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Emulex LP-9002L-E
Hello, I consider to buy four refurbished Emulex LP9002L-E fibre channel host bus adapters for my Lab servers (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows). The disk array is IBM DS8100. I would like to perform some failover and clustering tests: 1. Failover software such as pvlinks or Veritas DMP. 2. Cluster Server / High Availability Software such as HP ServiceGuard, Veritas Foundation Suite/HA. As far as I know the LP9002L with -E suffix has EMC firmware embedded. The question is: Is it necessary (and possible) to upload the original Emulex firmware to those HBAs? In case it is not possible, will I be able to connect my servers to IBM DS8100 disk array using -E model, or should I consider another HBA ? I will appreciate any suggestion. Thanks in Advance Darek |
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Emulex LP-9002L-E
Derek,
You have to look at the interoperability matrix of the DS8100 at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storag...0/interop.html and at http://www.emulex.com/ts/docoem/ibm/index.htm for the firmware and drivers. I dont know anything about the -E but we are running AIX and Windows hosts with LP9002L HBA's connected to a DS box. Greetings. derek123 schreef: Hello, I consider to buy four refurbished Emulex LP9002L-E fibre channel host bus adapters for my Lab servers (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows). The disk array is IBM DS8100. I would like to perform some failover and clustering tests: 1. Failover software such as pvlinks or Veritas DMP. 2. Cluster Server / High Availability Software such as HP ServiceGuard, Veritas Foundation Suite/HA. As far as I know the LP9002L with -E suffix has EMC firmware embedded. The question is: Is it necessary (and possible) to upload the original Emulex firmware to those HBAs? In case it is not possible, will I be able to connect my servers to IBM DS8100 disk array using -E model, or should I consider another HBA ? I will appreciate any suggestion. Thanks in Advance Darek |
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Emulex LP-9002L-E
"derek123" wrote in message newsp.teo91ig81ftvjk@dw-ff38ed6d1172... Hello, I consider to buy four refurbished Emulex LP9002L-E fibre channel host bus adapters for my Lab servers (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows). The disk array is IBM DS8100. I would like to perform some failover and clustering tests: 1. Failover software such as pvlinks or Veritas DMP. 2. Cluster Server / High Availability Software such as HP ServiceGuard, Veritas Foundation Suite/HA. As far as I know the LP9002L with -E suffix has EMC firmware embedded. The question is: Is it necessary (and possible) to upload the original Emulex firmware to those HBAs? In case it is not possible, will I be able to connect my servers to IBM DS8100 disk array using -E model, or should I consider another HBA ? I will appreciate any suggestion. Thanks in Advance Darek The E just means that the HBA comes with EMC packaging and documentation. EMC, HP, IBM do not make any changes to the electronics, you can download the firmware and drivers directly from Emulex by navigating to the OEM page. The driver software settings have been configured by the vendor. Not familiar with Open Systems drivers but the Windows drivers have a modified Setup file by the vendor which contain the settings for their product. |
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