You can run into an issue with EMC storage on AIX systems using MPIO (No Powerpath) for your boot disks: After installing the ODM_DEFINITONS of EMC Symmetrix on your client system, the system won’t boot any more and will hang with LED 554 (unable to find boot disk). The boot hang (LED 554) is not …
Set Control Station date and time You must log in as root to perform this operation. To set the date and time for a Control Station, use this command syntax: # date -s “<hh:mm mm/dd/yy>” where: <hh:mm mm/dd/yy> = time and date format Example: To set the date and time to 5:40 P.M. on August …
1. Log in to the Control Station as root. 2. Check the status of the NTP daemon by typing: # ps -ef |grep ntpd Output: ntp 30818 1 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid 3. Display information about the ntpd status by typing: # /sbin/service ntpd status Output: ntpd is stopped 4. …
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Steps: 1. Log in to the Control Station as root. 2. To verify the current environment, type: # date Output: Wed Aug 8 16:22:54 IST 2012 3. Display information about the current time zone of the Control Station by typing: # ls -la /etc/localtime Output: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 7 22:48 /etc/localtime -> …
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You can update the time zone information on the Data Mover by using simple and decipherable strings that correspond to the time zones available in the Control Station. You can also update the daylight savings time on the Data Mover for the specified time zone. Set Data Mover or blade time zone manually To set …
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Login using nasadmin and verify the system’s health, type: $ /nas/bin/nas_checkup The checkup command reports back on the state of the Control Station, Data Movers, and storage system. Note: This health check ensures that there are no major errors in the system that would prevent the system from being turned on during the power up …
Login using nasadmin user. Verify that the blades booted successfully. Type: # /nasmcd/sbin/getreason Sample output for systems with 2 blades: [nasadmin@VNXCS01 ~]$ /nasmcd/sbin/getreason 10 – slot_0 primary control station 11 – slot_1 secondary control station 5 – slot_2 contacted 5 – slot_3 contacted
This web page is a quick guide on what to install and how to check that EMC SAN is attached and working Solaris Installing ========================================================== Install Emulex driver/firmware, san packages (SANinfo, HBAinfo, lputil), EMC powerpath Use lputil to update firmware Use lputil to disable boot bios Update /kernel/drv/lpfc.conf Update /kernel/drv/sd.conf Reboot Install ECC agent …
This document will be using the EMC symmetrix configuration. There are a number of EMC Symmetrix configurations but they all use the same architecture as detailed below. Front End Director Ports (SA-16b:1) Front End Director (SA-16b) Cache Back End Director (DA-02b) Back End Director Ports (DA-02b:c) Disk Devices Front End Director A channel director (front …
Requirements: PowerPath, at least version 5.1 SP1 (I would suggest at least 5.3 if running Windows 2003/2008) PowerPath Migration Enabler key (host-copy) Supported storage array for target and destination Details: To explain this migration technique a little more, PPME is a block level migration. It migrates the blocks on the LUN using the host to …
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