Steffen Hi,

many thnaks will try this

thanks,

Avinoam


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Steffen Maier <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 06/18/2013 01:28 PM, Avinoam hirschberg wrote:
>
>> we try to do as follows and the system did recognize/see any LUNs
>>
>> from this doc -
>> http://public.dhe.ibm.com/**software/dw/linux390/docu/**lk38ts07a.pdf<http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/lk38ts07a.pdf>
>>
>> FCP setups running in NPIV mode detect the LUNs automatically and after
>> setting
>>
>> the device online no further configuration is necessary.
>> * NPIV example *
>>
>> 1. To set FCP device 0.0.5400 online, issue the following command:
>> # chccwdev --online 0.0.5400
>> Setting device 0.0.5400 online
>> Done
>>
>> The *chccwdev *command is part of s390-tools. For a description of the
>> command see *Device Drivers, Features, and Commands*, SC33-8411
>>
>> After setting the FCP device online, all LUNs with valid host-connections
>> for the
>> WWPN of the NPIV FCP device are automatically visible as SCSI devices:
>>
>> # lsscsi
>> [0:0:0:1073758410]disk IBM 2107900 0.33 /dev/sda
>> [0:0:0:1073823946]disk IBM 2107900 0.33 /dev/sdb
>>
>> 2. To find out if the FCP setup is running in NPIV mode, check the
>> port_type
>> attribute of the FCP device, for example:
>>
>> # cat /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/zfcp/0.0.**5400/host0/fc_host/host0/port_**
>> type
>> NPIV VPORT
>>
>
> The "scsi howto" you refer to describes upstream kernel version 2.6.38.
> This book version is closest to SLES11 SP2, but we don't have an explicit
> SLES spin of the book.
> In addition to the "scsi howto", we have our "device drivers book" as
> reference and for those we have a version specifically for each distro
> release. Please see:
> http://www.ibm.com/**developerworks/linux/linux390/**
> documentation_suse.html#**sles11sp2<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/documentation_suse.html#sles11sp2>
>
> Assuming you don't get scsi devices by means of auto lun scan with zfcp
> despite the use of NPIV-enabled FCP devices, you probably need to use
> the following zfcp module parameter: zfcp.allow_lun_scan=1.
> In contrast to upstream kernels, it had to remain disabled by default in
> SLES11 in order not to introduce semantic changes between service packs.
> The simplest place to put the parameter is as additional kernel boot
> parameter in /etc/zipl.conf. For more details about such parameters please
> see "Chapter 3. Kernel and module parameters."
>
> Reference:
> Device Drivers, Features, and Commands on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
> SP2
> Service Pack 2 changes
> "You can now enable automatic scanning for SCSI devices that are available
> through an NPIV port. See “Configuring SCSI devices” on page 70 and the
> information about the allow_lun_scan= module parameter in “zfcp module
> parameters” on page 59."
>
> For presistent configuration across reboots, you would only use
> zfcp_host_configure which will set the FCP device(s) online for you.
> Just drop the part that does the unit_add for the non-NPIV cases,
> i.e. do not use zfcp_disk_configure. Yast probably also does not yet
> support the NPIV auto lun scan case because it always wants to configure
> individual LUNs (ending up calling zfcp_disk_configure).
>
> HTH
> Steffen Maier
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