There is always onetoone relationship between the virtual fibre channel client adapter and the virtual fibre channel server adapter. It supports a storageredundant configuration environment for a host system that is attached to storage devices. Ibm flex system fc5052 2port 16 gb fc adapter users guide iii. Fibre channel fc host bus adaptershba are interface cards that connects the host system to a fibre channel network or devices. How to find wwn number of hba in linux,solaris,aix find wwn in aix. No additional device drivers filesets needs to be installed on vio server. How to find hbanic driverfirmware version virtual allan.
The firmware on an aix fibre adapter hba is not appropriate in this. This article describes the recent enhancements to the ibm aix operating system mpio software, and describes how the ibm aix lsmpio command can be used during problem determination. Dynamic tracking of fibre channel devices aix supports dynamic tracking of fibre channel fc devices. Once you ask for storage from storage team the very first qestion will be what is the wwpn address of hba cards on your aix. Multiple later images are listed in descending order. Oct 24, 2011 you can now assign the storage to the aix lpar. How to get the san environment information and statistics on aix, hpux, linux, solaris, and windows.
The fibre channel device driver stack on ibm aix enables multiple io queues to issue io requests in parallel across the queues. Developing device drivers for characterclass mca adapters in. Note the output format of various aix commands is not always static. Get information for the fabric devices displayed above. Problem determination of these san fabrics becomes more difficult due to ever increasing complexity.
Developing device drivers for characterclass mca adapters. If several other fc scsi disk drive lines are seen the, array drivers are not correctly installed. Ip over fc adapter driver information no dma resource count. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on aix unix. Dynamic tracking of fibre channel devices in aix pid. Software that has been written onto readonly memory rom lsmcode c shows firmware level for system, processor invscout. Ibm flex system fc5052 2port 16gb fc adapter users guide. For windows server 2003 sp2, you must also install microsoft fixes kb932755 and kb939315 or later for windows server 2003 sp1, you must also install microsoft fixes kb932755 and kb939315 or later runs on. We now have the information for the driver and the firmware, now we wil check the compatibility in. To monitor the activity at all file system levels and write a verbose report to the fmon. The procedure to update the microcode of an ethernet adapter is pretty much the same as for the fibrechannel adapters. May 26, 2018 info hp flexfabric 10gb 2port 554flb adapter on pci bus 04 device 02 irq 36 port 1 logical link speed. Use below command to check the wwpn of virtual fibre channel adapter on aix client.
How to verify aix fibre channel configurations with. Hi, i ran the following command then where is the hba driver version. This adapter is supported in the following linux distributions or later versions. L identifies levels of microcode that are later than the level of microcode currently installed on the adapter. Thats because fcs0 and fcs1 are in fact two ports of the same adapter. How to find wwn number of hba in linux,solaris,aix. Eternus multipath driver 2 for aix installation information. Map the virtual fibre channel adapter to the physical fibre channel adapter on the vios. Information for the lagacylinux style driver look in the file.
Now lets see how to to find wwpn address on aix server. Aix medium changer, tape driver version, hba, fiber. Although most fibre channel drivers register a model name and description within sysfs, not all scsi drivers will. Host os version host computer cpu architecture for standard rack servers. Subsystem device driver path control module sddpcm is used for implementing multipath configuration environment using ibm system storage san volume controller svc, ibm storwize v7000, and other ibm storage products. Verify that the file sets are installed at the aix version level you are. Performance improvements for ibm aix fc and fcoe device. In the default case, devscan finds every fibre channel, sas, iscsi, and vscsi adapter in the system and traverses each one.
The fc adapter driver then reroutes traffic destined for that device to the new address while the devices are still online. On the ibm webpage there is no possibility to download the driver from. Configuring operating systems for oracle database client on ibm aix on power systems 64bit additional drivers and software packages for ibm aix on power systems 64bit. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver 2 for aix installation information. The two major manufacturers of fc hbas are qlogic and emulex and the drivers for many hbas are distributed inbox with the operating systems. Like the entstat for network is there any command to check the connectivity between the fc hba to the san fabric in aix. C identifies the level of microcode currently installed on the adapter. You can get the wwns of the virtual fc client adapter ports either from the aix operating system or from the hardware management console. Listing the device driver version mpio validating object data management odm odm is an integral part of device configuration on aixpowervm. Verify the hosts fibre channel storage controllers are logged in to the fabric.
First we will find out all the installed fc fiber channel adapters in aix server. Listing the device driver version mpio validating object data management odm odm is an integral part of device configuration on aix powervm. Determine if fabric cabling for the host and storage controller target conforms to netapp best practices. Practical guide to aix and powervm, powerha, powervc, hmc, devops. While the test is running, you will be prompted to plug or unplug the fibre cable or the wrap plug to or from the connector on the fibre channel adapter. Aix and vios disk and fibre channel adapter queue tuning. Hpux hba model, firmware, and driver version if you look at the part number search a6795 you can find out that its indeed a tachyon xl2 fiber channel adapter.
For those types of cards you must use lspci k to retrieve the information. Now to find out the wwn number address of each adapter, type the following command. How to get the san environment information and statistics on. Dynamic tracking of fibre channel devices in aix pid change.
For windows server 2003 sp2, you must also install microsoft fixes kb932755 and kb939315 or later. The version of eternus multipath driver which supports the disk storage system is as below. A separate driver head is written for each device attached to the scsi. How to find hba card wwpn address on aix unixmantra. For example, the smart array, sil2424 and ata hba, as shown in the above configuration, do not supply that information. If you intend to use odbc, then install the most recent odbc driver manager for ibm aix on power systems 64bit. It is designed to get the storage system up and running as quickly as possible with minimal decision points.
Look for the current version of this software and follow the link to. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters qla2340. Subsystem device driver path control module sddpcm for. How to get the san environment information and statistics.
Up paths paths paths paths remote ports enabled disabled failed missing id 500a098396a7d4ca 29 0 0 0 0x62000 500a098386a7d4ca 20 0 0 0 0x62100 500507630418d5a0 10 0 0 0 0x62300 50050763041815a0 10 0 0 0 0x62800 50050763041855a0 10 0 0 0 0x62900 adapter driver. Aix supports dynamic tracking of fibre channel fc devices. Management tool command line interface for use with the qlogic linux driver version 8. Verifying the aix device driver software ibm knowledge center. I wrote it to fill a need on an aix system and have since ported it to solaris. See the fibre channel and iscsi configuration guide and data ontap block access management guide for acceptable cabling configurations. Ibm aix multipath io mpio resiliency and problem determination. Do proper zoning between san storage and wwpn of aix client fc virtual adapter.
Note that the virtual fc client adapter holds the wwns for the clients and virtual fc server adapters are just a connecting adapter used for passing through the san fabric data to the physical hba port. The model is in the vpd, lscfg vl fcs the driver is a function of the aix tl and sp, oslevel. Monitors the performance of the file system, and reports the io activity on behalf of logical files, virtual memory segments, logical volumes, and physical volumes. To improve the number of iops on smaller block size io requests, the multiqueue functionality is introduced with the 16 gb fc or 10 gb fcoe adapter driver starting from. Multipath storage configurations are a key component of data centers. Since i have written this, aix now includes a similar utility. A virtual fibre channel adapter is a virtual adapter that provides client logical partitions with a fibre channel connection to a storage area network through the virtual io server logical partition. We need wwpn address information of hba card to create zoning on fiber channel switch for assigning and unassign storage to a aix host. Here is the steps to find the wwn address of fiber channel adapter in aix server. Bladecenter fc supported software qlogic driver download. Odm contains the default values for the mpio driver that must be modified so the mpio driver can take advantage of your e.
Fc scsi adapter driver information no dma resource count. The difference between traditional redundancy with scsi adapters and the npiv technology using virtual fibre channel adapters is that the redundancy occurs on the client, because only the client recognizes the disk. Dynamic tracking of fibre channel devices in aix pid change in fibre channel fabric. You can find out the driver details from swlist command. After you have installed tivoli storage manager version 6. Fc adapter defined, not available nimrodman mis 21 dec 05 11. Isvs developing kernel extensions andor applications that communicate with the aix fibre channel driver stack should refer to the fibre channel protocol for scsi and iscsi subsystem article in aix 5l version 5. Remove each fc scsi device with rmdev d l and check the driver installation. Class i hw path driver sw state hw type description fc 0 0310 fcd claimed interface hp a682660001 2gb dual port pcipcix fibre channel adapter fc port 1 devfcd0. Developing device drivers for characterclass mca adapters in aix, version 3. Practical guide for san with pseries especially p64 installing the hba drivers and p120 connecting to the fastt500. The next step is to go to you client partition and create a virtual fibre channel client adapter which will be associated with the vfc host adapter. Subsystem device driver path control module sddpcm for ibm aix.
To verify that the aix device driver for an adapter is installed, do the. Devices cambex fibre channel adapter change cambex. Option rom version, displays the version of the options rom on the adapter. You can always create the adapter after the profile is created. The model is in the vpd, lscfg vl fcs the driver is a function of the aix tl and sp, oslevel s, emgr, etc. With this multiple io queue support, there is a significant improvement in the number of iops for io requests of smaller block sizes. While the test is running, you will be prompted to plug or unplug the fibre cable or the wrap plug to or from the connector on. The article discusses the performance improvements and results for aix native and npiv configurations for 16 gb. Odm contains the default values for the mpio driver that must be modified so the mpio driver can take advantage of your eseries and efseries devices. Run the aix advanced diagnostics using the problem determination mode against the fibre channel adapter.
If atape driver data path do have drivers installed. See the current os levels uname a oslevel r oslevel q oslevel g see adapters, drivers, and microcode. Like the entstat for network is there any command to check the connectivity between the fchba to the san fabric in aix. Devscan scans a set of scsi adapters, and then issues a set of commands to a set of targets and luns on those adapters. Novell sles 9 sp3 and sp4 novell sles 10 sp1 and sp2, sles 11 inbox driver only red hat rhel as 4. Well the vendor will be ibm or you need to look elsewhere if you have some nonibm adapter and driver installed. Previous releases of aix required a user to unconfigure fc storage device and adapter device instances before making changes on the system area network san that might result in. Multipath drivers for the aixpowervm operating system. Displays statistics gathered by the specified fibre channel device driver. Eternus multipath driver 2 installation information. The highlighted area tells us that we have virtual fibre channel adapter, which mean we are vios client and the adapter is a virtual that was provided by the vios server. How to find hbanic driverfirmware version allan kjaer may 25, 2016 april 16, 2020 i have seen some problems when running the wrong driver version against firmware version, so here is a guide how to find the information. It provides enhanced data availability, dynamic inputoutput i.
When using eternus multipath driver with fc switches, zone settings must be defined. How to check the hba name, make, model, firmware, driver. Sep 19, 2014 how to find wwn number of hba in linux,solaris, aix find wwn in aix. Creating a vfc client adapter on the vio client from the client partition that you selected to use when creating the vfc host adapter in the previous steps, go to the virtual adapters tab. Hardware management commands in aix operating system storage backup tutorials.
Figure 1 depicts how io is parallelized on multiple. See the bottom of this section for aix part number mappings lsdev cc adapter spci grep fcs for each of the fcs instances micorcode lsmcode cd fcs0 firmware lscfg vl fcs0 grep z9. Oct 22, 2011 thats because fcs0 and fcs1 are in fact two ports of the same adapter. It is later than the level of microcode currently installed on the adapter. If the fc adapter driver detects a link event such as a lost link between a storage device and a switch, the fc adapter driver will wait a short period of time, on the order of 15 seconds, to allow the fabric to stabilize. Also use these commands to fix atape device drivers issues.
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