Sun Microsystems Solaris 7 11/99, Hardware Platform Manual

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124 Solaris 7 11/99 Sun Hardware Platform Guide • November 1999
2. Create the AP metadisks.
You must know the configuration of the host’s hardware so that you know which
two ports are connected to the same disk array. The following steps use
pln
ports.
Your ports may vary, depending on the configuration of the host.
a. Display all of the ports and their disk device nodes.
b. Create an uncommitted disk pathgroup.
Where:
-c
causes the pathgroup to be created
-p
designates the primary path
-a
designates the alternate path
You can verify the results by using
apconfig(1M)
as shown above.
c. Commit the database entries:
You can verify the results of the above command by using
apconfig -S
.
# apinst
pln0
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
/dev/dsk/c1t3d0
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0
pln1
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0
/dev/dsk/c2t3d0
/dev/dsk/c2t4d0
/dev/dsk/c2t5d0
# apdisk -c -p pln0 -a pln1
# apconfig -S -u
# apdb -C