Re: 6120 (T4) with Solaris 8 and VxVM 3.2: DMP not working

From: Paul Coray (paul.coray_at_spamblock.unibas.ch)
Date: 09/30/04


Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:01:05 +0200

Sami Ketola schrieb:
> Paul Coray <paul.coray@spamblock.unibas.ch> wrote:
>
>>I have:
>>
>>V880, Solaris 8 2/02 u7, Kernelpatch 117350-06 (August 2004)
>>Veritas VxVM 3.2 with latest patch (3.2t_p5.3:14-Jan-2004).
>
>
> If I remember correctly you need VxVM 3.5 or 4.0 and VxVM array
> support library for 6120 (VxVM 4.0 might already have this builtin)
> to enable VxDMP. ASL is freely available at Sun website.
>
> Or you can always use MPXIO with VxVM 3.2.

Thanks, I just found the support library (VRTSt4 - Array Support Library
for Sun StorEdge 6120/6320) at
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/262620.htm
and now everything looks good. This library works with both VxVM 3.2 and
3.5. So no need for upgrading my 3.2 installation :-)

>
>
>
>
>>I applied the latest firmware (3.1.2) to the 6120 RAID and cabled the
>
>
> latest is 3.1.4.
>
Correct. Actually I have 3.1.4. Just remembered wrongly ;-)

Cheers
Paul



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