Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Using UNIX Commands
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts
- Related Documentation
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Sun Welcomes Your Comments
- New Features
- Features, Benefits, and Products
- SAN 4.0 Device Names
- On-Demand Node Creation
- Fabric Connection of Hosts
- Cascading of Switches
- Higher Realized Bandwidth
- Support of Multiple Protocols
- Support for More, Heterogeneous Storage Devices
- Support for New Hardware and Software
- Software and Hardware Upgrade
- Building Blocks for More Complex Topologies
- Overall Installation Order
- Configuring the Switch Ethernet Port
- Installing SAN Software for the First Time
- Upgrading Existing SAN Software
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Introduction
This guide provides instructions for installing Sun StorEdge SAN 4.0 Release
software components. Hardware components include Fibre Channel switches, Fibre
Channel host adapters, and storage devices and enclosures. The software
components include drivers bundled with the operating system, firmware for the
switches, management tools for the switches and storage devices, volume managers,
if needed, and other administration tools.
Before installing or configuring any SAN components, you need to plan how your
site will use the SAN and identify your goals in implementing the SAN. There are
numerous options at various steps in the installation and configuration process, and
understanding the purpose of the SAN clarifies appropriate decisions for your site.
Hardware activation of new switches is covered in this guide. Hardware installation
of switches, host adapters and storage devices and enclosures is described in the
documentation delivered with those products.
This guide also describes software installation, starting from an installation or
upgrade of Solaris, and including firmware upgrades for any SAN component
required.
New Features
■ 2 Gb Switches
■ 2 Gb Host Bus Adapters
■ Heterogeneous Switches
■ Large Configuration Support