topic Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000 in Disk Enclosures

AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

ianvt — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:57:05 GMT

We are trying to get AIX 5.3 MPIO to work with a MA8000. AIX recognises the LUNS but MPIO does not. Does anybody else have any experience with this?
Ian

Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

Vincent Fleming — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:44:06 GMT

Ian,

Two things - AIX 5.3 is not yet supported with MA8000, and MPIO is not supported with MA8000.

You would need to use HP's SecurePath software (minimum rev 2.0C)for multipath, if it were supported on AIX 5.3. It's not yet.

Can you use AIX 5.2?

Cheers,

Vince

Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

ianvt — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:57:14 GMT

Thanks Vince. It is what I suspected. I will check to see whether we can use AIX 5.2.

Ian

Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

Peter Mattei — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:21:51 GMT

AIX 5.2 with the MA8000 is supported with SecurePath v2.0C and either the 2Gbit HBA HP A7539A or the older 1Gbit HBA HP 197819-B21.

I doubt that MPIO will ever be supported on the HSG controller.

Sorry for that
Peter

Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

ianvt — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:35:08 GMT

Thanks to Vince and Peter for the assistance.

Ian

Re: AIX 5.3 MPIO and MA8000

Darius Rudzika — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:00:54 GMT

Hello,

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/amss/index.html

supports HSG controllers