after MSA1000, how to mount/access drives? *newbie*

[Carl Hester_1]

This was passed to me by my boss, and even though I have no SAN experience, I am expected to give the customer an answer:

We need to mount the MSA1000 on a red hat advanced server. Using the "Cybrary:MSA1000 - How To Install an MSA1000 on Red Hat Linux" we got it installed, but how do I go about mounting the drives so that they are accessible?

Thanks in advance,

Carl

[Vincent Fleming · Accepted solution]

If you indeed confirmed connectivity to the MSA1000, then you should have created some LUNs along the way.

The LUNs "look" like disks - there are /dev entries for them. You should have at least 1 new one so far....


From here on out - treat them like generic local disk drives. If you're using LVM, create a new volume group with them or add them to an existing volume group, create LVs, and filesystems.

Else, follow the generic directions for adding a disk to Linux.

Good luck,

Vince

[Ian Derringer]

Vince - I am also new to Linux and MSA1000 SANs environment. I have setup my MSA controller and the LUNs and all. I've created a RAID5 - Now, I need to mount this RAID5 from my Linux RH AS 3.0 server. Would you please give me step-by-step on how to do this. Thank you in advance.

Ian