Linux for zSeries : fibre channel protocol implementation guide / / [Gregory Geiselhart ... et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Poughkeepsie, NY, : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 268 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 005.4/32
• Soggetto topico: Operating systems (Computers); Fibre Channel (Standard)
• Altri autori: GeiselhartGregory
• Note generali: "August 2004."; "SG24-6344-00."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Fibre Channel Protocol concepts -- 1.1 FCP support -- 1.2 FCP topologies -- 1.2.1 Point-to-point -- 1.2.2 Arbitrated loop -- 1.2.3 Switched fabric -- 1.2.4 Supported topologies -- 1.3 FCP terminology -- 1.3.1 Node -- 1.3.2 Port -- 1.3.3 Link -- 1.3.4 Worldwide names -- 1.4 FCP access control -- 1.4.1 LUN masking -- 1.4.2 Zoning -- 1.5 FCP considerations and limitations -- 1.5.1 Channel sharing -- 1.5.2 Device sharing -- 1.5.3 Supported devices -- Chapter 2. Accessing FCP devices from Linux guests -- 2.1 Addressing concepts for FCP-attached SCSI -- 2.1.1 SCSI addresses -- 2.1.2 zSeries device numbers -- 2.1.3 zSeries hardware addresses -- 2.2 FCP addresses -- 2.3 Linux device names -- 2.3.1 Linux SCSI support -- 2.3.2 Mapping points -- 2.4 Linux FCP mapping -- 2.4.1 Device number -- 2.4.2 Target number -- 2.4.3 WWPN -- 2.4.4 Linux LUN -- 2.4.5 SAN device LUN -- 2.4.6 Map entry ordering -- 2.4.7 Syntax rules -- 2.5 The zfcp device driver -- 2.5.1 Loading the driver -- 2.5.2 Adding a device mapping -- 2.5.3 Attaching LUNs to the SCSI subsystem -- 2.5.4 Device mapping by example -- 2.5.5 The /proc/scsi directory structure -- 2.6 SCSI IPL feature -- 2.6.1 IPL Linux from SCSI disk in an LPAR -- 2.6.2 IPL Linux from SCSI disk in a VM guest -- 2.6.3 The CP SET LOADDEV command -- 2.6.4 The LOADDEV user directory statement -- 2.6.5 Dumping to a SCSI disk -- 2.7 Multipathing concepts -- 2.7.1 Multipathing with FICON -- 2.7.2 Multipathing with FCP -- Chapter 3. Configuring zSeries to use Fibre Channel Protocol -- 3.1 Prerequisites for FCP support -- 3.1.1 Software requirements -- 3.1.2 Hardware requirements -- 3.1.3 Fiber implementation options -- 3.1.4 Connector types -- 3.1.5 Distances. ; 3.2 Enabling the SCSI IPL feature -- 3.3 Defining an FCP channel to zSeries -- 3.4 Configuring IBM Enterprise Storage Server -- 3.4.1 Modifying the host systems -- 3.4.2 Configuring the host adapter ports -- 3.4.3 Configuring the disk groups -- 3.4.4 Adding volumes to the host system -- 3.4.5 Determining the disk LUN numbers -- Chapter 4. Installing SUSE SLES8 on FCP-attached SCSI -- 4.1 Installation overview -- 4.2 Preparing the z/VM Linux guest -- 4.2.1 Defining the Linux virtual machine -- 4.2.2 Checking the status of the FCP device -- 4.2.3 Transferring the Linux installation kernel -- 4.3 Performing installation configuration -- 4.3.1 IPL the SLES8 installation kernel -- 4.3.2 Configuring the network -- 4.3.3 Choosing the installation media -- 4.3.4 Selecting the installation terminal type -- 4.4 Preparing the FCP device -- 4.4.1 Loading the required device drivers -- 4.4.2 Partitioning the SCSI device -- 4.5 Continuing installation from YaST -- 4.5.1 Loading the DASD device driver -- 4.5.2 Completing YaST installation -- 4.6 Applying Service Pack 3 (SP3) -- 4.6.1 Invoking YaST from a chroot jail on the SCSI disk -- 4.6.2 Applying the SP3 system update to the SCSI disk installation -- 4.6.3 Completing installation to SCSI disk -- 4.7 IPL the Linux guest from SCSI disk -- 4.7.1 Providing the WWPN and LUN to the machine loader -- 4.7.2 IPL the Linux guest -- 4.8 Copying an existing SLES8 installation to FCP -- 4.8.1 Loading the SCSI device drivers -- 4.8.2 Preparing the SCSI disk -- 4.8.3 Copying SLES8 onto the SCSI disk -- 4.8.4 Configuring the bootable SCSI partition -- 4.8.5 Creating an initial ramdisk for IPL from SCSI -- 4.8.6 Preparing SCSI partition for IPL -- 4.8.7 IPL from the SCSI partition -- 4.9 IPL Linux in an LPAR from SCSI -- Chapter 5. Installing Red Hat RHEL 3 on FCP-attached SCSI -- 5.1 The Linux guest directory entry. ; 5.2 Installing RHEL 3 to ECKD DASD -- 5.2.1 Completing the installation -- 5.3 Copying the installed system to SCSI disk -- 5.3.1 Loading the FCP device driver -- 5.3.2 Preparing the SCSI disk -- 5.3.3 Copying the installation to SCSI disk. -- 5.3.4 Customizing the installation configuration files -- 5.3.5 Making the SCSI disk bootable -- 5.3.6 IPL the SCSI disk -- 5.4 Adding SCSI disks -- 5.4.1 Preparing configuration files and SCSI disk for the next boot -- 5.4.2 Adding LUNs without changing /etc/modules.conf -- 5.4.3 Defining the LUN mapping -- 5.4.4 Defining the LUNs to the SCSI stack -- 5.4.5 Mounting the devices -- 5.4.6 Automate the process at system initialization -- Chapter 6. Installing SUSE SLES9 on FCP-attached SCSI -- 6.1 The sysfs filesystem -- 6.2 Installing SLES9 directly onto FCP devices -- 6.3 Adding FCP disks to a SLES9 installation -- 6.3.1 Adding disks manually -- Chapter 7. Multipath FCP on Red Hat RHEL 3 -- 7.1 Red Hat RHEL 3 implementation -- 7.2 Configuring multipathing in Red Hat RHEL 3 -- 7.2.1 Creating an initial ramdisk -- 7.2.2 Point to the new initial ramdisk -- 7.2.3 Restart the Linux guest -- 7.2.4 Create SCSI device nodes -- 7.2.5 Partition the SCSI devices -- 7.2.6 Configuring mdadm to manage the device array -- 7.2.7 Creating a filesystem on the devices -- 7.2.8 Enable the RAID array on Linux startup -- 7.2.9 Mount the filesystems at startup -- 7.3 Using mdadm to administrate RAID arrays -- 7.3.1 Reporting failed paths -- 7.3.2 Reporting path recovery -- 7.3.3 Forcing a path into failed mode -- 7.3.4 Removing spare paths -- 7.3.5 Adding paths back into the array -- Chapter 8. Multipath FCP on SUSE SLES8 -- 8.1 Multipath implementation in SLES8 -- 8.2 Configuring multipathing in SLES8 -- 8.2.1 Creating an initial ramdisk -- 8.2.2 Point to the new initial ramdisk -- 8.2.3 Restart the Linux guest. ; 8.2.4 Partition the SCSI devices -- 8.2.5 Configure LVM to manage the devices -- 8.3 Using LVM tools to administrate RAID arrays -- Chapter 9. Multipath FCP on SUSE SLES9 -- 9.1 Multipath implementation in SLES9 -- 9.2 Configuring multipathing in SLES9 -- 9.2.1 Defining the FCP devices -- 9.2.2 Vary the FCP devices online -- 9.3 Managing multipath devices using EVMS -- 9.3.1 Start the EVMS management tool -- 9.3.2 Locate available objects -- 9.3.3 Locate EVMS segments -- 9.3.4 Add an EVMS segment manager to the disks -- 9.3.5 Create an EVMS segment on the disks -- 9.3.6 Restart the EVMS management tool -- 9.3.7 Create an EVMS region -- 9.3.8 Define a RAID0 array of multipath regions -- 9.3.9 Create a volume within the RAID0 region -- 9.3.10 Create a filesystem on the volume -- 9.3.11 Start EVMS at system boot -- Chapter 10. FCP security topics -- 10.1 LUN masking -- 10.2 Zoning -- 10.2.1 Zone definition -- 10.3 Binding -- Appendix A. Using zSeries dump tools with FCP -- Installing the SCSI dump tool -- Shared partition configuration -- Target and dump on different partitions -- Performing the SCSI dump -- Appendix B. Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with FCP -- Configuring the tape drives -- Configuring the IBMTape driver -- Configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Index -- Back cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Linux for zSeries
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825141903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IBM redbooks.