Re: [Veritas-bu] Hardware & OS upgrade blues

On RHEL, lsscsi works pretty well too for listing out your robot resources at the OS level..

Did you put SELinux into permissive (at least) mode, to get it out of the way?

I had some problems getting RHEL6 to work with 6.5.x (and have since upgraded it up to 7.5.x), it turned out to be the 32- vs 64-bit installer base. I had to install a *ton* of 32-bit compat libraries to get it to see the drives. I don’t really have an exhaustive list, it was dredging through log & error files to get the right things installed (and doing a lot of “yum search” & “yum provides”).

~ Robin

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jim Horalek
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Hardware & OS upgrade blues

NBU wont matter if the OS won’t see the drives.

Check /proc/scsi/scsi?? to see if it configured the drives.

The check /dev/st0 /dev/st1 /dev/nst0 /dev/nst0 etc…

mt –f /dev/st0 status …… etc.

Zoning maybe hosed. Did you activate the Zone?

Jim

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hardware & OS upgrade blues

Hi, list. I’m upgrading from a Dell 2850 to a Dell 1950, from RHEL4 to RHEL5 and eventually from NBU 7.0.1 to 7.5. First I have to get the hardware upgrade completed.

I have 2 QLogic HBAs in my new server - QLE2460’s. I have installed the QLogic drivers and also SANsurfer. The HBAs are configured and attached to our FC switch and to a Quantum i2000 robotic tape library. Feel free to disbelieve me and ask all the questions you want.

I can see the LUNs from SANsurfer and when I logon to the ADIC tape library’s GUI, I can see the HBAs. However, NBU won’t detect the HBAs drive by autoscan. I was on the phone with Symantec for about 3 hours today and we did not solve the problem although we did make progress.

Does anyone have any ideas about what part of the configuration I’ve missed or overlooked? I am not a FC guru by any stretch so I could easily have missed something important.

Thanks,

Mike

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