4.Information is displayed, listing all of the HBAs in the system. Your listing will vary depending upon how many HBAs are installed in the system.
5.Using the arrow keys, locate the HBA that you want to configure and select (i.e., highlight) the row and press Enter.
6.Select (i.e., highlight) the Firmware Update option, and press Enter.
7.Choose the option to update a single adapter port, or batch mode to update several adapter ports.
8.Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the update process.
Fibre Channel Device Scanning Policy Configuration for HP Integrity Systems
Because fibre channel SANs can contain many potential boot devices, it is necessary to use an appropriate EFI device scanning policy, when booting an HP Integrity server which is connected to a SAN. The intent of the device scanning policy is to allow a fibre channel EFI driver to find a fibre channel boot device, yet still allow the scanning process to complete in a reasonable amount of time.
Most HP Integrity servers implement default device scanning policies that work well with fibre channel without needing modification. For example, the server’s default policy might start a single EFI driver, which is attached to a known boot path. If the system is booting from a SAS internal disk, for example, the server would not start the fibre channel EFI driver. Another way that an HP Integrity server can speed the boot process is to pass the known boot path directly to the EFI driver. The EFI driver then only needs to search the SAN for that particular target and LUN.
In most cases, the server’s default EFI device scanning policy should not need modification to work properly with host bus adapters supported by the fclp
•When you want to use the EFI shell to access an EFI disk partition attached to a host bus adapter.
•When your system is experiencing boot failures and you want to ensure that the EFI driver is scanning the device.
•When you are using an HP Integrity server that does not support a default scanning policy suitable for discovering the boot device.
For adapters supported by the fclp
Modifying the Scanning Policy
1.To view the Emulex driver handle information, type at the EFI shell prompt: fs0:>drivers
A list of drivers is displayed.
2.Write down the driver handle associated with the Emulex SCSI Pass Thru Driver. The first column, labelled DRV, lists the driver handles.
3.Enter the drvcfg
20 (your driver handle may be different): fs0:>drvcfg
4.Information is displayed, listing all of the HBAs in the system. Your listing will vary depending upon how many HBAs are installed in the system.
5.Using the arrow keys, locate the HBA that you want to configure and select (i.e., highlight) the row and press Enter.
6.Select (highlight) the Setup Utility option and press Enter.
Fibre Channel Device Scanning Policy Configuration for HP Integrity Systems | 31 |
