The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9. Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver to. The solaris leadville driver will not check the hba firmware and update it if. Emulex gen 5 fibre channel 16gfc host bus adapters hbas by broadcom provide up to 1. Raid arrays may want to be configured using the pertarget tunable throttles. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for oracle sparc hosts after you install the emulex host bus adapter hba and the driver on the oracle sparc host, you must configure the emulex hba. We have dell hardware and this is how i got the info via powercli. For solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model lp900x to later models lpx, lpe1100x, lpe1200x for solaris 10, the only driver supported is sun sfs emlxs driver. The fcinfo command may not work in solaris 8 and 9. The sun driver does automatically persistent binding, in lpfc driver you have to edit lpfc. Emulex lpe12002lm8f download drivers, manual, firmware. Eternus disk storage systems server connection guide fibre. Configuring amcc, emulex, and qlogic host device drivers. The heart of the sun fibre channel architecture consists of the fc transport layer fctl modules, which provide a common interface for.
The emlxdrv utility is intended to be used for binding associating the emulex emlxs leadville fibre channel driver and the emulex lpfc traditional nonleadville fibre. Solaris 10 os update 1 and later include the sfs driver with the os. How do i know which hba cards hardware i have on solaris 10. Jul 15, 2009 today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. For the emulex setting need to download the emc fibre channel with emulex host bus adapters in the solaris environment manual from emulex and check the following. Emulex does not support coexistence of both native nonoracle emulex fc hba driver lpfc and oracle emulex fc hba driver emlxs on same solaris server. This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment take a backup of important files. You will require the following files before you begin the upgrade. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers. For example, for emulex hbas, there is the lpfc driver from emulex, and the emlxs driver contained in the socalled leadville driver stack also known as san foundation suite, or sfs.
Persistent binding on solaris 10 with emulex hba dell. Download and install the lpfc driver from the emulex website. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the geek. Legacy discontinued jni fc hbas with jfca driver are sun hba cards but other jni. First look at devices that use sun qlogic hba driver qlc andor sun emulex hba driver emlxs to see if their. For finding the same details in solaris 8 or 9 you have to rely upon the emulex or lpfc utility. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris pn 300000607 rev a53. Emulex drivers for solaris user manual march 1, 2016 2.
Migrating from nonoracle emulex lpfcelxfc fc hba driver. The relevant data i have is below, but from it i cannot ascertain for sure if i have emulex 0 or the unix and linux forums. Please read faq sun solaris native hbas and drivers. Oracle solaris operating system solaris 10 1 u11 sparc and 3 minimum patch revisions, 14888802, 14208803, and 15011502 oracle solaris cluster software4,5 maximum number of nodes6 multipath driver oracle solaris oracle san driver bundled in os for oracle solaris 10 host adapters3 sgxpci1fcqf2, sgxpci1fcql2, sgxpci2fcqf2, sg. Hi, im trying to determine which hba cards are installed on my solaris 10 sunfirev240 machine. Solaris 11, use the earlier version of elxfc posted on the emulex website. Other emulex drivers as iscsi function driver be2iscsi and fcoe function driver lpfc are also version 10.
The emulexsun lightpulse adapter device driver for solaris, emlxs, is a fibre channel adapter fca driver as specified by the sun fibre channel architecture. Jul 18, 2012 since updating the emlxs driver will no longer automatically updates the host bus adapters hba firmware on oraclebranded hbas, you have to do it through the proposed steps forced lip. Nov 28, 2017 in this case, the issue occurs when solaris uses the lpfc driver. For solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage devices. This document describes how to install, configure, and test the sun storagetek enterprise pcix 4 gb fibre channel fc single or dual port emulex host bus. Lpe11002m4 the procedure for all model will remain same. What are the queue depth settings for solaris for emulex.
Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris version installation information. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a solaris host. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning. How to change emulex drivers in solaris from lpfc to emxls.
Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for. X that contains the emlxs driver which is supplied with the installation cds of solaris 10. Replacing a nonoracle emulex fc hba card with a oracle emulex fc hba card would require migrating all nonoracle emulex fc hba cards to oracle emulex fc hba driver. The phenomenon occurs disregarding the version of be2iscsi and lpfc drivers version. Persistent binding on solaris 10 with emulex hba dell community. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the. Installing and uninstalling uninstalling the drivers for solaris 10 10 driver on top of the oce driver, the elxnic driver installation fails. The presence of emulex nic function driver elxnet version 10. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for oracle sparc hosts. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host ibm. This allows both drivers to coexist in the same host and attach to mutually exclusive emulex fibre channel hba models. Solaris 10 update 8 emulex fibre adapter oracle community. When the load driver option is selected during the operating system build of a windows 2008 server in a bfs configuration, a multiple entry of the emulex driver is displayed.
Channel driver and the emulex lpfc traditional nonleadville fibre channel driver to the various models of emulex fibre channel hbas. The os will then know how to use the proper new firmware when a lip is intentionally initiated from the command line. After installing the san storage foundation kit, use the emlxdrv utility to bind the emlxs driver to the desired emulex hba. The emulex gen 6 1632gb fibre channel fc host bus adapters hbas by broadcom are designed to address the demanding performance, reliability and management requirements of modern networked storage systems that utilize high performance and low latency solid state storage drives for caching and persistent storage as well as hard disk drive arrays. Copy driver firmware updates from shared area to local disk. So if native non oracle emulex driver is in use then the luxadm command will not work. The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9 for solaris 8 and 9, the sun sfs emlxs driver is available starting from hba model lp900x to later models lpx, lpe1100x, lpe1200x. The leadville driver stack also contains a driver qlc for qlogic hbas. In solaris 8 and 9 environments, lpfc drivers were frequently. Please read faq sun solaris native hbas and drivers on emc powerlink. For the nic elxnic driver, solaris 10 and solaris 11 are supported sparc is not supported. For the most current fc driver, see the latest oracle updates. Emulex lightpulse fc scsiip host bus adapter driver. Please enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of our new posts by email.
Mar 08, 2011 the emulex 81e and 82e hbas aj762a and aj763a running the universal boot image 5. This value is global, affecting each target recognized by the driver, but may be overridden on a pertarget basis see below. From some of the documents ive read, you may have to use the lpfc driver for solaris rather than the emlxs driver. Update the hba firmware on oraclebranded hbas blogo thnet. For emulex fibre channel cards, switch the driver so that the emulex driver lpfc driver is used instead of the sfs driver. As you wrote you are having emulex drivers installed on your. Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris drivers for emulex it tells how to switch control over from emlxs to lpfc.
Untar the file containing the driver, apps, driver and the emulex application kit. Identifying hba cards and wwn numbers in solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11. Replace lpfc with the module name youre looking for drivers from. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris.
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