Fabric Environment with HP-UX 11i

[ASSIST]

Hi

I want to configure a environment with some HP 9000 with Fibre Channel Fabric cards (HP-UX 11i), 1 XP array, 2 Brocade switch and a Ultrium Library, that is a pure Fabric Environment......

I was read in a document from HP that Fabric is not supported in HP-UX 11i

Is this true?

[Mark van Silfhout]

Hi,

HP-UX 11.i supports Fabric (just be sure to have the latest FC drivers and patches - 1.04 is an absolute minimum for Fabric ).

Regards,
Mark

[Insu Kim]

HP-UX 11i supports fabric topology.
To connect fabric, the latest A5158A software driver is required.

A5158A HBA supports the use of fiber channel switches between the hosts and storage devices, enabling better performance and fault isolation.

click on web site below to find out more.
It shows patches and drivers released up to date for HBAs on each HP-UX.

http://techsolutions.hp.com/fc/swreftbl.htm

hope this helps,

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

One thing to note: If in your Tape Library you have a FC/SCSI bridge A4688A or A4689A, you *must* have fabric anyway, as no type of loop is supported for these.

The below link is the type FC cards for the various systems.

http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity/storage/adapter15/specifications/index.html

-Michael

[Wodisch]

Hello,

just use the command "/opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil" on the device file shown by "ioscan -fnkC fc" and you will see, wether your fc interface is running in "fabric" or "local loop" or "arbitrated loop" mode.

HTH,
Wodisch

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Outputs from two different protocols

HTH
-Michael

Private loop output from FC
# /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil /dev/td1

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PRIVATE_LOOP
Local N_Port_id is = 0x000001
Local Loop_id is = 125
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b000008310d
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b000008310c
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/8/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 119385
Number of Active Login Sessions = 1

Fabric output of FC
# /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil /dev/td4

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x011600
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b000007d037
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b000007d036
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 1/12/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 2016887
Number of Active Login Sessions = 3