Creation of META LUN:

In our scenario we create two metaluns of type 1) concatenated 2) stripe

We require 3 Luns for each metalun

Step1: Create 6 standard devices of size 449mb or 958 cylinders

Steps to create Luns
1. Check free space on the storage sub system
Sun1# symconfigure – sid 277 list – freespace –unit MB

2. If free space is available, check if any sessions are running.

Sun1# symconfigure –sid 277 verify

3. Check if any locks

Sun1# symcfg –sid 277 list – lockn all

4. Create a command file

Sun1# vi std_dev
Create dev count = 6 size = 958 emulation = fba config = 2–way–mir;
wq!

5. Run the configuration

Sun1# symconfigure –sid 277 – v – f std_dev commit – nop

6. Once the configuration is done, update symapi_db.bin

Sun1# symcfg discover

7. Now, list the devices

Sun1# symdev list
Note: The devices that are to be the members of metalun shouldn’t
be mapped.

Imp Notes: The luns we created are 0001 to 0006, it is for lab example and
we distribute 0001 to 0003 for concatenated metalun and 0004 to 0006 for
striped metalun.

Step2: Creation of concatenated metalun

1. Create a command file for metalun
Sun1# vi meta_con
form meta from dev 0001, config = concatenated;
add dev 0002:0003 to meta 0001;
wq!

2. Run the configuration file.

Sun1# symconfigure – sid 277 – v –f meta_con commit – nop

3. Update the symapi_db.bin

Sun1# symcfg discover

4. List the meta devices

Sun1# symdev list –meta
 Imp Notes: A Meta device is identified by its meta head, in our
example the meta head is 0001 for concatenated metalun. And the
device that should be mapped is 0001

5. Map the meta lun

a. Verify the available ports
Sun1# symcfg – sid 277 list – connections

b. Now check the available addresses

Sun1# symcfg – sid 277 list – available – addresses – dir 1c
–p 0

Available addresses will be shown as follows:

Example
Devices Status LUN
- Available 00f
Imp Notes: From the above example we decipher 00f as an
available address for mapping

c. Create a command file

Sun1# vi map_dev
Map dev 0001 to dir 1c:0, LUN = 00f
wq!

d. Run the configuration

Sun1# symconfigure – sid 277 –v –f map_dev commit –nop

e. Update the symapi_db.bin

Sun1# symcfg discover

f. Configure the controller

i. Check the controller
Sun1# cfgadm –al

ii. In our example controller is c3

Configure the controller
Sun1# cfgadm –c configure c3

g. Update symapi_db.bin
Sun1# symcfg discover

Imp Notes: Metalun has been mapped and it is identified by its head 0001
now assign metalun to the host and mount it.

Step3: Mask the metalun

1. Sun1# symmask –sid 277 add dev 0001 –awn Sun1/port0 –p 0
–dir 1c
2. Sun1# symmask –sid 277 add dev 0001 –awn Sun1/port0 –p 0
–dir 2c
3. Sun1# symmask –sid 277 add dev 0001 –awn Sun1/port0 –p 0
–dir 15c
4. Sun1# symmask –sid 277 add dev 0001 –awn Sun1/port0 –p 0
–dir 16c
 5. Refresh database
Sun1# symmask refresh

6. Update the symapi_db

Sun1# symcfg discover

7. Verify metalun in the VCM database

Sun1# symmaskdb list database

8. Configure the controller

Sun1# vxdmpadm listctlr

9. Check the status of the controller

If disabled enable it.
Sun1# vxdmpadm enable ctlr=c3

10. Find the device and label it

a. Format
b. Label
c. Quit
Imp Notes: Identify the device and enter the device no. and label it.

11. Scan for the disk

Sun1# vxdisk scandisks

12. List the disks

Sun1# vxdisk list

13. Initialize the disk, in our example the enclosure name given to our
device is emc_01.
Sun1# vxdisk setup –i emc_01

14. Now create Volume Manager Disk (vmdisk) by creating disk group.
Sun1# vxdg init Sun1dg disk01 = emc_01

15. Create a volume on meta devices

Sun1# vxassist –g Sun1dg make vol01 100m

16. List the disk groups

Sun1# vxdisk –o alldgs list

17. List the volume

Sun1# vxprint –h

18. Create file system on the volume

Sun1# newfs /dev/vx/rdsk/Sun1dg/vol01

19. Create a mount point

Sun1# mkdir /meta_con
20. Mount the volume
Sun1# mount /dev/vx/dsk/Sun1dg/vol01/meta_con
Sun1# cd /meta_con

21. Add the data

Sun1# cp –r /etc/r* .

22. Verify the data

Sun1# ls