Справочник Пользователя для IBM DS4000 FC

IBM

Note:

Remember,

the

drive

letter

must

be

mapped

to

the

root

of

the

NetWare

SYS

volume.

5.

When

you

are

prompted

to

enable

the

QLogic

failover

configuration,

do

not

enable

it.

(IBM

recommends

the

use

of

the

RDAC

multipath

driver

as

the

DS4000

LUN

failover/failback

driver,

in

a

Microsoft

Windows

environment

or

the

Novell

NetWare

native

multipath

device

driver

in

a

NetWare

environment.)

The

following

are

known

limitations.

v

The

DS4000

storage

products

do

not

support

the

use

of

SANSurfer

to

configure

failover

and

failback

paths

or

IO

load

balancing

for

the

DS4000

storage

subsystem

logical

drives

(LUNs)

using

the

QLogic

failover

version

(QLDirect)

of

the

FC

HBA

device

driver

in

Microsoft

Windows

environments.

IBM

only

supports

the

use

of

DS4000

RDAC

multipath

device

driver

in

conjunction

with

the

non-failover

version

of

the

QLogic

FC

HBA

device

driver.

v

The

DS4000

storage

products

do

not

support

the

use

of

LUN

masking

or

HBA

configuration

wizard/functions;

neither

do

the

DS4000

storage

products

support

non-Fibre

Channel

HBA

functions,

such

as

QLogic

SANSwitch

or

iSCSI

HBA

functions.

v

The

QLogic

SANSurfer

Pro

Utility

program

(formerly

known

as

IBM

FAStT

MSJ

program)

must

not

be

left

installed

on

X64

servers

with

Microsoft

Windows

Server

2003

64-Bit

edition,

while

the

servers

are

running

IOs

to

DS4000

storage

subsystems.

Install

the

QLogic

SANSurfer

®

Pro

Utility

program

if

you

need

to

perform

FC

HBA

updates

or

diagnostics;

then,

uninstall

it

immediately

after

you

have

completed

these

tasks.

v

There

is

no

64-Bit

version

of

the

QLogic

SANSurfer

Pro

Utility

program

(formerly

known

as

FAStT

MSJ)

for

Windows

Server

2003

IA64

or

x64

editions.

You

must

use

the

32-Bit

version

of

the

QLogic

SANSurfer

Pro

Utility

program

for

the

Windows

Server

2003

64-Bit

edition.

Uninstall

the

QLogic

SANSurfer

Pro

Utility

program

when

the

diagnostics

are

complete;

otherwise,

the

program

could

cause

the

server

to

crash

in

heavy

IO

loads.

Note:

For

information

about

other

possible

program

limitations,

please

see

the

README

file.

If

you

have

questions

about

installing

the

QLogic

SANsurfer

Pro

Utility,

please

see

the

README

file,

which

may

have

a

name,

for

example,

like

readme_SANsurfer_FAStMSJ_win32_NW.txt.

Installing

on

the

Linux

platform

Note:

If

SANSurfer

is

already

installed,

uninstall

it

prior

to

installing

a

new

copy.

GUI

installation

To

perform

the

SANSurfer

Pro

Utility

installation

on

a

Linux

platform,

you

must

execute

four

steps.

1.

Open

a

shell

(command

prompt),

and

change

to

the

directory

that

contains

the

installation

file,

which

might

for

example,

be

named

sansurfer2.0.30b62_linux_install-i.bin.

2.

At

the

prompt,

type

the

command

to

start

the

program

installation

wizard.

sh

./program_name

where,

program_name

is

sansurfer2.0.30b62_linux_install-i.bin

Chapter

2.

Installing

the

FC

4Gbps

PCI-X

Adapter

device

drivers

and

updating

the

BIOS

code

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