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Hello All,Any procedure out there to make an EMI labled disk bigger? I have a lun on a storage array that I need to make bigger. I've seen and done the procedure on SMI disks, but haven't been able to find a procedure for EMI labled disks.Any help is apprecaited.RK ...

We have a SUN E3500 with 3 fc-all disk drives. The disks configuration is : 1 boot disk and 2 mirrored disk . One of the mirrored disks fail and I need to change it. My actual disks are ST136403FC / PN 9L7004-022. Place help to make a good choise to buy a disk to replace the bad drive. I'm new ...

Sola9 + Oracle 9 + V490 + 3* 3510FC each with 10 disk. We put oracle to raid. One raid dedicated to oracle database, one other to oracle redo log. In case of our application, if we switch oracle redo log form 3510 to ramdisk (tmp) we got 5 times faster operation. But if we switch back to raid ...

We've recently purchased a new 3510 for use in a VCS cluster for our staging environment to drill configuration changes before applying them to our production system.I've taken 2 new 140gb drives and placed them in the 3510 to practice creating LDs, LVs, partitions and mapping them to the ...

I have buyed a used Sun Storage L1800 but the salesman has lost the password for the amdinistrator login. How can I reset the password by this storage. Thank you for your helpChris.

I have been searching SunSolve to locate information on the latest firmware revisions for the following:Seagate ST373307FHitichai DK32EJ72DK32EJ14Fujitsu MAP3735FAny ideas on how to find them?

Hello all, I'm currently facing a slight problem on work with a Storedge 3000 JBOD.Please reply if someone knows something about it. Well I'm running Solaris 9 on a Sun fire 480 with having attached a Storedge 33000 with 12 37GB disks using the Qlogic Pci scsi adapter. So the following ...

I am setting up a 3510 FC array, attached to 2xv490s locally via on-board HBA cards. Do I have to setup the 3510 on it's own network interface? I figured I could see the unit via the fibre connections into the HBAs to do a setup?Any ideasThanksJW

We have a StorEdge 3510 connected to a V440 running Solaris 9. /var/messages indicates no errors however iostat -e shows hard and transport errors that increment continuously. If I access the controller on the 3510 I can see transport errors when I look at the Fibre Chanel errors on the drive ...

hi,i am new in thisi want to connect Enterprise 220R with storEdge A1000, i have a SCSI cable but i do not know how to get into the StorEdge, i have Oracle10 on the 220R and i want to cluster with the StorEdgedo i have to install software on the StorEdge? or on the 220R?so any clue? any ...

I am running Sun Enterprise Backup (aka Legato Networker) 7.1 Business edition. The server is running on a Solaris 9/Sparc machine. The server is also a client. I also have Linux and Polaris clients.I am trying to get client savepnc scripts (for pre/post commands) working.(this would be to shutdown ...

Hi,while opening the CAM with the webbrowser we see the following message on top of the page:The CAM FMS engine may not be responding. Please contact your Technical Support Representative for assistance.We also cannot register our array to CAM because of FMS authentication connection ...

Hi All,Can anyone tell me where can i find documents proving that FLX240 will work on a 3 node cluster setup (3 p series) using HACMP. The flx240 is already in place. IBM is saying that HACMP doesnt supports flx240 in 3 node cluster, so they are positioning a new array,a DS4700. Many thanks in ...

I have 2 t3b's on en enterpise configuration with raid 1 + 0 on each of them.I have issued avol verify v1while connected on the serial console of the alternate master (v2) which resulted in a reboot on the alternate master and since then it is offline (online led is blinking yellow) and format ...

Hi Folks,I'm currently copying data from one 90G raid 5 storage to an EVA system. The old system has a 90g partition that's quickily filling to capacity. So I created a 500G partition on the EVA. I connected the drives, and can see them, etc. Now, I did a default format on the new 500G ...

Anyone out there using an L100 tape Library?We have one and every 3-4 month it requires service. It always seems to be that the picker assembly can't properly remove the tape from the tape drive which brings the whole library down. Power cycle and recalibrate the robot fixes it for 1 minute to ...

New T2000, Solaris 11/06, with 4 internal disks 0-4.Ships with internal drives default cache: read=enabled, write=disabled for all 4.(shown with format -e)Planning on:hardware mirroring OS disk (0 -> 1)hardware mirroring 2nd set (2 -> 3)1) Is it wise/safe to turn on write cache for OS ...

I connect a Sun server with Solaris10 and a HP server with Linux 3.0 to StorageTek 6140 using HBA cards respectively. I can detect the storage in Sun server, but can't in Linux. The HBA cards I use are SG-XPCI2FC-QF4. What I should do to connect both of them to the storage?

Hi,In my system, I have 2 Qlogic hba's (same model) and would like to be able to operate each hba with a different kernel driver. I can load my driver first and it knows to only bind the first hba, leaving the second available for the Qlogic driver. After doing the add_drv of my driver, I see ...

Somebody know if this hardware combination is supported: Platform: SUN E25K.OS: Solaris 8 y Solaris 9.HBA: SG-XPCI1FC-QF2, Firmware 1.14.09Switch: Sun SANbox2-16, Firmware 4.0.2.4.0San Foundation Kit, Release4.4.10SE6920, Firmware Version: 3.0.1.22The issue is: if i connect the fiber cable ...

I'm trying to setup 2 6140's.One of the issues I'm encountering is that the maximum volume size seems to be2tb. This limit is easily reached with the newer 500gb disks. Is there a way to create larger volumes ?

Hi I want to backup the entire file systems of Solaris9 server to a single tape. I also want to restore it when its is required.The backup drive is connected to a remote machine and proper access is there.Which is the best way ie., ufsdump, cpio,......... to do this and what is the exact syntax ...

Hi AllI have StorEdge 3320 (12x300Gb + 1 RAID Controler)i made RAID5 Array and saved settings on disksand a questen - if my single controler dead and i restored the settings from disks, would all settings (configuration Virtual Drivers, Partitions, LUNS and so on) ...

I am connecting an array to a SUN V440 and I am seeing these error :1. fcp: [ID 445167 kern.warning] WARNING: ssfcp_create_pip: fp1: no driver for device @w50001fe15008021d,0:fcp: [ID 445167 kern.warning] WARNING: ssfcp_create_pip: fp0: no driver for device @w50001fe15007e358,0:2. scsi: [ID ...

Hi All,I need to ask a question regarding secure path.We have E6900 sun hardware and Qlogic 2300 HBA adaptor. We connected this machine to HP EVA 5000 Storage and when we scan disks its showing two instead of one. I searched out some fourms and came to know that we have to install securepath ...

Hi,I'm evaluating Remote Mirror Software included in Sun StorEdge_ Availability Suite 3.1,I have found some questions I may ask anybody that knows this product.This software threats devices like raw devices or volomes SDS, VVM, SVM.It needs to store data information changes in a Bitmap file ...

We have an application that creates pthreads. The problem being when we hit the PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX. This is defined in limits.h. Is there anyway to bump this # up thru some system setting?. i.e Is it possible to increase the number of pthreads available to a process ?How:1) Recompile the ...

I had a failed disk on a v880 running Solaris 8 (108528-24). I mistakenly pulled the disk w/ out using the proper hot-plug procedure (luxadm remove_device). Now I can't seem to get the new drive online. I've tried - "reboot -- -r" and "luxadm insert_device".The new 36gb replacement drive is ...

I'm getting crap performance out of a 3511 array I just put in to service... backups took 50 hours and only got 9 GB...Suggestions to troubleshoot?

I am rebuilding an old E450 as a DR standby, and I am having trouble getting the server to see an A5200.Server is running solaris 9 patch rev Generic_117171-07OBP 3.22.0 2000/12/20 16:31POST 6.1.0 2000/12/20 16:32the server has 12 disks in it.I have the fcal's in slot 5 & 6 did a boot ...

Hello,I am having a problem recognizing an L25 library. Details of my hardware -I have tried using two different Netra T1 200 systems, with latest OBP (1.0.17), with a PCI dual differential scsi card (375-0006/X6541A). I have verified that the card is supported in the netra, and L25 is ...

hi,i have the following problem:a storedge 3310 with raid controller. i have partitioned the volume ( which consists of 6 raid 1 logical drives) into 4 partions and assigned luns to these partitions.probe-scsi-all shows the following:/pci@1e,600000/pci@2/scsi@4Target 0Unit 0 Disk SUN StorEdge ...

Hi,I have a new SE3510 FC Array. I have created the Logical Drive, Volumes and mapped LUN O to the controllers. But I am not able to see the array from my v240 system running Solaris 9.prtconf shows that the driver is not attached for the Qlogic adapter. However the required driver packages ...

Hi.I have troubles with AS 3.1 remote mirror software.When I reboot slave server, he lose label on HDD with remote mirror partitions.I have to install all patches that I find but it is not help me.Thanks.

any one has veritas volume manager for unix systems? can you make me a copy? i'll pay you some money too? i need it for a practice only?my email address is : bouadie2005@yahoo.comthanks.

Hi all,I have one 3510 and two servers. Each have one dual FC card. The servers were connected to the 3510 in DAS model.Can I use the Traffic Manager for the multipathing, load-balancing in this situation ? If yes, where can I get the document ? How to connect the cable ?Thanks in ...

I am having an A1000 attached to E420R Server. When the A/C is goes off, I am getting the following error messages. Can any one help me out to find out the problem ?Regareds,S.Packiarajan

Good morning, folks.I have a V480 with three A1000's attached. I have set up two of the A1000's for RAID 5 and plan to set up the other for a few mirrored filesystems. I have used Raid Manager 6.221 to set up the necessary LUNS and the disks all appear when running format. The problem I have ...

How do you find the WWN for a Sun/Qlogic HBA?Thanks,

hello all,i want to connect two hosts to a A3500 contreller with 5 D1000 array connected to it. i found in the rm 6.22.1 release notes and in the Sun Storedge A3500 hardware config guide that this is possible but clustering software is required. however i do not need the clustering ...

I got 3 pairs of T3's attached to the SF 3800. I am planning to disconnect all the T3's perminentlyfrom that host. What procedure do i need to follow.Thanks.

I'have purchased SotrEdge D1000 for 220r Enterprise server. I want to know the options through which I can add this to my system for optimized use. Do I need any third party software or need to purchase any software from Sun to use the system or any inbuilt tool would work for me?Any body have ...

I have a 0.5Tb Lacie Big Disc and a SunBlade 1500 workstation running Solaris 10 (and fully patched with recommended and security patches). The disc is said to be Solaris Ready.After doing some RTFM, I managed to get the disc working happily when plugged into one of the SunBlade's USB ports. ...

I have disk in a T3 that is now displaying as substituted in the STATE column but is in a ready STATUS. Is the disk bad?Thanks

Hi,I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I am asked to research different methods of configuring a system for running Oracle RAC. We have previously used two Sun v20z servers and a shared SE 3310 for this. But now we want to use two storage arrays, for complete redundancy. ...

Hello Experts!We're in the process of trying to connect a newly-configured Ultra 80 (Sol 10-Jan 2006) - machine 'B' - to our ancient (pre-cambrian, in fact) SPARC Storage Array. We've installed a JNI FCI-1063 card.The NVRAM monitor reports device:/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1f" ...

Current config 5x73GB RAID5 + 1 Global Spare, this is the only volume in the array.We intend to add 2x73GB and expand the current RAID5 volume.I understand the 'how to' but I would like to know if anyone has accidentally destroyed the volume (or data on it) by expanding it, or if there are ...

Can someone please help me to identify a peice of hardware. On The front it says Digital Data Storage, there is the number 3 as well and underneath it says model # 611. I know its a type of storage device but i cant find any documentation. If someone could help i would be very gratefulMany ...

I have an A1000 with 6 X 36GB drives installed. 1 hot spareand 5 in LUN0. These are mounted as a large ~130GB filesystem. I would like to fully populate the A1000 with 6additional drives and increase the existing filesystem/LUNwithout having to restore the data. Simply plug the drivesin, add ...