Solaris 10 x86 U5, QLE2462 and Powerpath 5.2

Question

I am trying to install powerpath successfully on a Dell PE1950 (dual quad-core xeon's). It has a Qlogic QLE2462 dual port fibre adapter and I have installed Solaris 10 x86/64. from the operating system commands (eg. luxadm probe and cfgadm -al ) I can see the CX3-20 San , however, after i install powerpath (5.2) I can't see the hba's or paths with the powerpath commands. Whats worse is, if I reboot, the grub loader comes up, screen goes blank to start the kernel load and the system just hangs...off into never land....help... i have followed all the instructions, tried the qlogic drivers instead of the sun ones... hmmmm ..as I said help...

Conor · Answer

From looking at E-Lab it seems the Dell PE1950 is not a supported model of server. EMC only qualified Sun Servers for the release of Solaris10 x86 attached to CX3-20c.

Back to your issue; Before PowerPath is installed, can you see DGC devices from the output of 'format'?

wisey107 · Answer

yes...

Conor · Answer

ah the weather is wet as usual

What about initiator settings on the CLARiiON for your Sun HBA's, did you change the failover mode to 1 (or 4 for ALUA behaviour on a CLARiiON with FLARE26+)
Is Veritas VM installed? What version?

Conor

wisey107 · Answer

and all the sun badged products are amd based 64 bit cpu's ... i think this is the problem the installer see's 64bit and tries to use the amd 64 bit drivers ... just a gut feeling..hows the weather in ireland??

wisey107 · Answer

I'll try the failover settings this morning.. I haven't got any veritas volume manager installed..

doof1 · Answer

Hi wisey107 do you find what was your problem ? i have the same one :/

Conor · Answer

Hi Wisey - any update for us regarding your issues with PowerPath install on Solaris 10?Please report back if you got this resolved.Conor

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