Product guide
Table Of Contents
- Installing and Configuring the HBA and Driver
- Configuring a Boot Device on the EMC Storage Array
EMC Fibre Channel with QLogic Host Bus Adapters in the Solaris Environment
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Preface ............................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 1 Installing and Configuring the HBA and Driver
Planning zoning and connections in a fabric environment........ 10
Installing the HBA............................................................................ 10
Installing the HBA driver................................................................ 11
Obtaining the latest driver ........................................................11
Installing the driver....................................................................12
Driver-related issues..................................................................18
Configuring host files....................................................................... 19
QLogic persistent binding implementation............................19
Editing /kernel/drv/qla2x00.conf ..........................................20
Editing /kernel/drv/sd.conf....................................................25
Editing driver configuration parameters using the
SANblade Control FX utility.....................................................27
Editing /etc/system...................................................................30
Dynamically configured Targets/LUNs and driver
parameters...................................................................................30
Partitioning and labeling devices................................................... 32
Updating the HBA FCode............................................................... 33
Using the qla2x00flash utility...................................................35
Using the SANblade Control FX utility...................................36
Symmetrix/Fabric case study......................................................... 38
Configuration file entries...........................................................40
Tips for retrieving entries in qla2200.conf ..............................42
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