topic Re: EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3 in Operating System - OpenVMS

EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3

The Brit — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:44:42 GMT

I previously had a lun being presented from an EVA5000 to and DS10 running OpenVMS 8.3.

Since we replaced the EVA5000 with and EVA4400, I am having problems seeing the LUN from the EVA4400.

I have a series of bl860c blades running 8.3-1H1, and these systems can see the EVA4400 luns without any problems.

Only the DS10 is having a problem.

The DS10 HBA's and WWN's have not changed and the storage manager swears that they are correctly set up in Command View.

(I have tried SYSMAN IO AUTO without success)

So the question is does anyone know if there is any known restriction running EVA4400 with DS10/Alpha V83??

Dave

Re: EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3

Sheldon Smith — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:28:08 GMT

A quick look through the HP Single Point Of Connectivity Knowledge - http://www.hp.com/storage/spock - shows two required patches: VMS831H1_FIBRE_SCSI-V0200 and VMS831H1_UPDATE-V0100. I do not know if the FIBRE_SCSI patch is in the UPDATE bundle.
Install and reboot as needed.

Switches: Is/are the VMS host(s) zoned to the EVA4400?

Have you set the OS Unit IDs on the vdisks? Don't forget, they need to be unique relative to any other disks presented to the host(s).

Re: EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3

Shriniketan Bhagwat — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:46:51 GMT

Hi,

Does VMS server and EVA are in same zone? You can view the EVA from the SDA command fc show wtid. Is it visible?

Regards,
Ketan

Re: EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3

Volker Halle — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:47:06 GMT

Dave,

does the EVA see the DS10 HBA ?

Volker.

Re: EVA4400 luns presented to Alpha V8.3

The Brit — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:32:48 GMT

Thanks Guys,
Problem is solved.

Apparently with the new storage subsystems, the "FC Node Name" can be used to present storage to all HBA ports on the host. This seems to work fine with the Itanium Systems.

It doesnt work with the Alpha (V8.3). The presentation still had to be made to the "FC Port Name".

When this was done, the Alpha was able to see the device and configure it.

Dave.