Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research
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<strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager<br />
A newer alternative to DMP that is also supported by the <strong>Sun</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>V445</strong> server is<br />
<strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager software. <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager is a serverbased<br />
dynamic path failover software solution, used to improve the overall<br />
availability of business applications. <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager (previously<br />
known as multiplexed input/output, or MPxIO) is included in the Solaris OS.<br />
The <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager software integrates multiple path I/O<br />
capabilities, automatic load balancing, and path failover functions into one package<br />
for <strong>Sun</strong> servers connected to supported <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge systems. <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic<br />
Manager can provide you with increased system performance and availability for<br />
building mission-critical storage area networks (SANs).<br />
The <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager architecture provides the following capabilities:<br />
■ Helps protect against I/O outages due to I/O controller failures. Should one I/O<br />
controller fail, <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager automatically switches to an<br />
alternate controller.<br />
■ Increases I/O performance by load balancing across multiple I/O channels.<br />
<strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge T3, <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge 3510, and <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge A5x00 storage arrays are all<br />
supported by <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager on a <strong>Sun</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>V445</strong> server. Supported<br />
I/O controllers are single and dual fibre-channel network adapters, including the<br />
following:<br />
■ PCI Single Fibre-Channel Host Adapter (<strong>Sun</strong> part number x6799A)<br />
■ PCI Dual Fibre-Channel Network Adapter (<strong>Sun</strong> part number x6727A)<br />
■ 2GByte PCI Single Fibre-Channel Host Adapter (<strong>Sun</strong> part number x6767A)<br />
■ 2GByte PCI Dual Fibre-Channel Network Adapter (<strong>Sun</strong> part number x6768A)<br />
Note – <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic Manager is not supported for boot disks containing the<br />
root (/) file system. You can use hardware mirroring or VERITAS Volume Manager<br />
instead. See “Creating a Hardware Disk Mirror” on page 118 and “About Volume<br />
Management Software” on page 112.<br />
Refer to the documentation supplied with the VERITAS Volume Manager and<br />
Solaris Volume Manager software. For more information about <strong>Sun</strong> StorEdge Traffic<br />
Manager, see your Solaris system administration documentation.<br />
Chapter 6 Managing Disk Volumes 113