Configuring Hosts and Storage Arrays
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Continuous Access Storage Appliance Installation and Maintenance Guide
Configuring appliance LUNs with Veritas Volume Manager
This procedure assumes that Veritas Volume Manager (DMP) is installed and the local hard
disk drive has been added to Volume Manager as the root disk.
To configure appliance LUNs for a Solaris host with Veritas Volume Manager:
1. From the Solaris host, go to the
/kernel/drv
directory and use
vi
to edit the
vxdmp.conf
file.
2. Change the parameter
jbod_dmp = “Hitachi”
to
jbod_dmp= “HP.”
3. Save and exit the
vxdmp.conf
file.
4. Use the –r option to reboot and reconfigure the Solaris host.
5. Map the appropriate LUNs to the Solaris host from both appliance nodes..
6. Follow steps 5 through 7 in “
Configuring appliance LUNs without Veritas Volume
7. Open a command prompt.
8. To ensure the Solaris operating system can use these LUNs, enter the following command:
“vxdctl enable”
9. To verify that you can detect the mapped LUNs in Volume Manager, enter one of the
following commands:
“vxdisk list”
“vxdiskadm”
10. Once you can detect the LUNs in Veritas Volume Manager, you should complete the
following steps:
■
Add the LUNs to a volume group.
■
Create a logical volume and file system.
Refer to the Veritas administrator‘s guide for instructions.
