It's supported. But I still find that MPXIO in general is better than EMC PowerPath or HDS HDLM because of the simplicity of the support and management of SAN LUNs. MPXIO works find on EMC, HDS, 3Par, Netapp, etc storage. At worst, you might have to edit the /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf to tune settings. A good read up on MPXIO is here:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+mpxio/ I like the fact that with the built-in Leadville HBA drivers in Solaris 10 and above and MPXIO, it's one less thing to worry about when attaching storage. All I do is run stmsboot -e and reboot. Then all I have to do to configure and unconfigure storage is to use cfgadm. I can get all my HBA details with fcinfo. If you use the Sun Oracle branded Emulex or Qlogic HBAs, the firmware is taken care of by the drivers. So in the end, I don't need any of the tools or drivers from Emulex, Qlogic, EMC, HDS, etc.. to use SAN storage. Everything I need is already in the OS and it just makes my life easier. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ________________________________ From: Burke Sean <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 7:16:39 AM Subject: [ldoms-discuss] EMC Powerpath Hi, I searched to see if EMC PowerPath works under LDOMS but could only see responses that it was not supported back in 2008, so does anyone know if it supported now or is MPXIO still the only option? Cheers Sean Regards, Sean Burke UNIX Systems Engineer Stryker Europe, Middle East & Africa Stryker S.A. - Cité-Centre, Grand-rue 92 1820 Montreux Switzerland tel.: + 41 21 966 13 54 mbl: +41 79 362 85 15 fax: + 41 21 966 12 20 http://www.europe.stryker.com
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