hba port is seeing any storage devices the fc hba card itself is normally recognized by the solaris operating system and listed in several command outputs including. You can uses one of the following ways to view wwns.
How to find your fiber hba world wide node wwn numbers on solaris. Yes, mpxio is qualified with emc storage with the following considerations and exceptions. Viewing the world wide name for an hba port tigers blog. Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. Wwns are unique identifiers that the invista instance uses to identify its virtual targets and virtual initiators. How to find fiber host bus adapter hba wwn on linux. Solaris 10 update 9 with patch 14648905 is the miniimum version that has been. Two commands you can use in case one is not available sponsored links sponsored links fcinfo hbaport prtpicl v c scsifcp. Sometime in the last couple months the emulex utilities for the leadville drivers stopped working on solaris 10 and i lost my old method of collecting wwns on the server. There is a solaris 10 command called fcinfo that will give you more information on your fibre devices. It also collects data on any fibre channel targets that may be connected to those ports in a storage area network san. This is a list of commands that will display many details of your fiber channel hba and fc configuration in solaris.
Sun solaris how tos, tips tricks troubleshooting procedures. Execute the following commands to find and reset hba port on solaris 10 and solaris 11. Unknown type, host bus adapter 1 ef 0 ef 500000e0459a81 500000e0459a80 0x0 disk device 2 e8 1 e8 500000e045ff81 500000e045ff80 0x0 disk device. The one i want to utilize in my omnios box is a dual port emulex hba. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris. Check the hba fcinfo command sparc t54 server product notes. Here are some useful commands for the most popular linuxunix operating systems to find your hba wwn. A solaris host with seemingly functional fc hba ports is unable to display those ports with the cfgadm or fcinfo commands. It is a port of the tcpdrop utility from freebsd and openbsd. How to enable hba port of a two port hba card unix. Jun 10, 2019 if solaris os was newly installed the issue maybe os is missing some packages patches. I have tried resetting the port and even powercycled the silkworm, but the port stays in offline state, apparently because the emulex hba has switched off the gbic phy. Use fcinfo command to view wwn on solaris servers bash3.
Command usage for fcinfo must be root to get results from this command, it wont return an error, just the message. Two commands you can use in case one is not available sponsored links sponsored links fcinfo hba port prtpicl v c scsifcp. The hba is connected to a brocade silkworm with a 5. Viewing the world wide name for an hba port each hba port has a world wide name wwn associated with it. Oct 14, 20 fcinfo is a command line interface that collects administrative information on fibre channel host bus adapter hba ports on a host.
Ethernetip network interface cards nic with fibre channel interfaces can be mistaken for fc hba cards. Display fiber channel hba and fc configuration in solaris. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on hp. The 4 most commonly used commands are fcinfo hbaport, prtpicl, luxadm e port and prtdiag. Since i have written this, aix now includes a similar utility. For brevity sake i am dividing this into a number of posts. Patricks unix blog unix scrabbles that might be usefull. Im running solaris 10 in a solaris mahcine and i dont know why a hba port is in offline state. Configuring fcoe ports oracle solaris administration. We have an installation solaris 10u7 x86 in a x46xx box with qlogic hbas 2432 fw 4. Display fiber channel hba and fc configuration in solaris slice2. Identifying hba cards and wwn numbers in solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11.
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