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DYNAMIC PATH FAILOVER FOR AIX ................................................ 3
Introduction............................................................................................ 3
SAN Management................................................................................... 4
Storage Management ............................................................................. 4
Path Management .................................................................................. 4
SCSI and FCP Drivers........................................................................... 5
Load Balancing...................................................................................... 5
HOW PREFERRED PATHS WORK........................................................ 6
Multiple LUNs........................................................................................ 6
More than two paths............................................................................... 6
Multiple Hosts........................................................................................ 7
ADAPTER SPECIFICATIONS.................................................................. 9
Trademarks ............................................................................................ 9
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE INSTALLATION............................. 10
Driver Installation (command line)...................................................... 10
Driver Installation (smit) ..................................................................... 12
Hardware Installation.......................................................................... 13
AutoRecover......................................................................................... 14
AIX Configuration................................................................................ 15
Persistent Bindings............................................................................... 16
SMIT COMMANDS.................................................................................. 17
Commands............................................................................................ 17
Path Management Commands ............................................................. 18
Manage Licensing................................................................................ 19
How to set path preferences................................................................. 20
TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................................ 22
ERROR MESSAGES................................................................................. 26
UPGRADING THE DRIVER................................................................... 27
APPENDIX A............................................................................................. 28
Identifying Fibre Channel Components ............................................... 28
PC2000 LED Meanings ....................................................................... 31
PC4000 LED Meanings ....................................................................... 32
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