Fibre Channel Howto Guide?

Hi, I am new to Fibre Channel and I am having problems. I cannot get my v210's to see the fc 3510 array. The disks on the array show up on the switch fabric as Sun and wwpn numbers. The v210 is connected to the FC Switch (cisco 5428) but when I do a luxadm probe no array is seen. Similarly format shows only the local disk on the system.
I can see the qlogic HBA card and its associated driver on the v210 and I am at a loss what to do next. I need to know how to configure the HBA and Im guessing I have to add it to the Zone. So I wondered if some one could explain zones or tell me where I can find documentation to help me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

Solaris 8 but we want to upgrade to Solaris 9.
I dont have FC documentation available - Do you know where I can find some? thats why I registered here, otherwise I will have to buy a book or Go on an expensive course. Or there may be somewhere handy online, for free, that tells me what I need to know.? Howto guide?
Are you referring to documentation that may have come with the hba or something on the sun site.
Thanks for responding.

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Re: Xserve Raid Mounts, Corrupt Directory tired of rebuilding directory
Posted: Jun 27, 2010 1:25 PM in response to: Todd Buhmiller
Are multiple computers accessing the same data on the RAID at the same time?
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+The xserve raids will mount automatically to any computer that I connect the qlogic fc switch to+
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Hi,I have acquired two HP M6412-A Fibre Channel Drive Enclosures with 14 dual-port SAS15K disk drives (7 per enclosure) in a recent company takeover.I do not have any HP software licenses for the HP EVA4400 Dual Controller Array that came with the disk enclosures. HP wants more than $15k to re-license the EVA, so that is not an option.I took an older HP DL380 G5 server with 48GB RAM and added a HP StorageWorks 82Q 8GB PCI-e Dual Fibre Channel HBA (AJ764A) and connected the twodisk enclosures with the server. The server also have 4 x 1GB and 4 x 10GB ethernet ports.On the server HP Server I have loaded FreeNas 9.3 and I use the server and disk enclosures as a very capable SAN.The HP M6412-A Fibre Channel Drive Enclosures have two Fibre channel ports (red and green), but I have only connected the enclosures with one Fibre Channel loop to...
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Add Fibre Channel LUN to Server 2012 R2

I'm having difficulty configuring SAN storage attached to a pair of 2012 R2 hosts. I'm building a two node Hyper-V cluster. Bear in mind this is an operation that I'm very familiar with using VMware. I'm simply trying to get the windows
hosts to see the LUN so that I can configure it as shared disk in the Hyper-V cluster. This is IBM System x3850 storage. The host each have Emulex LPe 12000-M8 HBAs. Also, I'm pretty sure that the disk is visible from the HBAs in the OneCommand
utility. <see below>
I've tried to run the mpclaim -e command and it returns "There is no enterprise storage connected on the system"
What am I not doing? MPIO? I've tried adding a device using the 8x16 rule "IBM 5639 "
I can't find any documentation that explains how to do this in server 2012 R2 ANYWHERE!!!! I'm pulling my hair out and I don't have that much to lose!! :)
Please help!
Thank you,
Roger

Again, this is not a Windows issue. I am not familiar with the IBM utility, so I don't know what that is showing. I just know that critical to accessing Fibre Channel LUNs is that you have your SAN network zoned to allow the WWPN from your
HBA to talk to the WWPN of the Fibre Channel controllers, and then on the controller you need to mask the LUN to expose it to the WWN of your server. If that is not done, Windows will not see anything. Once it is done, Windows sees the disk as it if were a
local disk.
I do see that you have two HBAs, and some of the WWN information seems to be duplicated. Most likely you are trying to configure some form of MPIO. I am assuming that is something provided by the IBM software, but it must be working properly
otherwise, once the zone/mask is correct, you will see each LUN two or more times, depending upon your Fibre configuration.
. : | : . : | : . tim

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