Solaris, sd.conf and LUNs

From: Tim Kirby (trk@cray.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 18:59:41 EST


Hi folks

We're in the process of setting up some SAN equipment with switches, FC and
arrays behind Veritas, connected to some Solaris servers... and the question
of needing to reboot to add LUNs has raised it's head. Some time back it was
fairly well documented and/or understood that to avoid rebooting one should
max out the sd.conf file and eat the extra time taken during the boot
searching for non-responding LUNs. This seemed to be true regardless of the
SAN software vendor (Hitachi, IBM and so forth).

I haven't found any recent documentation or notes to the effect that life
is any better now and I thought to avoid many hours of digging through
pages of documentation and web pages by asking if there is anyone on list
who has recently been dealing with such issues and has a definitive answer.
Solaris 9 is probably the OS involved at this point...

Thanks for any input; I'll summarize anything worth summarizing :)

Cheers

Tim

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Tim Kirby                                       651-605-9074
trk@cray.com                   Cray Inc. Information Systems
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