Installing and Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 6320 System
This chapter contains the procedures about how to install, configure, and maintain a Sun StorEdge™ 6320 system. These procedures are specific to a Sun™ Cluster environment.
This chapter contains the following procedures.
The storage system configuration utilities can be run from a web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command-line interface, Sun StorEdge Configuration Service (sccs). This chapter describes the web-based GUI. For detailed information about storage system architecture, features, and configuration utilities, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Reference and Service Manual and the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide.
Installing Storage Systems
This section contains the procedure for an initial installation of a storage system in a new Sun Cluster configuration. If you are adding a storage system to an existing cluster, use the procedure in How to Add a Storage System.
You can install your storage system in several different configurations. Evaluate your needs. Determine which configuration is best for your situation. See the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide, "Installing a 2x2 Configuration" in Sun Cluster 3.x With Sun StorEdge 6120 Array Manual, and "Installing a 2x4 Configuration" in Sun Cluster 3.x With Sun StorEdge 6120 Array Manual.
How to Install Storage Systems
Use this procedure to install a storage system before you install the Solaris operating environment and Sun Cluster software on your nodes. To add a storage system to an existing cluster, use the procedure in How to Add a Storage System.
If necessary, install host adapters in the nodes to be connected to the storage system.
For the procedure about how to install host adapters, see the documentation that shipped with your host adapters and nodes.
(6320SL storage system ONLY) Install the Fibre Channel (FC) switch for the storage system if you do not have a switch installed.
Note - In a 6320SL storage system, the customer provides the switch.
For the procedure about how to install an FC switch, see the documentation that shipped with your FC switch hardware.
Unpack, place, and level the storage system.
For instructions, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide.
Install the system power cord and the system grounding strap.
For instructions, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide.
(6320SL storage system ONLY) Connect the storage arrays to the FC switches by using fiber-optic cables.
Caution - Do not connect the switch's Ethernet port to the storage system's
private LAN.For the procedure about how to cable the storage system, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide.
Power on the storage system and the nodes.
For instructions about how to power on the storage system, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide. For instructions about how to power on a node, see the documentation that shipped with your node hardware.
Configure the service processor.
For more information, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Installation Guide.
Create a volume.
For the procedure about how to create a volume, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Reference and Service Manual.
(Optional) Specify initiator groups for the volume.
For the procedure about how to specify initiator groups, see the Sun StorEdge 6320 System Reference and Service Manual.
If necessary, reconfigure the storage system's FC switches to ensure that all nodes can access each storage array.
The following configurations might prevent some nodes from accessing each storage array in the cluster.
Zone configuration
Multiple clusters that use same switch
Unconfigured ports or misconfigured ports
On all nodes, install the Solaris operating environment. Apply the required Solaris patches for Sun Cluster software and storage array support.
For the procedure about how to install the Solaris operating environment, see your Solaris documentation.
See the Sun Cluster release notes documentation for information about accessing Sun's Info Docs on http://sunsolve.sun.com. The Info Docs list information about required patches and firmware that are available for download. For the procedure about how to apply host adapter firmware, see the firmware patch README file.
Install all required patches or software for Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software support on all nodes.
For the procedure on how to install the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software, see the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Installation and Configuration Guide at http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/. For a list of required patches for Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software, see the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Software Release Notes on http://www.sun.com/storage/san.
Edit the /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf file to activate the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software (STMS) functionality. Set the mpxio-disable parameter to no.
mpxio-disable="no"
Perform a reconfiguration boot on all nodes to create the new Solaris device files and links.
Configure the STMS paths.
cfgadm -c configure controllerinstance
For the procedure about how to configure STMS paths, see the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Installation and Configuration Guide.
Update the Solaris device files and links.
# devfsadm
Note - You can wait for the devfsadm daemon to automatically update the Solaris device files and links, or you can run the devfsadm command to immediately update the Solaris device files and links.
Confirm that all storage arrays that you installed are visible to all nodes.
# luxadm probe