Table of Contents
DYNAMIC PATH FAILOVER FOR AIX................................................ 3
Introduction............................................................................................ 3
SAN Management................................................................................... 4
Storage Management............................................................................. 4
Path Management.................................................................................. 4
SCSI and FCP Drivers........................................................................... 5
Load Balancing...................................................................................... 5
HOW PREFERRED PATHS WORK........................................................ 6
Multiple LUNs........................................................................................ 6
More than two paths...............................................................................6
Multiple Hosts........................................................................................ 7
ADAPTER SPECIFICATIONS..................................................................9
Trademarks............................................................................................ 9
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE INSTALLATION............................. 10
Driver Installation (command line)...................................................... 10
Driver Installation (smit)..................................................................... 12
Hardware Installation.......................................................................... 13
AutoRecover......................................................................................... 14
AIX Configuration................................................................................ 15
Persistent Bindings...............................................................................16
SMIT COMMANDS.................................................................................. 17
Commands............................................................................................ 17
Path Management Commands............................................................. 18
Manage Licensing................................................................................ 19
How to set path preferences................................................................. 20
TROUBLESHOOTING............................................................................ 22
ERROR MESSAGES.................................................................................26
UPGRADING THE DRIVER................................................................... 27
APPENDIX A............................................................................................. 28
Identifying Fibre Channel Components............................................... 28
PC2000 LED Meanings....................................................................... 31
PC4000 LED Meanings....................................................................... 32
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