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
20 Sun StorEdge SAN 4.0 Release Installation Guide • July 2002
■ Solstice DiskSuite
Solstice DiskSuite is an unbundled software product that is delivered with the
Solaris software. Solstice DiskSuite provides host-based storage management, such
as mirroring and striping of disks, which provides greater reliability and volume
size. Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 also implements RAID 5.
■ VERITAS Volume Manager
VERITAS Volume Manager is a separately installed software product that provides
host-based storage management, such a disk labeling, mirroring, striping, and
RAID 5.
■ cfgadm plugin for Fabric on-demand node creation
This component is delivered with the Solaris software upgrades for the FC switch
product. It is used to discover SAN-attached devices, in addition to creating and
deleting nodes for those devices. These features are implemented through the
cfgadm framework. See the cfgadm_fp(1M) man page for additional information.
■ SANbox Manager
The SANbox Manager is software supplied with the Sun switch. This software
provides management capabilities, such as maintaining zones, setting port
attributes, and setting up cascades switches.
Downloading Patches and Packages
You can download the required software components from the web sites listed in
TABLE A-1.
Note – You can also get all the patches for your configuration from the SunSolve
web site. If you use PatchPro 2.0.1 to generate a patch list, a text file,
patchpro_dnld_yyyy.mm.dd@hh:mm:ss:zzz.txt, with the installation order is
included. Follow the installation order defined in TABLE A-2.
TABLE A-1 Software Download Web Sites
Software Downloading Web Site
Packages http://www.sun.com/software/download
patches http://sunsolve.sun.com