Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Adding new disks to Solaris

How to configure just newly added disks in Solaris 10? It's really simple.



// first show all attached targets

bash-3.00# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
c1                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c1::200500a0b8169d18           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1::5006016008065109           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c2::200400a0b8169d18           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::5006016108065109           disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
c2::5006016908065109           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::500604843d489c84           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
bash-3.00#

// now I attached SCSI JBOD to c3 - let's configure them

bash-3.00# cfgadm -c configure c3
bash-3.00# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
c1                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c1::200500a0b8169d18           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1::5006016008065109           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c2::200400a0b8169d18           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::5006016108065109           disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
c2::5006016908065109           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::500604843d489c84           disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t8d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t9d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t10d0                disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t11d0                disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t12d0                disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t13d0                disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t14d0                disk         connected    configured   unknown
bash-3.00#

// that's it
// simple and easy!

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 October, 2006 02:06

    you say:
    // now I attached SCSI JBOD

    I think this is the part I have trouble with.

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  2. Anonymous11 May, 2007 02:07

    Thanks! man -k was getting me nowhere.

    Tony

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  3. Anonymous23 May, 2007 23:04

    Excellent information. This is the command I needed to get my external SAS subsystem to show up correctly!! Thanks!!

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  4. Anonymous27 June, 2009 07:21

    This is not working for me..

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