2009-06-18

HOW to do MPXIO on your solaris 10


You can use command #stmsboot -e this command will be reboot you system but it not work in case your internal disk is fiber disk.
You can config by edit file

Before to config MPXIO you must get detial about hba card on your hosts
#cfgadm -alv
...
unavailable fc-private n /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc
c1::500000e0155bc3d1 connected configured unknown FUJITSU MAX3147FCSUN146G
.....

c2 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc-fabric n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0:fc
c2::201400a0b8325c58 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0:fc::201400a0b8325c58
...

c3 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc-fabric n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc
c3::201500a0b8325c58 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc::201500a0b8325c58

this information is mean
c1 is a internal disk
c2 is disk from SAN
c3 is disk from SAN


next step edit file fp.conf remark in line mpxio-disable=? and config mpxio-disable on your hba card
#vi /kernel/drv/fp.conf
....
...
...
# mpxio-disable="no";
# mpxio-disable="yes";
....
....
name="fp" parent="/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@1" port=0 mpxio-disable="no";
name="fp" parent="/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2" port=0 mpxio-disable="no";
..

save file and reboot

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