{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-29T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:41","slug":"installing-equalogic-san-on-ibm-aix-52-ml7-and-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Installing Equallogic SAN on IBM AIX 5.2 ML7 and above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how I installed the Equallogic SAN on an IBM eSeries server with AIX 5.2 ML9. AIX maintenance level 7 and above has native iSCSI drivers. Anything older then you will need to download the Cisco iSCSI drivers from Equalogic or Cisco\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>First create the volume on the SAN, this is pretty easy and intuitive with Equallogic and I will not dwell on that here.<\/p>\n<p>To check if the iSCSI driver is installed, go into SMIT, devices and you should see the iSCSI heading. Select iSCSI, iSCSI Protocol Device, and then Change \/ Show Characteristics. You will see the iSCSI initiator name.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"234x60_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p>To list all installed physical disk enter below command and you will see something similar. This is the before SAN picture.<br \/>\n<strong>lsdev -C -c disk<br \/>\n<\/strong>hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk3 Available 1S-08-00-11,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk4 Available 25-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk5 Available 25-08-01-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<\/p>\n<p>To enable and use the iSCSI volume as a hdisk device under AIX, it needs to be added to the targes file.<br \/>\n<strong>Edit \/etc\/iscsi\/targets and add the following line:<br \/>\n10.10.24.50 3260 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-594956401-a94000003e0460<br \/>\n92-iscsi-production<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Replace the IP 10.10.24.50 with your SAN group IP, the default SAN port is 3260, IQN name begins with iqn. you can get this from your SAN configuration.<\/p>\n<p>To process the targets file and initialize the iSCSI device you can reboot the server or run the following cfgmgr command (no reboot required).<\/p>\n<p><strong>cfgmgr -l iscsi0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If everything works, \u2018lsdev -C c disk\u2019 should show the SAN disks such as:<br \/>\n<strong>lsdev -Ccdisk<br \/>\n<\/strong>hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk3 Available 1S-08-00-11,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk4 Available 25-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\nhdisk5 Available 25-08-01-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive<br \/>\n<strong>hdisk6 Available Other iSCSI Disk Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Viola, the SAN volume has been installed as a physical disk in AIX. Now you simply have to create the volume group, create logical volume and create the filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>I also recommend tweaking the network card and TCP\/IP packets for optimal SAN performance. I will explain that after I have completed it on my AIX server, I am still waiting for the order of two 1G NICs. I am planning on turning on jumbo frame complete with fault tolerent NIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how I installed the Equallogic SAN on an IBM eSeries server with AIX 5.2 ML9. AIX maintenance level 7 and above has native iSCSI drivers. Anything older then you will need to download the Cisco iSCSI drivers from&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=22\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}