[UniMacTech] connecting a SUN (Storagetech) SAN to an xserve via fibre channel?

[Mark Secker]

we have a Sun StorageTech SAN that is managed by a Sun server.

the administrator of this server has allocated a area of the SAN as a  
(unformated) partition for our xServe to use as a volume.

be that as it may according to our unix system admin  plugging the  
fibre channel cable in to the xServe and the other end in to the  
StorageTech SAN should result in the xServe detecting the partition as  
an unformatted disk (much the same way that plugging in an unformatted  
FireWire disk does).
however I'm not seeing this nor am I seeing a disk partition preenting  
it's self in Disk Utilities.

any ideas? suggestions?


plugging the Apple supplied fibre channel cable in to the SAN.....

I get the following on the xServe's Fibre Channel system preferences  
using automatic:

Port 0, link established
a wwnn: 20:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7C
and a wwpn: 10:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7C


Port 1, no link established
and  wwnn: 20:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7D
and a wwpn: 10:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7D



going in to system profiler I get the following:



Fibre Channel Domain 0:

Vendor:	LSILogic
   Product:	LSI7204EP
   Revision:	Firmware 1.3.20.0
   Bus:	PCI
   Slot:	Slot-1
   Initiator Identifier:	126
   Node World Wide Name:	20:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7D
   Port World Wide Name:	10:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7D
   Description:	Port 1
   Speed:	Automatic
   Topology:	Point-to-Point
   Status:	No Link Established


Fibre Channel Domain 1:

   Vendor:	LSILogic
   Product:	LSI7204EP
   Revision:	Firmware 1.3.20.0
   Bus:	PCI
   Slot:	Slot-1
   Initiator Identifier:	126
   Node World Wide Name:	20:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7C
   Port World Wide Name:	10:00:00:06:2B:13:BC:7C
   Address Identifier:	00:00:EF
   Description:	Port 0
   Speed:	Automatic (4 Gigabit)
   Topology:	Automatic (Arbitrated Loop)
   Status:	Link Established
   Cable Type:	Active Copper


which is interesting port numbers don't correspond to fibre channel  
domains (using the NNWN and PWWN then port 0 = domain 1 and port 1 =  
domain 0..... did some one head hunted from Microsoft write this part?)




the info from the storage tech's config page is as follows
Name: B
ID: Tray.85.Controller.B
Mode: Active
Quiesced: False
Status: Optimal
Drive Interface: SAS
Cache Memory (MB): 340
Manufacturer: SUN
Serial Number: SX73403851
Host Board Type: 2-port Fibre Channel
Host Board Status: Optimal

Definition of the Volume to use for the Mac (LUN 11)

Details
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  Name: MacSAN1
World Wide Name: 60:0A:0B:80:00:38:B2:3A:00:00:06:6C:48:6D:2C:C0
Type: Standard
Capacity: 1.464 TB
Virtual Disk: 2
Pool:  Biz Pool 1 Mac
RAID Level: 5
Segment Size: 512 KB
Read Ahead Enabled: True
Write Cache Enabled: True
Write Cache With Replication Enabled:  True
Write Cache Without Batteries Enabled:  False
Flush Cache After: 10 s
Disk Scrubbing Enabled: True
The setting will not take effect until disk scrubbing is enabled at  
the array level.
Disk Scrubbing With Redundancy Enabled: False
The setting will not take effect until disk scrubbing is enabled at  
the array level.
State: Mapped
Condition: Optimal
Status: Online
Action:Ready
Preferred Controller:B
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  Owning Controller:
  B
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  Modification Priority: High

   Array management sees a "connection" on B/2

Port Summary on Storage System bits-san1

Ports (4)
Name		Controller		Link Status		Type		Speed		WWN

A/1				A			Up 
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			FC			4 Gbps		20:04:00:A0:B8:38:B2:3B

A/2				A			Up 
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			FC			4 Gbps		20:04:00:A0:B8:38:B2:3C

B/1				B			Up				FC			4 Gbps		20:05:00:A0:B8:38:B2:3B

B/2				B			Up				FC			4 Gbps		20:05:00:A0:B8:38:B2:3C

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Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU)
User Support Officer & Laboratory Manager
Business School IT Services

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