To take advantage of the SAN boot feature with a QLogic
host bus adapter (HBA) on an Oracle SPARC host, you must configure
the HBA.
Before you configure the QLogic HBA, ensure that you complete
the following tasks:
- Configured the HBA for static port binding.
- Configured and mapped the volume that serves as the SAN
boot disk.
- Configured the LUNs for use with VERITAS Volume Manager with DMP.
- Mirrored the boot volume onto the discovered LUNs.
- Installed the correct level of FCode on your HBA. To find the
correct level, see the supported hardware list at the following websites:
To configure the QLogic HBA for SAN boot, use the following
steps:
- Change to the OpenBoot prompt.
For example, you might enter a command that is similar to the
following command:
shutdown -i0 -g0 -y
Note: An ok displays for the prompt when you are at the
OpenBoot prompt.
- Type setenv auto-boot? false.
This command specifies that the system will not reboot after
a power failure or after you use the reset command.
- Type setenv use-nvramrc? true to enable
script interpretation.
- Type reset-all to clear the system's registers.
- Type show-devs to identify the device
aliases and the associated paths of devices that are connected to
the system. Write down the device alias of the first QLogic HBA.
- Select the HBA device by typing "/devicestring" select-dev, where /devicestring is
the device alias string that you wrote down.
The following command is an example:
" /pci@1f,0/pci@1/QLGC,qla@4" select-dev
Note: A space exists between the opening quotation mark and the forward
slash.
- Type show-children and write down the
WWPN, loop ID, and LUN of the boot device.
- Type WWPN yourwwpnloopidlun set-boot-id, where yourwwpn is the WWPN associated with the boot volume, loopid is the associated loop ID, and lun is the associated
LUN.
The following command is an example:
5005076812345678 80 0 set-boot-id
- Type reset-all.
- Type boot vx-disk –rv, where disk is the name of your boot disk.