Hardware

Hello,

I have an irritating problem with a V240 with 2 x (Qlogic 2200F) Sun-branded X6799A single-port 1gbit FC HBA's, a McData Sphereon fabric switch, and a Hitachi HDS 9570V SAN-fabric disk array.

At present the switch sees the WWN of the HBA, and the HDS can see the HBA through the switch.

I'm not certain but I am sure the X6799A is fabric-capable (certainly Brocase seems to certify it - http://www.brocade.com/products/pdf/CompatibilityMatrix-10-24-2003.pdf).

However the problem is I can't see the volumes being presented from the Hitachi, whether through format, after a few /reconfigure/devfsadm reboots, swearing or praying.

The 240V is patched with the September general release patch cluster for Solaris 8 02/04) together with, at single-user, in the right order;

SUNWsan

111412-15 (traffic manager etc)
111095-17 (fctl fp)
111096-10 (fcip ulp fiber-channel)
111097-16 (qlc isp2200 etc)
(then a reboot)
111413-14 (luxdiag, luxadm libg_fc)
111853-03 (isp2200a pci x6799a etc)

After the firmware update through 111853-03 (the cards were at revision 1.13 before);

# luxadm fcode_download -p

Found Path to 2 FC100/P, ISP2200, ISP23xx Devices

Opening Device: /devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl
Detected FCode Version: ISP2200 Host Adapter Driver: 1.14.09 03/08/04

Opening Device: /devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl
Detected FCode Version: ISP2200 Host Adapter Driver: 1.14.09 03/08/04
Complete

However my knowledge establishing fabric SAN ends there.

I have a suspicion that /kernel/drv/sc.conf or /kernel/drv/qlc.conf should be configured, but over and above these two (I can't really request a lesson in SAN fabric) should I be looking in any other directions? In particular how can I ascertain how the HBA's are configured (point-to-point or looped?) and if necessary, how can the configuration be changed (if at all?) The Hitachi engineer reckons he has establised zoning correctly, but are there any security issues relating to the WWN and what volumes are presented?

The Hitachi is supposed to present just one volume (which should be LUN 0 for sd?)

thanks in anticipation

recl