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How to label EMC Devices in Solaris Server..?
Hi all,
I want to know how to label EMC Symmetrix devices after allocating to Solaris Server.As shown below devices 4,5,6 are appearing in 68 GB format,where as devices 1,2,3 are appearing in cylinders format.
1. emcpower24a
/pseudo/emcp@24
2. emcpower25a
/pseudo/emcp@25
3. emcpower26a
/pseudo/emcp@26
4. emcpower27a
/pseudo/emcp@27
5. emcpower28b
/pseudo/emcp@28
6. emcpower29a
how to convert from cylinders format to GB format..?
Thanks in Advance.
Avinash V
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July 15th, 2013 07:00
# format -e
Select the disk number
> label
> and selected 1
[1] EFI Label
Hope this help you
Fenglin1
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July 15th, 2013 00:00
Cylinder in DMX is 960KB, you can convert cylinder to GB manually by using "GB = Cylinders * 15 * 128 * 512 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024"
BTW, regarding the output you pasted, which command you used in Solaris?
Avinash V
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July 15th, 2013 00:00
Hi,
You have done an EFI label due to which you see the size in GB i.e you have used format -e ( and selected "[1] EFI Label")
Hope this helps !!
atyam_storage
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July 15th, 2013 01:00
Normally i will label devices with "format" Command without giving any parameters .And am seeing EMC Devices in Solaris 10 Server in cylinder format as shown below.
emcpower75a
/pseudo/emcp@75.
But i want to see EMC Devices in Solaris server in GB format as shown below
emcpower70a
/pseudo/emcp@70
so let me know what are the commands i have to fire in solaris 10 server ,so that devices will appear in GB format.
Thanks in Advance.
atyam_storage
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July 15th, 2013 02:00
echo | format
will give the entire devices(internal & external) list what are assigned to Solaris Server.
pravin_majhi
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July 15th, 2013 06:00
If 1 cyl is 960KB then why not just multiply #of cyls with 960KB? then divide by 1024/1024 to get GB. As many of you might know that a cyl is basically made up of 15 tracks, each track consists 8 sectors, and each sector is of 8 KB in DMX3 onwards.