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Vcs Appnote A3x00
Vcs Appnote A3x00
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Introduction
VCS operates with the Sun StorEdge A3000 and A3500 (A3x00) family of disk arrays and RAID Manager 6.22.VCS supports the StorEdge A3x00 in a dual-bus conguration.This document provides instructions for installing and conguring the StorEdge A3x00 with VCS.
Hardware Requirements
x x x x x x
One or more (20 maximum) StorEdge A3x00 disk arrays. A3000: Two Sun Ultra E450, Ultra E3000, Ultra E4000, Ultra E5000, Ultra E6000, or Ultra E10000 servers. A3500: Two Sun Enterprise 2, Ultra E250, Ultra E450, Ultra E3000/E3500, Ultra E4000/E4500, Ultra E5000/E5500, Ultra E6000/E6500 or Ultra E10000 servers. Four UDWIS SBus cards for each StorEdge A3x00. PCI: Two Dual-Channel Ultra SCSI Host Adapters for each StorEdge A3x00. Four differential SCSI cables for each StorEdge A3x00.
Software Requirements
x x x
Solaris 2.6, 2.7, or 2.8. VCS 2.0 or later. RAID Manager 6.22, revision 01.14 or later.
Required Patches
Required Patches
The following required patches are currently included with the RAID Manager 6.22 media:
x x
Solaris 2.6: 105181-15, 105357-04, 105580-13, 105797-06, 106226-01, 107280-03, 105356-09, 105375-15, 105600-07, 106125-07, 106655-02 Solaris 7: 106541-05, 107292-02, 107469-01, 107473-01, 106552-03, 107458-02, 107472-01, 107474-01
4. Connect the array to the UDWIS adapters located on each VCS server. Connect one adapter from each host to Controller A, and one to Controller B, as shown in the gure below.
UDWIS
UDWIS
c1 c1
c2
Controller A
Controller B
UDWIS
UDWIS
c1
c2
ServerA
StorEdge A3x00
2. Install the RAID Manager 6.22 software packages (listed below) as described in the RAID Manager documentation: SUNWosavcs SUNWosar SUNWoasu SUNWosamn
3. From one of the servers, use RAID Manager (rm6) Maintenance&Tuning->Options-> Firmware Level to upgrade rmware on all A3x00 controllers, to level 03.01.02 or greater. 4. Reboot each system. On each system, type the following command:
# shutdown -y -i6 -g0
The output at the end of the boot process conrms proper installation. Output resembles:
The NVSRAM settings of controller c1t5d0s0(1T63250533) are correct The NVSRAM settings of controller c2t4d4s0(1T63250546) are correct
5. Verify that the A3x00 is installed and operating. On each server, type the following two commands: a. # lad Output resembles:
c1t5d0s0 1T62549100 LUNS: 0 c2t4d1s0 1T63852894 LUNS:
Conguring VCS
LUNs that are created on the A3x00 can be used to create diskgroups and volumes with VERITAS Volume Manager. Congure A3x00 LUNs as Disk resources, or DiskGroup resources if you use Volume Manager.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
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Only one controller appears after a reboot. Check the controllers activity lights on the front of the A3x00.
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An amber light indicates a failed controller. To determine or change the state of an A3x00 controller, use rm6 Recovery->Options->Manual Recovery->Controller Pairs. If this is unsuccessful, replace the controller.
Perform the following steps at the command line, or use rm6: 1. Determine if both controllers are active by typing:
# rdacutil -i command
To restore the controller, use rm6 Recovery->Recovery Guru. If this is unsuccessful, replace the controller.
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Excessive RAID console messages and SCSI warnings. The A3x00 disk array monitor daemon (arraymon) passes some event log messages to syslog that also appear on the console. These messages do not indicate problems and resemble the following example:
Jun 21 12:40:27 beta raid: AEN event Host=beta Ctrl=1T63250546 Dev=c1t4d0s0 Jun 21 12:40:27 beta raid: AEN event Host=beta Ctrl=1T63250546 Dev=c1t4d0s0 Jun 21 12:40:27 beta raid: ASC=95 ASCQ=02 FRU=00 LUN=00 LUN Stat=00 Jun 21 12:40:27 beta raid: ASC=95 ASCQ=02 FRU=00 LUN=00 LUN Stat=00 Jun 21 12:40:27 beta raid: Sense=70000600000000980000000095020000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000818000000000000000000000000000F0531 54363332353035343620202020202002041D00000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000
When A3x00 controllers fail, Solaris issues a series of SCSI warning messages. This is normal behavior during failure of SCSI controllers; disk operation by the A3x00 should continue as expected.
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