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  1. 01-19-2010 #1
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    Typically when I'm given a SAN attached to one of my servers i'm not given any information on it. Usually I can get my with an fdisk -l to tell me what's out there. Twice now I've had to ask what the connection device is. What command can be run other than fdisk -l, I've seen something ran people by another guy but was not able to write it down at the time and have forgotten it.
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    How it is presented to the OS, and what drivers are required, depends upon the SAN. AFAIK, there is no standard way to do this. Some may appear as a local disc, or a system host (file server) w/ IP address. Since I don't have any SN's attached to my system (only a couple of NAS units accessed via CIFS) the only SAN-related tools I can find are /sbin/fence_sanbox2 and /usr/bin/pkinit-get-san. The latter has no man page so I don't really know what it does, except that it seems to be related to data encryption. The former (fence_sanbox2) helps control storage in a cluster, which is all I know about it (I'm not running a cluster).
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  4. 01-20-2010 #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rubberman View Post
    How it is presented to the OS, and what drivers are required, depends upon the SAN. AFAIK, there is no standard way to do this. Some may appear as a local disc, or a system host (file server) w/ IP address. Since I don't have any SN's attached to my system (only a couple of NAS units accessed via CIFS) the only SAN-related tools I can find are /sbin/fence_sanbox2 and /usr/bin/pkinit-get-san. The latter has no man page so I don't really know what it does, except that it seems to be related to data encryption. The former (fence_sanbox2) helps control storage in a cluster, which is all I know about it (I'm not running a cluster).
    Not sure the last two I've seen were /dev/mapper/sanname

    HROAdmin26 - Thanks I'll check that after dinner and see if it helps.
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