Plugging HP-UX into SAN

Our task for today is to connect HP-UX (11.31 release) to MSA2312fc through SAN with two Brocade switches in between. First, we need to find out all FC cards installed in our server and once we have that piece of information we could dig for WWN numbers to map them latter to the disk array.

Lets start from the beginning, ioscan is our best friend in revealing inner life of our server:

bash-4.0# ioscan -funC fc
Class     I  H/W Path     Driver S/W State   H/W Type     Description
===================================================================
fc        0  0/3/0/0/0/0  fcd   CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP 4Gb Dual Port PCIe Fibre Channel Mezzanine (FC Port 1)
                         /dev/fcd0
fc        1  0/3/0/0/0/1  fcd   CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP 4Gb Dual Port PCIe Fibre Channel Mezzanine (FC Port 2)
                         /dev/fcd1

The output above says everything we need to know. So now, I’m going to use fcmsutil to display WWN information from our cards:

bash-4.0# fcmsutil /dev/fcd0

                           Vendor ID is = 0x1077
                           Device ID is = 0x2432
            PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x103C
                   PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x1705
                               PCI Mode = PCI Express x4
                       ISP Code version = 4.2.2
                       ISP Chip version = 3
                               Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
                             Link Speed = 4Gb
                     Local N_Port_id is = 0x020b01
                  Previous N_Port_id is = None
            N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x5001438004c2e159
            N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x5001438004c2e158
            Switch Port World Wide Name = 0x200b00051e868762
            Switch Node World Wide Name = 0x100000051e868762
            N_Port Symbolic Port Name = oamdwh1_fcd0
            N_Port Symbolic Node Name = oamdwh1_HP-UX_B.11.31
                           Driver state = ONLINE
                       Hardware Path is = 0/3/0/0/0/0
                     Maximum Frame Size = 2048
         Driver-Firmware Dump Available = NO
         Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = N/A
                         Driver Version = @(#) fcd B.11.31.0803 Jan 20 2008

bash-4.0#
bash-4.0# fcmsutil /dev/fcd1

                           Vendor ID is = 0x1077
                           Device ID is = 0x2432
            PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x103C
                   PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x1705
                               PCI Mode = PCI Express x4
                       ISP Code version = 4.2.2
                       ISP Chip version = 3
                               Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
                             Link Speed = 4Gb
                     Local N_Port_id is = 0x010b01
                  Previous N_Port_id is = None
            N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x5001438004c2e15b
          N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x5001438004c2e15a
            Switch Port World Wide Name = 0x200b00051e855e8b
            Switch Node World Wide Name = 0x100000051e855e8b
            N_Port Symbolic Port Name = oamdwh1_fcd1
            N_Port Symbolic Node Name = oamdwh1_HP-UX_B.11.31
                           Driver state = ONLINE
                       Hardware Path is = 0/3/0/0/0/1
                     Maximum Frame Size = 2048
         Driver-Firmware Dump Available = NO
         Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = N/A
                         Driver Version = @(#) fcd B.11.31.0803 Jan 20 2008

Using this information we could proceed with zone configuration on FC switches.

alicreate "hpux_fcd1", "50:01:43:80:04:c2:e1:5a"
alicreate "MSA2312_A1", "20:70:00:c0:ff:d8:bb:a4"
zonecreate "hpux_msa2312", "hpux_fcd1;MSA2312_A1"
cfgadd "HPUX_cfg" "hpux_msa2312"

For brevity I omitted the steps required to configure the second switch since they are almost the same. The only difference is the aliases’, zones’ names and WWN numbers.

Don’t forget to save and enable newly created configuration on the switch:

cfgsave HPUX_cfg
cfgenable HPUX_cfg

All that we have to do next, apart from creating and mapping LUNs on our storage, is to tell the system to scan for new disks and to create special files for them:

# insf -C disk

To double check that new disks have been successfully added do the following:

# ioscan -m dsf
Persistent DSF           Legacy DSF(s)
========================================
/dev/rdisk/disk1         /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
/dev/rdisk/disk1_p1      /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1
/dev/rdisk/disk1_p2      /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
/dev/rdisk/disk1_p3      /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
/dev/pt/pt4              /dev/rscsi/c3t0d0
/dev/pt/pt5              /dev/rscsi/c2t0d0
/dev/rdisk/disk6         /dev/rdsk/c4t0d1
                         /dev/rdsk/c5t0d1

/dev/rdisk/disk6 is our new lovely friend. To confirm that, use scsimgr command:

# scsimgr inquiry -D /dev/rdisk/disk6

           INQUIRY INFORMATION FOR LUN: /dev/rdisk/disk6

                Peripheral Device Type: 0 (Direct Access)
                  Peripheral Qualifier: 0 (Peripheral Device Connected)
                       Removable Media: No
                          ANSI Version: 5 (Complies to SPC-3)
                    Normal ACA Support: No
                  Hierarchical Support: 0x1 (Hierarchical addressing model used)
                  Response Data Format: 2 (SPC-3)
                     Additional Length: 155
                           SCC Support: 0 (No Embedded Storage Array Controller)
           Access Controls Coordinator: No
             Target Port Group Support: 0x1 (Implicit Asymmetric Access Support)
                      Third-Party Copy: No
                               Protect: 0 (Protection Information NOT Supported)
                         Basic Queuing: 0
                       Command Queuing: 0x1 (Full Task Management Model (SAM-3))
                    Enclosure Services: No
             Multi-port Device Support: Yes
                Medium Changer Support: No
   Supports 16-bit wide SCSI addresses: No
          Support for 16 Bit Transfers: No
            Synchronous Data Transfers: No
                Linked Command Support: No
                 Vendor Identification: "HP      "
                Product Identification: "MSA2312fc       "
                Product Revision Level: "M110"
                  Vendor Specific Data: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 "        "
                                        43 41 50 49 20 20 41 41 "CAPI  AA"
                                        66 20 20 20             "f   "
                              Clocking: 0 (Supports only ST)
 Quick Arbitration & Selection support: No
    Information Unit transfers Support: No

Finally, when you decide to create LVM configuration on top of newly added disk don’t use legacy DSF, all those c#t#d#, but use persistent DSF instead, i.e. /dev/rdisk/disk6 and HP-UX will deal with multipathing on its own:

# scsimgr lun_map -D /dev/rdisk/disk6

        LUN PATH INFORMATION FOR LUN : /dev/rdisk/disk6

Total number of LUN paths     = 2
World Wide Identifier(WWID)    = 0x600c0ff000d8d17c1b1bf84a01000000

LUN path : lunpath4
Class                         = lunpath
Instance                      = 4
Hardware path                 = 0/3/0/0/0/0.0x247000c0ffd8bba4.0x4001000000000000
SCSI transport protocol       = fibre_channel
State                         = STANDBY
Last Open or Close state      = STANDBY

LUN path : lunpath5
Class                         = lunpath
Instance                      = 5
Hardware path                 = 0/3/0/0/0/1.0x207000c0ffd8bba4.0x4001000000000000
SCSI transport protocol       = fibre_channel
State                         = ACTIVE
Last Open or Close state      = ACTIVE

Enjoy.