Product guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Arbitrated Loop Configurations
- Fabric Configurations
- UnixWare 7 Fabric Environment
- Setup Checklist
- Verifying Symmetrix Configuration
- Verifying and Updating HBA BIOS-Level Configurations
- Scanning for the Symmetrix on an HBA BIOS Level
- Install the HBA Driver
- Changing System Configuration File Settings
- UnixWare 7 Conventions and Persistent Binding Information
- Beware of Ghost Names
- Configuring and Enabling Persistent Binding
- Troubleshooting
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Symmetrix Fibre Channel with Qlogic HBAs on UnixWare 7
Fabric Configurations
Setting the HBA BIOS
Variables
Setup Checklist step 4b
This procedure assumes that you are already in Fast!Util. If you are not, boot
the host, and as soon as the QLA2200F banner (see Figure 2) appears, press
ALT-Q to display the Fast!Util Options menu.
1. From the Fast!Util Options menu, select Configuration Settings.
2. On the Configuration Settings menu, select Restore Default
Va lu es .
3. On the Configuration Settings menu, select Advanced Adapter
Settings.
4. Change the setting for Execution Throttle to 20.
5. Change the setting for Max Luns to 256. (The factory setting is 8,
but this must be changed to utilize all 256 LUNs.)
Setting Max Luns to its maximum value will cause the maximum
number of targets to be reserved for each Symmetrix port, enabling
future expansion.
6. Press ESC to return to the Configuration Settings menu.
7. On the Configuration Settings menu, select Extended Firmware
Settings.
8. Change the setting for Connection Option to 1(FC-SW only).
9. Press
ESC and save all changes.
10. Use the Fibre Disk utility to verify the disk media, as described
under Scanning for the Symmetrix on an HBA BIOS Level on
page 10.
11. Reboot the host.