Under mpxio, you must be running solaris 10 u2 or later i personally would recommend u4 with only security patches. The faq on the emulex site is not quite clear on this issue as far as i can tell. The cause of this is that updating from oracle solaris 11. Perform the following steps to disable multipathing on all multipathcapable devices on sparc or x86 based systems.
Notes on updating the sparc m12 system to oracle solaris. But no one can tell will it affect the system or not and the system is sol10 and using veritas volume manager and attached. Solaris 10 os 807, the solaris ip filter firewall can also filter traffic flowing between solaris containers when its configured in the global zone. Some references suggest that the leadville driver framework may. But no one can tell will it affect the system or not and the system is sol 10 and using veritas volume manager and attached. In this post, there is discussed the steps how to enable or disable multipathing for sun solaris with hp storage systems. Support for solaris mpxio in conjunction with dynamic multi. Solaris 10 qlogic 4060c iscsi adapter multipathed mpxio.
This page discusses configuring storage exported from 3par to solaris 10 using native mpxio we have 2 dual port hba connected to 3par t. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for x86 systems. The old solaris luxadm command still manage fc arrays, but mpathadm command has been developed to work on all the arrays using fc, sas, and iscsi connections. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. However after noticing powerpath was only displaying 1 path to the disks, i realised that this is because mpxio is enabled solariss version of multi. For solaris 10 sparcrun the stmsboot command and confirm the reboot. Stopping and starting services on solaris 10 everycity. For the target internal sas disks and ssds, see table 42. Get emcs cross reference for your system os, os patches, hba, hba firmware, symantecveritas storage foundation, storage foundation maintenance pack mps, storage foundation rolling patches rps, emc powerpath and powerpath patches. For solaris 8 or 9run a reconfiguration reboot in order to activate the changes. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
I manage to set up both hbas to connect the unix and linux forums. Support for solaris mpxio in conjunction with dynamic multipathing. Mar 22, 20 posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. Sparc physical domains pdoms, oracle vm server for sparc, and oracle solaris zones can be used independently or in combination to increase isolation, add redundancy, or increase virtualization density. Hi all, does emulex fc hbas support mpxio on solaris 10. Build your system make sure you patch solaris 10 with all appropriate sfs patches. Configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize v7000 volumes.
A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio or. I have tried implementing mpxio with emulex cards with no success. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio. To prepare for either enabling or disabling mpxio on a specific drive port, specify ls l devcfg on the command line. In current oracle solaris releases, the command is used to enable or disable multipathing on serialattached scsi devices as well as fc devices. Notes on updating the sparc m12 system to oracle solaris 11. Notes on internal sas disks, ssds, and oracle solaris mpxio settings. Configuring solaris mpxio to work with a clariion cx500. To enable mpxio, you need to edit kerneldrvnf and change the line mpxio disable yes to mpxio disable no. I was installing solaris10 recommended patch cluster and it came out. Solaris admin reference solaris storage multipathing.
In current oracle solaris releases, the command is used to enable or disable multipathing on serialattached scsi devices as. From the output returned, select the port you would like to either enable or disable. What i want to avoid is using mpathadm on each lun that. Dmp is included with storage foundation and is the preferred multipathing solution for device presentation. After reading through a bunch of blog posts and various manual pages, i decided to configure a. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio or stms. Zeusiops multipathing failed solaris 11 unix and linux forums. How to enable solaris multipathing for hitachi storage. Still, make sure the above entry is set accordingly. Dec 10, 2009 hi saif, suggest me about few questions. Configuring solaris mpxio to work with a clariion cx500 storage array after installing solaris 10 update 1 last week, i wanted to see how well mpxio worked with a clariion cx500.
To globally enable or disable mpxio, run one of the following. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. If you need a more detailed introduction to smf then there is a good article on. This document describes the correct way to configure solaris mpxio. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. Hp 3par solaris implementation guide abstract this implementation guide provides information for establishing communications between an hp 3par storeserv storage system and a solaris 8, 9, 10, or 11 host running on the sparc, x64, and x86 platforms. It will ensure they startup when the server boots up and that they will be restarted if they are stopped for any reason. Postinstallation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 6 os. Solaris considers any path that appears to the os as anything but failed to be operational. Oracle solaris storage multipathing mpxio provides multipath access to storage luns by grouping together the physical paths and presenting a single logical path. May 28, 2008 i was attempting to troubleshoot issues as a user was complaining about slow performance on a san disk.
Solaris io multipathing mpxio does not automatically function with some third party storage doc id 1580076. This feature was formerly known as sun storedge traffic manager stms or mpxio. How to enable multipathing on solaris 10 x86 connected. Below i post nice step using new method its too late for me. Veritas provides support if you run solaris mpxio in conjunction with veritas dynamic multipathing dmp as outlined in the configuration requirements above. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. I am using 2xx6768as qlogic 2gbit cards dual port, only one port on each is used. Hello admins, how do i enable stms mpxio on solaris 10. For the solaris 9 os, change the value of the mpxiodisable parameter to no.
The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. The easy way to enable disable global mpxio on solaris. First thing that i did was check to ensure that there were not any performance issues on any disks that might have been causing this users issues a quick iostat verified that everything was looking fine iostat continue reading verify solaris 10 multipathingconfigure san disk. Removing patches from zone nt4 removing patches from zone sfw removing patches from global zone removing patch idr14836326. With the release of the solaris 10 update 4 os, the stmsboot1m command is now available for use on sparc, x86, and x64 based systems to enable or disable multipathing for fibre channel fc and sas devices. Change the mpxiodisable parameter to the following. This article describes veritas support of solaris mpxio in conjunction. Solaris io multipathing mpxio does not automatically.
Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. And posts on the net seems to suggest it not possibly to use mpxio with emulex. Ibm configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. I recently did a quick install of solaris 10, then presented some clariion disks to it and installed powerpath. The stmsboot command updates the etcvfstab file and dump configuration to reflect device name changes during the next reboot. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Solaris 10 fully up to date with latest patches iscsi hba. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi.
I found out that my system setting for mpxio disableyes. Change the mpxio disable parameter to the following. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Here i will introduce the basic tools you need to control your smf managed services. Snia multipath management api and multipathing utiliti. Entries that use a sign will work with or without spaces around the sign. Please note that other configurations have been seen to cause io errors.
Solaris san configuration and multipathing guide oracle help. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi with symantec storage foundation dmp 3 overview the purpose of this guide is to provide a quick overview on how to configure the oracle zfs storage appliance to provide fibre channel and iscsi storage for use with symantec storage foundation dynamic multipathing dmp. Sun recommend to change it to mpxio disable no and run stmsboot e command. It enables a storage device to be accessed through multiple host controller interfaces from a single operating system instance. Multipath for solaris with ds4800 ibm system storage forum. Our san team is going to perform an upgrade on the san switches and i want to disable one of the hbas during this upgrade. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Solaris multiplexed io mpxio, known also as sun storagetek traffic manager sstm, earlier sun storedge traffic manager, is multipath io software for solaris os. I did a reinstallation of update 6 and by just adding disable mpxio no. For the solaris 10 os, you enable the solaris multipathing feature, which is. Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. How to enable solaris multipathing mpxio or stms for emc. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
Configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize. Notes on updating a sparc m10 system to oracle solaris 11. The multipathing support is identified with the multipath management api plugin library name. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Oracle solaris storage multipathing mpxio provides multipath access to storage. To enable mpxio for fc drives, run the following command. Enabling or disabling mpxio multipathing per port azizs blog. For solaris 10 x86reboot the system to load the new definition if you are configuring for xp.
Ensure that the qlc driver configuration file kerneldrvnf does not contain the global setting. Premium content you need an expert office subscription to comment. Multipathing provides the ability to set up multiple redundant paths to a storage system and gives you the benefits of load balancing and failover. Solaris 10 mpxio disabling an hba for san maintenance. Oracle call mpxio storagetek traffic manager software or stms which made the docs harder to find. Find answers to disabling x server in solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris multiplexed io mpxio, known also as sun storagetek traffic manager sstm, earlier sun storedge traffic manager, is multipath io software for solaris illumos. This document explain the configuration steps to enable solaris multipathing aka stms, mpxio support under solaris 8, solaris 9 and solaris 10 for hitachi array identified as hitachidf600f not for hitachi 99xx sun storagetek se99xx series. Not sure about your question but to disable dtlogin run. Its a bit confusing when we setup mpxio storage multipath using old method in solaris 10 811, and i found panic message and auto rebooted server.
The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. Disabling x server in solaris 10 solutions experts exchange. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Solaris 10, 2 hbas, mpxio and a few luns zoned to both hbas. I found out that my system setting for mpxio disable yes. I havent been able to find docs for earlier version but the lack of the fcinfo command and preleadville fc drivers must make it a real chore. But no one can tell will it affect the system or not and the system is sol 10. Should we use mpxio for any san boot or can we live without using mpxio. Enabling mpxio on solaris 10 solaris mpxio provides a multipathing solution for storage devices accessible through multiple physical paths. In the case of activecluster configurations, a path will be in a standby state during a resync operation, but is not available to perfom io, and should not be considered as operational. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem.
Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Server is only going fine while fc cable was unplugged, it means multipath is failed. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. Verify that the loadbalance and autofailback parameters are set to the following valuesthe default setting may vary depending on the patch level os version. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Corrective action take the following actions after updating to oracle solaris 11. How to install solaris io multipathing software sun cluster. Note in previous oracle solaris releases, the stmsboot command was used to enable or disable multipathing on the boot device only for sparc based hosts only.
Note that a device path name is not changed if mpxio of an internal sas disk or an ssd of the sparc m10 system is enabled manually before updating to oracle solaris 11. If you want to enable multipathing, change the value of mpxio disable to no. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. For more solaris commands interview questions click. Removing mpxio devices without a reboot on solaris 10. Solaris io multipathing gives you the ability to set up multiple redundant paths to a storage system and gives you the benefits of load balancing and failover. The solaris io multipathing feature is a multipathing solution for storage devices that is part of the solaris operating environment. In addition, tcp wrappers are integrated into the solaris 10 os, limiting access to servicebased allowed domains or partner. Mpxio functionality requires enabling the symmetrix director cbitflag. The only lun which i mapped to default storage domain is showing four paths instead of one. How to enable solaris multipathing mpxio or stms for emc symmetrix luns. One thought on verify solaris 10 multipathingconfigure san disk hanspaul drumm.
Management of services on solaris 10 is handled by smf, which stands for service management facility. Ive finally successfully hooked up a sun v880 to our san. Solaris fibre channel and storage multipathing software enables fc connectivity for the solaris hosts. Enabling or disabling mpxio multipathing per port azizs. This paper assumes that oracle vm server for sparc is being used, and describes best practices for. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Solaris 10 is the easier, because the mpxio capability is builtin. Need to enable mpxio solaris 10 is the easier, because the mpxio capability is builtin. Execute the following command and forcibly disable the mpxio setting of the internal sas.
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