We are using point to point cabling, so I can't use the discovery tools,
no switch.
I have connectivity after working out the LUN names.  I'm struggling
with LVM2 over multipaths.
Thanks,
Betsie 

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Raymond Higgs
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: zFCP Disk

Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 02/01/2008 03:35:34
PM:

> Much of the doc out there is for earlier releases (I'm running SLES10)

> and there is no real step by step information out there to add FCP to 
> an existing Linux Virtual Server.
> The FCP Redbooks and NPIV Redbooks make some sign cant assumptions on 
> the level of knowledge  that we have. So for example:
>
> I'm attaching to a EMC Clarion in my test environment.
>  I had to sign into the switch before they could finish the masking, 
> but when using yast it insisted on knowing ALL the details of the FCP 
> connection before I could proceed. By experimentation I found that if 
> I used the zfcp_host_configure command to set the VM device on line it

> signed me in and out of the switch.
>
> Then there was more time spent trying to find commands to show what I 
> could see and where they were all located. Some of the things I came 
> across like san_disc  showed up but with no examples to go by I 
> couldn't work out what it was asking for or the appropriate entries.  
> Other commands I came across like lsscsi, lszfcp are mentioned in 
> differing presentations scattered around the web.

These commands are documented in the device drivers document.  There are
even examples :)  Use developer works to get a copy:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/october2005_documentati
on.html

Ray Higgs
System z FCP Development
Bld. 706, B24
2455 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 435-8666,  T/L 295-8666
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