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Solaris

How to Scan FC LUNS and SCSI Disks ?

Solaris 10

Applications and Databases storage requirement on the servers will be keep on increase day by day. According to that, Unix

admin need to increase filesystem space on Unix servers periodically. Assigning big SAN space to filesystem also not possible

since storage cost involved on that. So its a routine work for Unix admin and need to follow best practice for scanning the

storage and adding in to the filesystem. In Solaris, we can able to scan the LUNS without rebooting the host. But in rare

circumstances, we may need to end up with server reboot to see newly assigned LUNS. Here we will see how to scan the local
disks and SAN LUNsin Solaris host.

ScanningFC/SANLUNSinSolaris
Before scanning LUNS, we see some useful commands which are related to Fibre Channel(FC).
1.List the connected HBAs.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e port |grep CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

2.Verify FC channel s are connected and configured.

Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev |grep fc-fabric
c2

fc-fabric

connected

configured

unknown

c4

fc-fabric

connected

configured

unknown

Unix@sol#

3.To find the HBAs World wide Node number (WWN),use fcinfo command,
Unix@sol# fcinfo hba-port |grep Port
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884bb48
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884bb49
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884b85c
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884b85d
Unix@sol#

4.You can also find the WWN form luxadm command, if HBA is already connected to FC switch.
Unix@sol# luxadm -e dump_map /dev/cfg/c4
Pos

Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN

29900

50080e8008cfb814 50080e8008cfb814 0x0

Node WWN

Type

27400

10000000c884b85c 20000000c884b85c 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host Bus Adapter)

(Disk device)

Unix@sol#

From the above output, the last line shows the HBA information.In the same you can find the other controller information as
well.
5.Zoning can beverifiedusing the below command.
Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev c2 c4

6.If you see any controller port WWN showingas unconfigured ,then you can initiate FC session using below mentioned
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command.
Unix@sol# cfgadm -c configure c2::50080e8008cfb814
Unix@sol# cfgadm -c configure c4::50080e8008cfb814

Lets see how we can re-scan the SAN/FC luns on solaris 10/11 hosts.
To scan new FC luns, Just execute the below commands.
Scanning FC/SAN LUNS
1

cfgadm -al

To scan FC luns

devfsadm -c disk

To make sure all the device files are created

tail /var/adm/messages

To see the new LUNs information

echo |format

To get the new LUNs information

ls -lrt /dev/rdsk |grep s2|tail

To get the new LUNs information

luxadm probe also used to scan FC luns but i am happy to use cfgadm.

If you still not able to see the new LUNS/DISK ,then you can try to reset the HBA as last option if you have multipath enabled.
(Do not try in critical servers unless you have confident on multipathing)
1.List the connected HBA.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e port |grep CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

2.Reset the HBA using forcelip option.

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e forcelip /devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl

Forcelip can be issued to the controller names as well.

Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev |grep fc-fabric
c2

fc-fabric

connected

configured

unknown

c4

fc-fabric

connected

configured

unknown

Unix@sol#
Unix@sol# luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c2

3. Verify the controller status using cfgadm -al.Make sure disks didn;t loose any SAN paths after the HBA reset. If everything
seems to be okay ,then isssue the forcelip to the another controller.

If still you are not able to see the new FC/SAN LUNS ,then reboot the server and try. Once you see the new lun, make sure
that multiple FC paths are enabled to that. Minimum two FC paths required for SAN disks.

luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c1txxxxxxd0s2 To verify the FC lun details and multipathing.

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Scanning Local SCSI disks in Solaris

1.List the currently available harddisks.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# echo |format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@3,0
4. c8t4d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@4,0
5. c8t5d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@5,0
6. c8t6d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@6,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#

2.Assume new SCSI harddisks are added to the server.

3.Scan the SCSI disks.

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# devfsadm -c disk
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# echo |format
Searching for disks...done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:

0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@3,0
4. c8t4d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@4,0
5. c8t5d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@5,0
6. c8t6d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@6,0
7. c8t8d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@8,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#

4.Still if you are not able to see the new disks,use cfgadm command and then devfsadm.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id

Type

Receptacle

Occupant

Condition

c8

scsi-bus

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t0d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t1d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t2d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t3d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

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c8::dsk/c8t4d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t5d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t6d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

c8::dsk/c8t8d0

disk

connected

configured

unknown

cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported: Error: hotplug service is pr

ble the service. See

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# devfsadm -c disk
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#

If you are using veritas volume manager, then you can verify the mutipathing using vxdmp commands.
Check out that article which provides the step by step method to SCAN FC luns on Redhat Linux.

Hope this post is informative for you .

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