User`s guide

Fibre Channel Conguration Overview
This chapter provides information about conguring the Solaris OS Fibre Channel (FC) and
Storage Multipathing software. The following topics are discussed:
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“Conguration Task Overview” on page 21
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“Conguration Considerations” on page 22
Conguration Task Overview
This section provides a high level overview of the tasks that you should perform to congure the
Sun StorageTek Trac Manager software.
The following table lists the conguration tasks, description about each task and the reference
information where you can nd the procedures to perform each task.
TABLE 2–1 Tasks to Congure Solaris OS FC and Sun StorageTek Trac Manager Software
CongurationTask Task Description Reference Information
Enable Multipathing Multipathing capability is provided by the Sun
StorageTek Trac Manager software in the
Solaris 10 OS. This software enables
multipathing:
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By default, for Fibre Channel-attached
devices on x86/x64 platforms
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By manual conguration on SPARC
platforms
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By manual conguration for SAS devices
The steps for enabling
multipathing are outlined in
Chapter 4, “Conguring
Multipathing Software.”
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