Sun Microsystems likes the QLA 2310 Fiber Channel HBA. It’s only a 2Gig card, but it works with the Sun native driver, which makes it wonderful for us Solaris Administrators. Unfortunately, it does not integrate perfectly with EMC CLARiiON SANs because it does not register properly with Navasphere. Even if you manually register the host, the LUNs will not be presented to the host because the agent can’t pass commands to the array.
To remedy this situation on my Solaris 8 host, I used the following procedure:
Edit the /etc/system file and add the following line:
set fcp:ssfcp_enable_auto_configuration=1
Next, I rebooted my Solaris host with the “-r” flag:
reboot -- -r
Next I checked Navisphere to make sure my paths have logged in. They were, so I logged into the Solaris host and ran the following commands:
cfgadm
devfsadm
format
I then saw the storage that was presented to my host. Finally, I restarted the Navisphere agent and started using my new LUNs.
Problems Registering Solaris Hosts With QLA 2310 HBAs in Navasphere
Just in case anyone else finds this useful, this procedure also worked with Solaris 9 and Sun bradned QLA2462 HBAs.
This page is also useful for a overview of the SUN FC stack.
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/fc_drivers_sfs.html