User`s guide

2 – System Overview

Installation Checklist

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2.3.4

Step 4: Install any RAID Filter Drivers

Some RAID subsystems (including some CLARiiON, EMC, and LSI subsystems)

provide redundancy by using the subsystem to provide the same LUNs through two

separate controllers in the subsystem. These controllers appear as unrelated target

devices to HBAs and miniport drivers. They are tied together in the driver stack

through a filter driver that understands the relationship between these target devices

and can move LUNs back and forth between controllers.

If you do not have any such drivers to install, skip to section 2.3.5. See your RAID

subsystem installation documentation or associated software documentation to

install and verify RAID filter drivers.

2.3.5

Step 5: Install and Run the SANblade Manager

SANblade Manager is a management utility to view, manage, and diagnose QLogic

HBAs. SANblade Manager also configures, HBAs, target devices on HBAs, and

LUNs on target devices. To use target masking, LUN masking, device hot

replacement, or QLdirect failover features of SANblade Manager, you must install

SANblade Manager. See section 5 for complete installation instructions.

If you do not use any of these features, you can use the miniport driver without

configuring it with SANblade Manager. In this case, skip to section 2.3.6.

SANblade Manager runs as a client/server application, with the client application

running on a hardware platform that supports Java and agents running on each

system that has QLogic HBAs. If you are using SANblade Manager on a host system

where HBAs are installed, install the SANblade Manager application (GUI) and

SANblade Manager agent on the local host.

NOTE: In SANblade Manager, remote procedure calls (RPCs) are used. In

Windows, the RPC service (ONC/RPC Portmapper) required by

SANblade Manager is installed automatically. In Linux, the appropriate

RPC libraries must be installed by the Linux distribution. See the Linux

distribution documentation for information about installing RPC services

before installing SANblade Manager. In NetWare, tirpc.nlm and

associated files must be loaded for RPC support. These files are added

to the autoexec.ncf file automatically by SANblade Manager installation.

Verification When using SANblade Manager to configure any alternate paths to

devices, these paths are treated as unconfigured paths until QLdirect

is installed.