Configuring LUNs for use with SDD

If you are using the subsystem device driver (SDD) for multipathing support on a Sun SPARC host, you must use these instructions to configure the LUNs.

The following instructions are based on the SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528–16 version. Use a bash shell as root to correctly configure your path.

You can use the following steps for all HBAs that are used with SDD:

  1. Delete the following files:
    • /etc/vpathsave.cfg
    • /etc/vpath.cfg
  2. Use the format command to check for disks.
    1. If you see disks, proceed to the next step.
    2. If you do not see disks, verify the configuration of your HBAs and clustering configuration and try again.
    3. If you still do not see disks, reboot the machine by issuing a reboot -- -rv command.
    Note: You may see a "mode sense error" listed for each disk when running format for the first time. This is normal, and will not occur once the disks have been labeled.
  3. Configure SDD by issuing the cfgvpath -c command.
  4. Issue the devfsadm -C -v command to scan for disks.
  5. After the devfsadm command completes, issue the vpathmkdev command to create vpaths for the new disks.
  6. Issue the format command and browse the returned list for your vpaths.
  7. The devices are now accessible from /dev/dsk/vpath#.
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