SAN Disks

[navin]

Hello All,
I have got new SAN disks attahce dto my itanium server.When i do pvdisplay i get error message . What else needed to be taken care in order for my hpux recognize the san luns. so far i did insf -e ,that's all.
please advice
Thanks

[Sean Dale]

What error are you getting?

Does ioscan -fnCdisk see the new disks?

[Sandman!]

The SAN disks need to to be zoned to your server before they can be seen by it. Ask your SAN Storage Admins if that has been completed. After that run ioscan without any arguments to scan and display the new LUNs followed by "insf -e" to create the device special files for each of the LUNs that appear in the ioscan.

[Denver Osborn]

I'm assuming that insf did create the device special files, otherwise why run pvdisplay.

If your host sees the new storage that was presented and all you've done is an 'insf -e' then pvdisplay will fail. The pvdisplay command will display information for Physical Volumes attached to an active volume group. New disks won't have any lvm info.

If you need assistance setting these up from scratch, more detail is needed.

Are these new luns or do they contain data?
How do you intend to use the new luns?
What's your volume manager? (lvm, vxvm or...)

-denver