Installation guide

AIX - Installation Instructions-
8 Fourth Edition 96107
StorageTek Proprietary
Note: SANtricity Storage Manager version 9.1 is available, but it does not
provide a failover option for AIX. It will be avaialble once testing is
complete.
Controller Firmware version (example):
Controller NVSRAM version (example):
4. Build the RAID volume groups, volumes (LUNs), mappings for host
groups, hosts, host ports, and volume mappings into host groups and LUN
numbers. When performing these procedures, the following issues apply.
• When creating the volumes, make a table of what controller (preferred
path) is assigned to each volume (LUN number) for later reference
when you set up the mappings for a volume to a host port. It is
CRITICAL that the administration matches the physical connectivity
between the fcs# and the controller that it is connected to, otherwise
the host may not see the LUNs.
• When setting the host type field:
- Select host type AIX for non-failover version (presents LUNs down
owning controller path only).
- Select host type AIX_FO for failover version (presents LUNs down
both paths).
- Select the default host type if no partitioning installed.
5. An architecture decision concerning the access volume/UTM LUN (LUN
31 by default) for each host group accessed by an AIX host needs to be
made.
The issues are:
• Is there an IBM storage array connected in the architecture? If there is,
the access volume must not be mapped, thereby not visible to the
host. If it is visible, it will corrupt the access to the IBM array as well as
the StorageTek array.
• If SMagent is not going to be used to do inband storage management
(i.e. will only use TCP/IP connection for storage management
operations), then the access volume must not be mapped, thereby not
visible to the host. If it is visible, it may corrupt the access to the
StorageTek array depending on the next bullet item.
• Be aware that the access volume/UTM LUN cannot be used if the AIX
packages devices.fcp.disk.array.* are installed to support
IBM storage arrays. If these software packages are installed (by
default they are installed and may be reinstalled by software patches)
BC84
FW_05460700_05400400.dlp or higher
BC84 N4884-5460855-002.dlp or higher