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Connecting Violin Memory Arrays to IBM AIX and PowerVM

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 3

1.1 Intended Audience ......................................................................................................... 3

1.2 Additional Resources ..................................................................................................... 3

2 Planning for AIX Installation ............................................................................................. 4

2.1 Gateway and Array Firmware ........................................................................................ 4

2.2 Minimum Recommended Patch levels for AIX ............................................................... 4

2.3 Minimum Recommended Patch Levels for VIO Partition ................................................ 4

3 Fibre Channel Best Practices ............................................................................................ 5

3.1 Direct Attach Topology ................................................................................................... 5

3.2 Fibre Channel SAN Topology ........................................................................................ 6

3.3 FC SAN Topology with Dual VIO Partitions .................................................................... 6

3.4 SAN Configuration and Zoning ...................................................................................... 8

4 Virtual IO (VIO Partitions) .................................................................................................. 9

4.1 Boot Support for Violin LUNS in PowerVM Environment ................................................ 9

5 Storage Configuration ......................................................................................................10

5.1 LUN Creation ................................................................................................................10

5.2 Setting NACA Bit per LUN using command-line ( vMOS 5.5.1 and below) ....................12

5.3 Initiator Group Creation .................................................................................................13

5.4 LUN Export to Initiator Group ........................................................................................14

6 LPAR/Host Configuration .................................................................................................15

6.1 Multi-Pathing Driver Considerations ..............................................................................15

6.2 MPIO PCM installation ..................................................................................................15

6.3 MPIO Fileset Installation ...............................................................................................16

6.4 LUN Discovery ..............................................................................................................17

7 Discovering LUN and Enclosure Serial no on AIX ..........................................................18

8 Deploying Multipathing with DMP ....................................................................................19

8.1 Obtaining DMP Binaries ................................................................................................19

8.2 Prerequisites for DMP support on AIX for Violin Storage ..............................................19

8.3 AIX Rootability with VERITAS DMP ..............................................................................19

8.4 Installing DMP on AIX ...................................................................................................19

About Violin Memory ..............................................................................................................23

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