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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CHAPTER
2
Switch Activation
This chapter contains the procedures for bringing the new Sun StorEdge SAN 4.0
Release software onto the network. For more details about the switch, refer to the
documentation delivered with your switch.
Overall Installation Order
Use this manual, the Sun StorEdge SAN 4.0 Release Configuration Guide, and the
documentation that came with your switch.
1. Install the Solaris patch cluster on the host.
2. Install the SAN 4.0 packages and patches (including HBA drivers).
3. Install the HBAs, connect the hosts, switches and storage devices
4. Assign IP address to the switch ethernet ports.
5. Start the GUI for your switch.
6. Verify and load the switch firmware.
7. Verify and set the domain ID
8. Configure the switch ports.
9. Configure and activate zonesets and zones.
10. Configure the fabric devices
11. Enable multipathing (optional)
12. Mount the filesystems.