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Multipath Duplicate Drives
I am setting up multipaths for Veritas backup on SAN storage. I noticed that lsblk shows duplicate disks, which is quite confusing. For example, both sdc and sdd represent the same disk, and similarly,...
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Is it possible to mount an ATA over Ethernet (AOE) block device on multiple clients, if so how?
I have a lab consisting of 3 machines connected with 2 10gbe links on 2 segregated networks. Each device has 100tb in block storage connected to it. I want to use ATA over Ethernet to create a storage ...
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Is it possible to find amount of data that come and go through HBA ports?
I have a ProLiant server with a HBA card (2 ports). $ ls /sys/class/fc_host host2 host3 and also I have a 20T SAN storage that is connected to San switch via those ports. Is it possible to monitor ...
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How to get host "client" initiator wwn's from FC SAN card & switch
I saw an IBM San Storage and at Host alias creation page they can show you available host (client) initiators wwn's to choose. And I wonder how they can find client initiator wwn's from storage? I ...
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Viewing Port Info FC Solaris 11
I have a hba card with two ports (port 0) and (port 1) and I want to know how can obtaining using OS the info to mapping the wwn that I can see using fcinfo hba-port command to a port of the hba card. ...
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Oracle Linux 7 mounting SAN storage issue
I have a scenario where I am trying to mount SAN storage to my linux machine. My environment details are- Oracle VM manager for VM creation Fiber Channel HP3PAR SAN storage attached as physical disk ...
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Oracle Linux 7.5 format a SAN storage disk using ext2 file system
I have a scenario where I have to use SAN storage for my Oracle Database installation single node production setup and need to keep Database configuration files on SAN. I am using Oracle VM manager to ...
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How come I, as a normal user, am able to change ownership of a file?
I have a partition that's NFS-mounted from a Netapp SAN. I can create files in that partition, and I can chown those files to another user, any user, even root. How am I able to do so? I thought the ...