SAN Foundation with Solaris 10?

We are considering a move to Solaris 10 and want to know if the current SAN foundation is the proper version to use. Thanks!

Sorry for the late reply! It was exactly as you stated - I installed Solaris 10 on a box with a Qlogic adapter and it saw the switch, storage, et. al. cool!

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SAN Foundation for Solaris 10?????

I can't seem to find the download for SAN Foundation? Does it exist yet? How can I spin up my 256 zones without any storage?
Thanks!
-Walter

Are you sure SFK is required on S10? I haven't dug deep into this yet, but I installed S10 on a system with the Sun Qlogic FC card and it saw our EMC storage just fine.
SFK was a bolt on for 8 and 9, I would hope they integrated it into 10.

1) How to Boot from SAN for T4-1 Server with Solaris 11.1 OS on the disk? 2) How to SMI Label/Format a disk while OS Installation in Solaris 11.1?

FYI....boot from SAN is required for physical server (T4-1) (not OVM).
1) How to Boot from SAN for T4-1 Server with Solaris 11.1 OS on the disk?
The SAN disks allocated are visible in ok prompt. below is the output.
(0) ok show—disks
a) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@f/pci@0/usb@0, 2/hub@2/hub@3/storage@2/disk
b) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci€a/SUNW, ezalxs@0, l/fp@0, 0/disk
e) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW, ealxs@0/fp@0, 0/disk
d) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@8/SUNW, emlxs@0, l/fp@0, 0/disk
e) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@8/SUNW,enlxs@0/fp@0,0/disk
f) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@4/scsi@0/disk
g) /pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4/scsi@0/disk
h) /iscsi—hba/disk
q) NO SELECTION
valid choice: a. . .h, q to quit c
/pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW, ealxs@0/fp@0, 0/disk has been selected.
Type “Y ( Control—Y ) to insert it in the command line.
e.g. ok nvalias mydev “Y
for creating devalias mydev for /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/disk
(0) ok set—sfs—boot
set—sfs—boot ?
We tried selecting a disk and applying sfs-boot at ok prompt.
Can you please help me providing detailed pre-requesites/steps/procedure to implement this and to start boot from SAN.
2) How to SMI Label/Format a disk while OS Installation in Solaris 11.1?
As we know that ZFS is the default filesystem in Solaris 11.
We have seen in the Oracle documentation that for rpool below are recommended:
- A disk that is intended for a ZFS root pool must be created with an SMI label, not an EFI label.
- Create root pools with slices by using the s* identifier.
- ZFS applies an EFI label when you create a storage pool with whole disks.
- In general, you should create a disk slice with the bulk of disk space in slice 0.
I have seen the solution that using format -e, we change the labelling but all the data will be lost, whats the way to apply a SMI Label/Format on a rpool disks while OS Installation itself.
Please provide me the steps to SMI Label a disk while installaing Solaris 11.1 OS.

Oracle recommends below things on rpool: (thats reason wanted to apply SMI Label)
I have seen in the Oracle documentation that for rpool below are recommended:
- A disk that is intended for a ZFS root pool must be created with an SMI label, not an EFI label.
- Create root pools with slices by using the s* identifier.
- ZFS applies an EFI label when you create a storage pool with whole disks.
- In general, you should create a disk slice with the bulk of disk space in slice 0.

How do I map Hitachi SAN LUNs to Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g ASM?

Hi all,
I am working on an Oracle 10g RAC and ASM installation with Sun E6900 servers attached to a Hitachi SAN for shared storage with Sun Solaris 10 as the server OS. We are using Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) RAC clusterware
for the clustering software and raw devices for shared storage and Veritas VxFs 4.1 filesystem.
My question is this:
How do I map the raw devices and LUNs on the Hitachi SAN to Solaris 10 OS and Oracle 10g RAC ASM?
I am aware that with an Oracle 10g RAC and ASM instance, one needs to configure the ASM instance initialization parameter file to set the asm_diskstring setting to recognize the LUNs that are presented to the host.
I know that Sun Solaris 10 uses /dev/rdsk/CwTxDySz naming convention at the OS level for disks. However, how would I map this to Oracle 10g ASM settings?
I cannot find this critical piece of information ANYWHERE!!!!
Thanks for your help!

Yes that is correct however due to use of Solaris 10 MPxIO multipathing software that we are using with the Hitachi SAN it does present an extra layer of complexity and issues with ASM configuration. Which means that ASM may get confused when it attempts to find the new LUNs from the Hitachi SAN at the Solaris OS level. Oracle Metalink note 396015.1 states this issue.
So my question is this: how to configure the ASM instance initialization parameter asm_diskstring to recognize the new Hitachi LUNs presented to the Solaris 10 host?
Lets say that I have the following new LUNs:
/dev/rdsk/c7t1d1s6
/dev/rdsk/c7t1d2s6
/dev/rdsk/c7t1d3s6
/dev/rdsk/c7t1d4s6
Would I set the ASM initialization parameter for asm_diskstring to /dev/rdsk/c7t1d*s6
as correct setting so that the ASM instance recognizes my new Hitachi LUNs? Solaris needs to map these LUNs using pseudo devices in the Solaris OS for ASM to recognize the new disks.
How would I set this up in Solaris 10 with Sun multipathing (MPxIO) and Oracle 10g RAC ASM?
I want to get this right to avoid the dreaded ORA-15072 errors when creating a diskgroup with external redundancy for the Oracle 10g RAC ASM installation process.

ORACLE TABLESPACE CREATION PROBLEM IN SAN STORAGE FROM SOLARIS X86 Machine

Hi everybody,
i am new in this forum and i am also new in solaris operating system with SAN storage.
I am using oracle database 10g in a sun x86 machine with solaris 5.10.
While i am trying to create a tablepsace in SAN storage in a mount point of 2.1TB the following error occurs:
SQL> create tablespace test datafile '/appbrm01/oracle/oradata/test1.dbf' size 100M;
create tablespace test datafile '/appbrm01/oracle/oradata/test1.dbf' size 1M
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01119: error in creating database file '/appbrm01/oracle/oradata/test1.dbf'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Intel SVR4 UNIX Error: 79: Value too large for defined data type
Additional information: 45
SQL>
But when i am trying to create a tablepsace in SAN storage in a mount point of 1.8TB it works fine.
So, please if any body can help me to solve this issue i will be very glad
Thanks
Reshad

Also, Datapump from NAS device would perform slow.
Take a look at this:
10gR2 "database backup" to nfs mounted dir results in ORA-27054 NFS error
Note:356508.1 - NFS Changes In 10gR2 Slow Performance (RMAN, Export, Datapump) From Metalink.

Expand a SAN partition under Solaris 10

Hi!
I am using Solaris 10 hook up a SAN partition through SAN network. Now I want to expand the original SAN partition, with data on it, from 100GB to 200GB. We tried to expand it. On the SAN management side, it was expanded to 200GB. However, I am not able see and partition size change in Solaris 10.
Would you please kindly show me how to expand it properly without restoring data from backup?
Thanks.

Hi,
even though you expand the volume from the storage the partition table is still the same. You need to reflect the changes to the new head/sector/cylinder setting on the disk to see the new disk size.
Prior doing that take a backup copy of the existing partition table.
# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxs2
also if there are multiple partitions on the disks it is also dvisable to note down the start cylinder and the size in cylinders of each partition.
Then you have to unmount the volumes and relable it.
format
format> type
select "auto" to let format to select the new disk type and lable.
Once this is done you will see the new disk size. Create the existing partions using the saved partition information. You will find the added capacity towards the end of the previous cylinder boundry.
Note: During the capacity increase if there are changes to the heads or sectors of the disk then the "growfs" command will fail.

HTTP Server is not currently supported with Solaris 10

I am having a problem to start the HTTP Server on Solaris 10 (I am installing HTTP Server as part of HTMLDB installation on Solaris 10).
I had a problem to install it at first, however I've found on 'AskTom' that unsetting ORA_NLS33 helps and it did. Now I can't start the HTTP server and I've found on metalink that 'HTTP Server is not currently supported with Solaris 10, this is targeted for Q2CY05'.
Has this been fixed yet?
Thank you for your time.
DanielD

Hi james,
I have checked the log file but i am unable to find what to do next.
I am giving the small piece of content of the log file. The following messages are repeating again and again...
Log content:-
07/09/23 17:20:36 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:22:26 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:22:30 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:24:40 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:24:44 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:26:36 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:26:42 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:28:57 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
07/09/23 17:29:01 Start process
/dev011/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd

Several mysterious problems with Solaris 11 x86 install

Hi folks,
I've recently installed Solaris 11 x86 as a replacement for Solaris 9 SPARC on an Ultra 2 machine. I like the operating system, but I've promptly acquired some mysterious problems. The computer is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E2500 with a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, an 80 GB SATA disk and a 147 GB SCSI disk.
I have had a few occasions on which the screen goes totally blank, the monitor claims that there is no signal, and I have to restart the machine. However, with the blank screen, the hard drive activity light is sometimes still flashing. This happens predictably when I try to log off (as opposed to shutting down) and when I use Totem media player and click on anything inside the Totem window. The motherboard has built-in graphics and brief specifications can be found here:
http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/professionalpc/ESPRIMO/Datasheets/ds_esprimo_edition_e2500.pdf
Yesterday my PS/2 keyboard started causing the motherboard to beep crazily when I use it. It beeps rapidly 4 times, then prints the expected character. However, the problem doesn't occur at the initial log in screen. The mouse cursor has also gone beserk on one occasion, flying all over the screen (I had this problem with a previous PC, but a different OS, and thought it was a hardware fault, which I why I got this new computer). With the keyboard problem, the machine is basically unusable. However, it is configured as a dual boot machine, and the keyboard problem isn't present with Windows XP.
There are also a few smaller, odd problems. Occasionally all the icons vanish from my Gnome desktop. The command prompt also mysteriously changed from $chris@pluto to $bash-4.1 just before the keyboard problem appeared, although that might have had something to do with me copying my home directory to a different disk and editing the /etc/auto_home file (moving the home directory worked fine). Also, unlike with Solaris 9 SPARC, I find that I have to have external SCSI devices switched on at boot time, should I want to use them later. That's a pain. With Solaris 9, I could run "boot -r" when I first attached the device, then switch on the SCSI devices and mount them whenever I wanted.
After the useful advice I received here about "more" and "less", I thought I'd post these problems and see if anyone can help. I'd really appreciate some advice. Can anyone identify likely causes for these problems? Which problems can I expect to solve and which do I have to live with?
Many thanks,
Chris Tidy
Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

Hi folks,
I've recently installed Solaris 11 x86 as a replacement for Solaris 9 SPARC on an Ultra 2 machine. I like the operating system, but I've promptly acquired some mysterious problems. The computer is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E2500 with a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, an 80 GB SATA disk and a 147 GB SCSI disk.
I have had a few occasions on which the screen goes totally blank, the monitor claims that there is no signal, and I have to restart the machine. However, with the blank screen, the hard drive activity light is sometimes still flashing. This happens predictably when I try to log off (as opposed to shutting down) and when I use Totem media player and click on anything inside the Totem window. The motherboard has built-in graphics and brief specifications can be found here:
http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/professionalpc/ESPRIMO/Datasheets/ds_esprimo_edition_e2500.pdf
Yesterday my PS/2 keyboard started causing the motherboard to beep crazily when I use it. It beeps rapidly 4 times, then prints the expected character. However, the problem doesn't occur at the initial log in screen. The mouse cursor has also gone beserk on one occasion, flying all over the screen (I had this problem with a previous PC, but a different OS, and thought it was a hardware fault, which I why I got this new computer). With the keyboard problem, the machine is basically unusable. However, it is configured as a dual boot machine, and the keyboard problem isn't present with Windows XP.
There are also a few smaller, odd problems. Occasionally all the icons vanish from my Gnome desktop. The command prompt also mysteriously changed from $chris@pluto to $bash-4.1 just before the keyboard problem appeared, although that might have had something to do with me copying my home directory to a different disk and editing the /etc/auto_home file (moving the home directory worked fine). Also, unlike with Solaris 9 SPARC, I find that I have to have external SCSI devices switched on at boot time, should I want to use them later. That's a pain. With Solaris 9, I could run "boot -r" when I first attached the device, then switch on the SCSI devices and mount them whenever I wanted.
After the useful advice I received here about "more" and "less", I thought I'd post these problems and see if anyone can help. I'd really appreciate some advice. Can anyone identify likely causes for these problems? Which problems can I expect to solve and which do I have to live with?
Many thanks,
Chris Tidy
Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

Hardware Compatibilities with Solaris 10

Plase, in the company, we have several equipments, like Sun Blade 1000, Sun Blade 2000, Sun Blade2500, Sun Ultra 80 and Sun Ultra 60, I would like to know if all of this models could work with Solaris 10. Thanks for your help.

Yes, for all of the above.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/specs.jsp

Sun DS 5.2 p3 with Solaris 10

I've been trying to test out using LDAP to replace NIS.
My setup is a Sun Sparc box with Solaris 10 running
Sun One Directory 5.2 patch level 3. I have two x86_64 client
machines; one running Red Hat 4 and the other Solaris 10.
I have been able to authenticate on the RH 4 machine
with no problems, but have been unable to on the
Solaris 10 machine. I'm using Sun's native LDAP
client tools.
I've tried configuring the DS for anonymous access
to proxy access with simple authentication, but neither
one seems to matter.
I've copied over the pam.conf example provided by Sun
today, but it still doesn't seem to work. I can do a
"getent passwd" on the RH 4 and get all the local accounts
and the test one in the LDAP server. If I try that on the
Sun box I only get the local accounts, however if I
do a "getent password testuser" on the Solaris 10 box,
then I get the right account info. It looks like I can even
see the passwords, which are stored using md5; not
crypt, if that matters.
I'm tried searching for more info, but it doesn't appear
that DS 5.2 has been used too much on Solaris 10;
nor does Gary Tay's great documentation cover
Solaris 10. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
I can't believe it would be this hard to set LDAP up
with just Sun software.

See related posts:
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2005-August/006688.html
1) make sure /etc/nsswitch.conf has this entry in it:
ipnodes: files
2) must run these commands as root:
crle -u -s /usr/lib/mps
crle -64 -u -s /usr/lib/mps/64
Other than that I didn't need to do anything different than solaris 9.
I did have to run this command on occasion though:
svcadm enable svc:/network/ldap/client:defaulthttp://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=271&threadID=25523
Gary

Does HP Proliant DL380 G4 work with Solaris 10?

Hi everybody!!!
I�d like to know if anybody made HP Proliant DL380 G4 work with solaris 10.
I didn�t find this server in HCL for solaris 10.
has anybody tried to install solaris 10 on this server?
tnx very much
regards
The player

I've tried. The biggest stumbling block is the RAID controller if you are using one. I was using a Smart Array 5300 but couldn't find a driver. As memory serves me, and it was a year ago on a G3 with version 9, you need to use the second or third ( I forget) CD for Solaris and not the first to set it up and you need a startup diskette (my name for it, Sun calls it somethig else) with the array driver on it. It was a real pain especially when my version of Red Hat Liniux found the controller right off the bat and installed nicely with NO errors. I think Sun's clunky installation needs some work to make it work better. Maybe Solaris 10 is different.

Problems with Solaris 10 + mod_wl_20

Hello all,
I've been trying to get apache 2.0.58 that's shipped with Solaris 10 (Sparc) with mod_wl_20 from Weblogic 8.1 SP6 with not much luck.
Every time I try connect to a mapped application via Apache+weblogic_mod I keep getting 404, it seems like the plugin isn't even being invoked, as apaches logs keep saying:
File does not exist: /var/apache2/htdocs/examplesWebApp
I copied over mod_wl_20.so from WEBLOGIC_HOME/server/lib/solaris and put it on the solaris box with apache in the libexec directory.
My httpd.conf is basically a copy of the httpd.conf-example with the following entries:
LoadModule weblogic_module libexec/mod_wl_20.so
<Location /examplesWebApp>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
WebLogicHost 192.168.10.120
WebLogicPort 7001
Debug ON
WLLogFile /tmp/test.log
DebugConfigInfo On
</Location>
Strange thing, the /tmp/test.log file gets created, but no logging dumped there.
If I connect to the Weblogic Server host, via port 7001 the examplesWebApp works just fine.
Have I missed something? - is the version of Apache2 that comes with solaris 10 okay?
Thanks for help in advanced.
_rob

Hi haili,
Thanks for the reply, I've modified my entry in httpd.conf to
<Location /examplesWebApp>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
WebLogicHost 192.168.10.120
WebLogicPort 7001
Debug ALL
WLLogFile /tmp/weblogic.log
WLTempDir /tmp
DebugConfigInfo ON
</Location>
The log file /tmp/weblogic.log is no longer been created.
Has anyone got it to work with the standard apache 2.0.58 shipped with solaris 10?
Thanks,
_rob

Solaris 8 client setup with solaris 9 ldap

I have managed to install iplanet directory server 5.1 that comes with solaris 9 using the utility idsconfig. As far as i can tell, all went well. Now i'm trying to initialize a solaris 8 client to authenticate to the iDS 5.1 on my solaris 9 box. What do i have to do on the solaris 8 client to "initialize it"? I've tried using ldapclient on the solaris 8 client as follows:
# ldapclient -v -P default x.x.x.x
but i keep getting the following errors:
findDN rename(/var/ldap/ldap_client_file.orig, /var/ldap/ldap_client_file) failed!
findDN rename(/var/ldap/ldap_client_cred.orig, /var/ldap/ldap_client_cred) failed!
There are no files in /var/ldap. I thought that one uses ldapclient to create them. Am i wrong?
Also, the output from idsconfig says that a 'NisDomainObject' was added to my domain but looking at the object classes in iDS5.1, there is no nisdomainobject.
I also noticed that when i run the command domain on my solaris 8 box, there's no output. Do i need to set the domain on my solaris 8 client? I have the domain defined in /etc/resolv.conf.
Stewart

hi Stewart,
You may find what you are looking for in the following technical note: http://knowledgebase.iplanet.com/ikb/kb/articles/7966.html
It is called: "Cookbook for Solaris 8 client with Directory Server 5.1/Solaris 9" :-)
Hope this will help you.
Cheers / Damien.

Network connectivity on Sparc with Solaris 8

Hello friends,
I have a Sparc Ultra 5 machine with Solaris 8 .
Now I want to establish network connectivity by configuring net work card in it.also I want to establish connectivity with Intel Systems also.How can I accomplish this.
I will be grateful to you if u cud guide me in this.
Thank u in anticipation
sreerama

I think the V20z have an ordinary broadcom chipset, if so the network interface should be called bgeX.
So try:
ifconfig bge0 plumb
.. dont forget your /etc/hostname.bge0 file..
7/M.

Smbmount with solaris 10

I want to mount an ntfs share.
in solaris 10 :
a) mount -F smbfs gives an error (smbfs doesn't seems to be known)
b) I didn't find the command smbmount under /usr/sfw
any idea or answer ?
Thanks

smbmount is not available with Solaris (or any OS other than Linux). I use Sharity light (free) at
http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/
See my FAQ for details and other alternatives
http://sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html

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