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Dynamic Path Failover Driver for AIX
FibreQuik Host Bus Adapter
Installation and User Guide

Cambex Corporation

115 Flanders Road

Westborough, MA 01581

Customer support

[email protected]

Document: 081-468-025
Date: 04/21/10
Rev.: K

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Page 1: ...Failover Driver for AIX FibreQuik Host Bus Adapter Installation and User Guide Cambex Corporation 115 Flanders Road Westborough MA 01581 Customer support support cambex com Document 081 468 025 Date 0...

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Page 3: ...rademarks 9 SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE INSTALLATION 10 Driver Installation command line 10 Driver Installation smit 12 Hardware Installation 13 AutoRecover 14 AIX Configuration 15 Persistent Bindings 16 SM...

Page 4: ...DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY 33 Warning 33 SAFETY NOTICES 34 FCC Warning 34 Safety Notice 34 DYNAMIC PATH FAILOVER LICENSE AGREEMENT 35 2...

Page 5: ...a standby path For arrays that support preferred paths AutoRecover will automatically resume operation on the repaired path otherwise an operator may manually change paths to do load balancing Storage...

Page 6: ...that communicates with the RAID controllers on the storage device This is the layer used to create modify or delete LUNs The Storage Management layer may provide SAN Management functions but only for...

Page 7: ...port SCSI 2 disk and tape devices FCP device drivers support newer SCSI 3 disk and tape devices which provides a larger address space for target ID and LUN When using the FCP device driver the adapter...

Page 8: ...le LUNs on a RAID controller is that we can choose to distribute them so as to balance the I O across multiple paths The choice can be made in one of two ways If one RAID controller has preference ove...

Page 9: ...able We set the ISL paths target preference lower than the direct paths so they will be used last Example 3 A 2G RAID array is connected to a 2G switch which does speed matching to two 1G HBAs in the...

Page 10: ...d have the problem of thrashing One host tries to move the LUN group to preferred controller A while the other host tries to move the group to preferred controller B Anti thrashing code prevents this...

Page 11: ...100 200 400 MB s PC4000e Single Port PC4002e Dual Port Bus PCI e x4 Data rate each dir 100 200 400 MB s Cable length copper 30 multimode optical 500 70 m single mode optical 10 Voltage 3 3 or 5 3 3 V...

Page 12: ...river directory on the hard disk Example output would be Fileset Name Level I U Q Content PC2000 driver obj 2 6 10 42 I b usr PC1000 Fibre Channel Adapter Driver AIX 5L cbxdpf driver obj 6 1 1 29 I b...

Page 13: ...d installp acd device all where device is as described above example installp acd mnt AIX6 1 all After installing the driver see the README file for additional information and release notes usr lpp cb...

Page 14: ...req section If not at the correct maintenance level the driver installation will fail The current level may be found from the command instfix i grep ML Please note Installation may fail if conflicting...

Page 15: ...bserve proper static precautions Detailed procedures for opening the case and for suggested adapter placement may be found in the Operator Guide for the specific server model When using copper cable i...

Page 16: ...rks by periodically polling the standby paths to each LUN If the polls fail the path is marked as failed If the polls succeed the path is marked as available for use If path preferences are set up the...

Page 17: ...groups logical volumes and file systems See the AIX System Management Guide for a detailed explanation Find out the names of the installed adapters with the command lsdev Cc adapter In arbitrated loo...

Page 18: ...devices that are found are automatically assigned to a SCSI ID and a persistent binding is created Persistent bindings are by portname and are kept in the ODM database They are preserved and restored...

Page 19: ...256 number of simultaneous I O operations dma_window 64 PCI DMA memory window in MB retry_delay 3 Delay in seconds after bus reset or other error logout_delay 7 Time in seconds allowed for ports to be...

Page 20: ...facility Trace Cambex FC Adapters Runs the AIX trace facility looking only for the entries specific to the adapter driver Path Management Commands The path management commands available in SMIT are i...

Page 21: ...ly for the entries specific to the DPF driver and adapter driver Manage AutoRecovery Subsystem Provides the following functions Show Status of AutoRecovery Subsystem Start AutoRecovery Subsystem Stop...

Page 22: ...bxfc dpfinfo How to set path preferences Controller preference is set on the RAID controller using RAID Management software provided by the storage vendor HBA preference and Target preference are set...

Page 23: ...ement Change Show Characteristics of Cambex Managed HBAs Controller preference this is for multi controller RAID arrays where one or more of the controllers reports that it owns the LUN Controllers wh...

Page 24: ...no Device CLEARS it s Queue on error location Location Label lun_id 0x0 Logical Unit Num ID node_name 0x20000080e511b744 FC Node Name pvid none Physical Volume id q_err yes Use QERR bit q_type simple...

Page 25: ...each card fscsi x x is a unique number for each SCSI card Available SS SS S is the location in the machine where the card is installed Check that the number of SCSI cards and their slots are correct I...

Page 26: ...on adapter scsi1 It will also list the loop ID and port ID fabric address which can change dynamically as devices are connected or disconnected usr lpp cbxfc mbtest fscsi1 getp This command will show...

Page 27: ...installed for your storage or that the storage is not yet configured usr lpp cbxfc runtrace This should be run to start a trace if Cambex support requests a trace of the card failure To stop the trac...

Page 28: ...n the active path has failed to a device DPF_UNRECOV This indicates that the active path to a device has failed and that DPF was not successful in transferring I O to an alternate path DPF_OFFLINE DPF...

Page 29: ...a new driver to be installed without rebooting the server File systems which are unmounted before the process may be mounted again afterwards without affecting the data 2 Install the new driver with...

Page 30: ...Appendix A Identifying Fibre Channel Components Copper DE9 GBIC Copper DE9 Cable 28...

Page 31: ...Copper HSSDC Cable Duplex SC Optical GBIC 29...

Page 32: ...Small form factor SFF optical LC cable 30...

Page 33: ...ansceiver hardware is detecting a signal Middle LED Firmware is being synchronized Bottom LED Flashing amber when not synchronized LED NORM BAD CABLE NO CONN TOP GREEN GREEN OFF MIDDLE GREEN OFF OFF B...

Page 34: ...pplied Flash Flash Flash Initializing Off Off On Flash 1G Flash indicates active Off On Flash Off 2G Flash indicates active On Flash Off Off 4G Flash indicates active Flashing in unison indicates init...

Page 35: ...are in conformity with the following standards EN 55022 1994 A1 1995 A2 1997 Class A ITE emissions requirements EN 50082 1 1992 EMC residential commercial and light industrial generic immunity standa...

Page 36: ...ity to operate this equipment Safety Notice Class 1 Laser Product Versions of this product supplied with an optical transceiver meet the safety requirements of a class 1 laser as specified by the US F...

Page 37: ...otice Upon termination of the license for the Software the user must discontinue use of and destroy or delete any copies of the Software Except as limited by applicable law Cambex s total liability un...

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