We had given up on trying to get the EMC Clariion provisioned to SLES10
using NPIV.  The NPIV id for the linux guest is logged into the switch and
is provisioned to EMC DMX3 storage, so we know the connection to the switch
is working.  On the Clariion side we can't provision for the NPIV
connection, as if the NPIV id was not logged into the switch.

So, are you using NPIV with the connections to the EMC Clariion and if so,
do you have any other tips from your experience that might help us get this
to work?

Craig Collins
State of WI

On Feb 1, 2008 2:35 PM, Jerry Whitteridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> If this mailing list and the z/VM one did not exist my project would
> have failed totally.
>
> (Thank you ALL !)
>
> Jerry Whitteridge
> Safeway Inc
> 925 951 4184
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Mark Post
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:56 AM
> > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: Re: zFCP Disk
> >
> > >>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at  2:43 PM, in message
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > , "Spann,
> > Elizebeth (Betsie)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -snip-
> > > I was able to get multipathing working, I believe, using DM-MPIO.
> > > My challenge is getting LVM2 working in a multipath
> > environment.  The
> > > /etc/multipath.conf and /etc/lvm/lvm.conf files have to be
> > configured
> > > correctly.
> > > Anybody out there doing this?
> >
> > Yes, a number of people have done it, and there's some decent
> > documentation for it as well.
> >
> >
> > Mark Post
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