Have you tried running a SCSIDISC report from z/VM?  It should spell out the
LUNs that can be seen from your z/VM.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Harder, Pieter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a lun on my installation:
> 0x4012400000000000
> The lun number in the Storage Admin is 1200
> So that conforms exactly to x'40ab40cd00000000'
> If you can't see it, it is most likely zoning in the SAN switch. Have the
> person who is responsible for that look into i.
>
> Best regards,
> Pieter Harder
>
> [email protected]
> tel  +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537
>
>
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> Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Caleb C Ong
> Verzonden: dinsdag 15 december 2009 18:13
> Aan: [email protected]
> Onderwerp: LUN numbers for DS8000
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to determine the LUN numbers to be used for zlinux (redhat
> or suse) installation.
> I have a z10 with ds8300 disk.  Connected thru fcp thru a san switch.
>
> storage admin gave me a four digit lun number x1600.  In ESS800, i just
> used to add 12 zeros to it.
> But that doesn't seem to work with ds8300.
>
> I found this hint on the "how to use fc attached scsi devices on linux z
> feb 2007'
>
> There are three things you should be aware of when configuring the
> TotalStorage system:
>  New mask: For the logical volume number X’abcd’ the LUN ID will be:
> X’40ab40cd00000000’.
>
> So i tried LUN number 4016400000000000 but i still cannot add zfcp disk
> using the installation gui.
>
> I also found this redpaper on 'where are the lun number on a ds8000" .
>
> How to convert the LUN ID in DS8000 to the FCP LUN ID in Linux
> The FCP LUN ID in Linux is written in hexadecimal and must be exactly 16
> hexadecimal digits. We use the showvolgrp command to get
> every LUN ID in the DS8000 for each volume. All of our devices used only
> the high-order four digits of the 16 hexadecimal digit LUN
> address. We just add two zeros before the two-digit LUN ID in the DS8000,
> and then add another 12 zeros behind these four digits.
> Therefore, we place 16 hexadecimal digits for our FCP LUN ID into Linux.
> For example, the LUN ID of logical volume 1000 is 02. After adding two
> zeros before it and 12 zeros behind it, it becomes
> 0x0002000000000000. We can use these 16 hexadecimal digits as our Linux FCP
> mapping.
>
>
> I don't think i understand this, if you add two zero in front, then doesn't
> that limit the number of lun  to just 255 for a ds8300 ?
>
> Maybe i am not understanding this correctly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Caleb C. Ong
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