Chapter 3 Setting Up MPxIO
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3.3 Solaris 8 OS
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3.3.4
Reconfiguring and Restarting the Server
Reconfigure and restart the server to effect the new settings.
The ETERNUS Disk storage system can be reconfigured by creating the "/reconfigure" file and
rebooting the server.
# Copyright (c) 2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
#pragma ident "@(#)scsi_vhci.conf 1.3 01/08/22 SMI"
#
name="scsi_vhci" class="root";
#
# mpxio global enable/disable switch: setting mpxio-disable="no" will activate
# I/O multipathing; setting mpxio-disable="yes" disables this feature (do
# not remove this property).
#
mpxio-disable="no";
#
# Load balancing global configuration: setting load-balance="none" will cause
# all I/O to a given device (which supports multipath I/O) to occur via one
# path. Setting load-balance="round-robin" will cause each path to the device
# to be used in turn.
#
load-balance="round-robin";
#
# Force load driver to support hotplug activity (do not remove this property).
#
ddi-forceattach=1;
# Automatic failback configuration
# possible values are auto-failback="enable" or auto-failback="disable"
#
# This functionality requires patch 113039-02 (or higher).
#
auto-failback="enable";
#
# For enabling MPxIO support for 3rd party symmetric device need an
# entry similar to following in this file. Just replace the "SUN SENA"
# part with the Vendor ID/Product ID for the device, exactly as reported by
# Inquiry cmd.
#
# This functionality requires patch 113039-02 (or higher).
#
# device-type-scsi-options-list =
# "SUN SENA", "symmetric-option";
#
# symmetric-option = 0x1000000;
#
device-type-scsi-options-list =
"FUJITSU E8000", "symmetric-option";
symmetric-option = 0x1000000;
Check that auto-failback is enabled.
Check that mpxio-disable is set to "no".
Check that the symmetric-option
is enabled for the ETERNUS8000, in this case.
# touch /reconfigure
# /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -g0 -i6
