Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 02/01/2008 03:35:34 PM:
> Much of the doc out there is for earlier releases (I'm running SLES10) > and there is no real step by step information out there to add FCP to an > existing Linux Virtual Server. > The FCP Redbooks and NPIV Redbooks make some sign cant assumptions on > the level of knowledge that we have. So for example: > > I'm attaching to a EMC Clarion in my test environment. > I had to sign into the switch before they could finish the masking, but > when using yast it insisted on knowing ALL the details of the FCP > connection before I could proceed. By experimentation I found that if I > used the zfcp_host_configure command to set the VM device on line it > signed me in and out of the switch. > > Then there was more time spent trying to find commands to show what I > could see and where they were all located. Some of the things I came > across like san_disc showed up but with no examples to go by I couldn't > work out what it was asking for or the appropriate entries. Other > commands I came across like lsscsi, lszfcp are mentioned in differing > presentations scattered around the web. These commands are documented in the device drivers document. There are even examples :) Use developer works to get a copy: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/october2005_documentation.html Ray Higgs System z FCP Development Bld. 706, B24 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
