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ONTAP SAN Host Utilities

Install AIX Host Utilities 8.0 for ONTAP storage

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The AIX Host Utilities help you manage ONTAP storage attached to an AIX host. NetApp strongly recommends installing the AIX Host Utilities to improve ONTAP storage management and assist NetApp support in gathering information about your configuration.

AIX Host Utilities 8.0 supports the following transport protocols and AIX environments:

  • FC, FCoE, and iSCSI

  • AIX Multipath I/O (MPIO)

  • PowerVM

    For information about PowerVM, see the IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility Red Book.

About this task

  • You need to install the AIX Host Utilities SAN Toolkit with AIX MPIO to manage ONTAP storage attached to an AIX host.

  • When you install AIX Host Utilities, they don't change any settings on your AIX host.

Before you begin

  • Use the Interoperability Matrix Tool to verify that your AIX OS, protocol, and ONTAP version support SAN booting.

  • Enable dynamic tracking for all FC and FCoE initiators by running the chdev -l <fscsi_device> -a dyntrk=ye command on the AIX host.

Steps

  1. Log in to your host:

    AIX

    On an AIX host, log in as root.

    PowerVM

    On a PowerVM host:

    1. Log in as padmin.

    2. Become a root user:

      oem_setup_env

  2. Go to the NetApp Support Site and download the compressed file containing the Host Utilities to a directory on your host.

  3. Go to the directory containing the download.

  4. Decompress the file and extract the SAN Toolkit software package:

    tar -xvf ntap_aix_host_utilities_8.0.tar.gz

    The ntap_aix_host_utilities_8.0. directory is created when you decompress the file. This directory contains one of the following subdirectories: MPIO, NON_MPIO, or SAN_Tool_Kit.

  5. Install AIX MPIO:

    installp -aXYd /var/tmp/ntap_aix_host_utilities_8.0/MPIO NetApp.MPIO_Host_Utilities_Kit

  6. Install the SAN Toolkit:

    installp -aXYd /var/tmp/ntap_aix_host_utilities_8.0/ NetApp.SAN_toolkit

  7. Reboot the host.

  8. Verify the installation:

    lslpp -l |grep -i netapp
    Show example output 
    NetApp.MPIO_Host_Utilities_Kit.config
                             8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  NetApp MPIO PCM Host Utilities
  NetApp.MPIO_Host_Utilities_Kit.fcp
                             8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  NetApp MPIO PCM Host Utilities
  NetApp.MPIO_Host_Utilities_Kit.iscsi
                             8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  NetApp MPIO PCM Host Utilities
  NetApp.MPIO_Host_Utilities_Kit.pcmodm
                             8.0.0.0 COMMITTED  NetApp MPIO PCM Host Utilities
NetApp.SAN_toolkit.sanlun  8.0.0.0 COMMITTED NetApp SAN Toolkit sanlun

  9. Confirm that the software version is 8.0.1f0fc74c:

    sanlun version

  10. Verify that the SCSI UNMAP lbp_enabled parameter has been added to the ODM:

    odmget -q "uniquetype=disk/fcp/NetAppMPIO" PdAt |grep  "lbp_enabled"
    Example ouptut
    attribute = "lbp_enabled"
    odmget -q "uniquetype=disk/fcp/NetAppMPIO and attribute=lbp_enabled" PdAt`
    Show example output 
    PdAt:
        uniquetype = "disk/fcp/NetAppMPIO"
        attribute = "lbp_enabled"
        deflt = "true"
        values = "true,false"
        width = ""
        type = "R"
        generic = ""
        rep = "s"
        nls_index = 18

What's next?

Learn about the AIX SAN Toolkit.