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Sun Microsystems StorEdge 3900 Series Manual

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Part No: 817–0179–15
January 2006, Revision A

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  • Page 1 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual For Solaris OS Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. Part No: 817–0179–15 January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 2 Sun, Sun Microsystems, le logo Sun, docs.sun.com, AnswerBook, AnswerBook2, et Solaris sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques déposées, de Sun Microsystems, Inc. aux Etats-Unis et dans d’autres pays. Toutes les marques SPARC sont utilisées sous licence et sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques déposées de SPARC International, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Preface Restrictions and Requirements Restrictions Requirements Installing and Configuring a Sun StorEdge 3900 or 6900 Series System Installing Storage Systems How to Install Storage Systems in a New Cluster M Install and Cable the Hardware M Install the Solaris Operating System and Configure Multipathing M How to Add a Storage System to an Existing Cluster Configuring Storage Systems M How to Create a Logical Volume...
  • Page 4 M How to Replace a Host Adapter Sun StorEdge 3900 and 6900 Series Storage System Cabling Diagrams Installation Diagrams Index Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 5: Preface

    Preface The Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual provides procedures specific to Sun StorEdge™ 3900 or 6900 storage devices that are placed in a Sun™ Cluster environment. ® Use this manual with any version of Sun Cluster 3.0 and 3.1 software on SPARC based clusters and any supported version of Sun Cluster 3.1 software on x86 based...
  • Page 6 Extended support for the SE 6920 array to x86 based clusters. Added information in support of single, dual-port HBA configurations. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 7 Related Documentation The following books provide conceptual information or procedures to administer hardware and applications. If you plan to use this documentation in a hardcopy format, ensure that you have these books available for your reference. The following Sun Cluster books support the Sun Cluster 3.1, 2004, and 2005 releases. If you are maintaining a different version of Sun Cluster software, refer to the appropriate documentation.
  • Page 8 Online documentation for the Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS) Other software documentation that you received with your system Solaris Operating System man pages Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 9 Getting Help If you have problems installing or using Sun Cluster, contact your service provider and provide the following information. Your name and email address (if available) Your company name, address, and phone number The model number and serial number of your systems The release number of the operating environment (for example, Solaris 8) The release number of Sun Cluster (for example, Sun Cluster 3.0) Use the following commands to gather information about your system for your...
  • Page 10 The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 11 Product Training Sun Microsystems offers training in many Sun technologies through a variety of instructor-led courses and self-paced courses. For information about the training courses that Sun offers and to enroll in a class, visit Sun Microsystems Training at http://training.sun.com/.
  • Page 12 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 13: Restrictions And Requirements

    CHAPTER Restrictions and Requirements This chapter includes only restrictions and requirements that have a direct impact on the procedures in this book. For general support information, contact your Sun service provider. Restrictions Storage devices that do not support LUN masking cannot reside in the same fabric zone as the Sun StorEdge™...
  • Page 14 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 15: Installing And Configuring A Sun Storedge 3900 Or 6900 Series System

    CHAPTER Installing and Configuring a Sun StorEdge 3900 or 6900 Series System This chapter contains the procedures about how to install and configure Sun StorEdge™ 3900 and 6900 series systems in a Sun Cluster environment. It contains the following major sections: “Installing Storage Systems”...

  • Page 16: How To Install Storage Systems In A New Cluster

    For instructions about how to power on the storage system, see your storage system installation documentation. 6. Configure the service processor. For more information, see your storage system installation documentation. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 17: M Install The Solaris Operating System And Configure Multipathing

    Install the Solaris Operating System and Configure Multipathing 1. On all nodes, install the Solaris operating system and apply the required Solaris Steps patches for Sun Cluster software and storage array support. For the procedure about how to install the Solaris operating environment, see “How to Install Solaris Software”...

  • Page 18: Configuring Storage Systems

    “How to Create a Logical Volume” on page 19 Remove a logical volume. “How to Remove a Logical Volume” on page 20 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 19: M How To Create A Logical Volume

    How to Create a Logical Volume Use this procedure to create a logical volume from unassigned storage capacity. Sun storage documentation uses the following terms: Note – Logical volume Logical device Logical unit number (LUN) This manual uses logical volume to refer to all such logical constructs. This procedure relies on the following prerequisites and assumptions.

  • Page 20: M How To Remove A Logical Volume

    Logical volume Logical device Logical unit number (LUN) This manual uses logical volume to refer to all such logical constructs. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 21 This procedure relies on the following prerequisites and assumptions. Before You Begin All nodes are booted in cluster mode and attached to the storage device. The logical volume and the path between the nodes and the storage device are both operational. Steps 1.
  • Page 22 Step 13. (Optional) Return the resource groups and device groups that you identified in Step 8 to all cluster nodes. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 23: Maintaining A Sun Storedge 3900 Or 6900 Series System

    CHAPTER Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 3900 or 6900 Series System This chapter contains the procedures about how to maintain Sun StorEdge 3900 and 6900 series systems in a Sun Cluster environment. It contains the following procedures: “How to Remove a Storage System” on page 26 “SPARC: How to Replace a Virtualization Engine (Sun StorEdge 6910 or Sun StorEdge 6960 Storage System Only)”...
  • Page 24 Replace a GBIC or an SFP on an FC switch, connecting “Replacing a Node-to-Switch to a node. Component” on page 27 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 25: Frus That Do Not Require Sun Cluster Maintenance Procedures

    Maintenance Procedures This section contains lists of administrative tasks that require no cluster-specific procedures. SPARC: FRUs for the Sun StorEdge 3900 Series, StorEdge 6910, and StorEdge 6960 Systems SPARC: See the Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual for the following procedures.

  • Page 26: M How To Remove A Storage System

    2. Remove references to the volumes that reside on the storage system that you are removing. For more information, see your Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager or VERITAS Volume Manager documentation. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 27: Msparc: How To Replace A Virtualization Engine (Sun Storedge 6910 Or Sun Storedge 6960 Storage System Only)

    3. Disconnect the cables that connected Node N to the FC switches in your storage system. 4. On all nodes, remove the obsolete Solaris links and device IDs. # devfsadm -C # scdidadm -C 5. Repeat Step 3 through Step 4 for each node that is connected to the storage system.

  • Page 28: M How To Replace A Node-To-Switch Component In A Cluster That Uses Multipathing

    How to Replace a Node-to-Switch Component in a Cluster Without Multipathing 1. Check if the physical data path failed. Steps If no, proceed to Step If yes: Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 29: How To Upgrade Storage Array Firmware When Using Mirroring

    a. Replace the component. Refer to your hardware documentation for any component-specific instructions. b. Fix the volume manager error that was caused by the failed data path. c. (Optional) If necessary, return resource groups and device groups to this node. You have completed this procedure.

  • Page 30: I "How To Upgrade Storage Array Firmware When Not Using Mirroring" On Page

    For a URL to this storage documentation, see “Related Documentation” on page 3. If you have not already done so, reset the storage arrays. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

  • Page 31: How To Replace A Disk Drive

    For the procedure about how to reset a storage array, see the Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual. For a URL to this storage documentation, see “Related Documentation” on page 4. Boot all nodes back into the cluster. For more information on booting nodes, see your Sun Cluster system administration documentation.

  • Page 32: How To Replace A Host Adapter

    For the full procedure about how to shut down and power off a node, see your Sun Cluster system administration documentation. 4. Power off Node A. Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 33 5. Replace the failed host adapter. For the procedure about how to remove and add host adapters, see the documentation that shipped with your nodes. 6. Do you need to upgrade the node’s host adapter firmware? If yes, boot Node A into noncluster mode. Proceed to Step For more information about how to boot nodes, see your Sun Cluster system administration documentation.
  • Page 34 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 35 Storage System Cabling Diagrams The diagrams in this chapter provide examples of supported cabling configurations. Refer to the storage system documentation for additional configurations. Installation Diagrams SPARC: Figure 4–1 illustrates one way of installing a Sun StorEdge 3900 series storage system.
  • Page 36 SPARC: Installing a Sun StorEdge 3900 Series Storage System FIGURE 4–1 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 37 You can install your Sun StorEdge 6920 storage system in several different configurations. Figure 4–2 Figure 4–3 are two examples. Node A Node B PWR SEQUENCER SP LAN SP LAN USER SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERIAL CONSOLE PHONE OUT FRONT PROCESSOR PANEL OUT REAR EXP ENET 1...
  • Page 38 OUT FRONT PANEL OUT REAR EXP ENET 1 NPORT EXP ENET 2 NPORT Sun StorEdge 6920 System Switched Configuration FIGURE 4–3 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 39 Chapter 4 • Sun StorEdge 3900 and 6900 Series Storage System Cabling Diagrams...
  • Page 40 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 41 Index disk drives adding, 26 accessory trays, replacing, 26 removing, 26 adding replacing, 31-32 See also installing DSPs disk drives, 26 replacing, 26 nodes, 25 replacing cards, 26 storage systems, 17-18 dual-controller configurations arrays, See storage arrays, storage systems extending, 26 removing, 26 batteries, replacing, 26 Ethernet cables...
  • Page 42 SE 6920 systems, 13 replacing service processor panels, 26 restrictions, SE 6920 systems, 13 replacing USB relay panels, 26 PCUs, See power units Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...
  • Page 43 SE 3900 systems, FRUs, 25-26 virtualization engines SE 6910 systems, FRUs, 25-26 removing, 26 SE 6920 systems replacing, 27 FRUs, 26 upgrading firmware, 26 requirements, 13 restrictions, 13 SE 6960 systems, FRUs, 25-26 service processor panels, replacing, 26 service processors replacing, 26 replacing accessory trays, 26 SFPs, replacing, 25...
  • Page 44 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 With Sun StorEdge 3900 Series or Sun StorEdge 6900 Series System Manual • January 2006, Revision A...

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