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Install Solaris Host Utilities 6.2 for ONTAP storage

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The Solaris Host Utilities help you manage ONTAP storage attached to a Solaris host and assist technical support with gathering configuration data.

The Solaris Host Utilities support several Solaris environments and multiple transport protocols. These are the primary Solaris Host Utilities environments:

  • The native OS with MPxIO and either the Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI protocol on a system using either a SPARC processor or an x86/64 processor.

  • Veritas Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) with either the FC or iSCSI protocol on a system using a SPARC processor, or the iSCSI protocol on a system using an x86/64 processor.

The Solaris Host Utilities 6.2 support the following Solaris series:

  • Solaris 11.x

  • Solaris 10.x

Before you begin

Verify that your iSCSI, FC, or FCoE configuration is supported. You can use the Interoperability Matrix Tool to verify your configuration.

Steps

  1. Log in to your host as root.

  2. Download a copy of the compressed file containing the Host Utilities from the NetApp Support Site to a directory on your Solaris host:

    SPARC CPU
    netapp_solaris_host_utilities_6_2_sparc.tar.gz
    x86/x64 CPU
    netapp_solaris_host_utilities_6_2_amd.tar.gz

  3. Go to the directory on your Solaris host containing the download.

  4. Unzip the file using the gunzip command:

    gunzip netapp_solaris_host_utilities_6_2_sparc.tar.gz

  5. Extract the file using the tar xvf command:

    tar xvf netapp_solaris_host_utilities_6_2_sparc.tar

  6. Add the packages that you extracted from tar file to your host

    pkgadd

    The packages are added to the /opt/NTAP/SANToolkit/bin directory.

    The following example uses the pkgadd command to install the Solaris installation package:

    pkgadd -d ./NTAPSANTool.pkg

  7. Confirm that the toolkit was successfully installed by using one of the following commands:

    pkginfo
    ls - al
    Show example outputs 
    # ls -alR /opt/NTAP/SANToolkit
/opt/NTAP/SANToolkit:
total 1038
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys            4 Jul 22  2019 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys            3 Jul 22  2019 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys            6 Jul 22  2019 bin
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys       432666 Sep 13  2017 NOTICES.PDF

/opt/NTAP/SANToolkit/bin:
total 7962
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys            6 Jul 22  2019 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys            4 Jul 22  2019 ..
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys      2308252 Sep 13  2017 host_config
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys          995 Sep 13  2017 san_version
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys      1669204 Sep 13  2017 sanlun
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys          677 Sep 13  2017 vidpid.dat

# (cd /usr/share/man/man1; ls -al host_config.1 sanlun.1)
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys        12266 Sep 13  2017 host_config.1
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys         9044 Sep 13  2017 sanlun.1

  8. Configure the host parameters for your MPxIO or Veritas DMP environment:

    /opt/NTAP/SANToolkit/bin/host_config

  9. Verify the installation:

    sanlun version

What's next?

Learn about the SAN Toolkit.