Modify CNA to FC adapter on Netapp Ontap 9

Ontap is a storage operating system from Netapp which able to manage CNA network adapter. CNA or Converged Network Adapter which has a flexibility to use ethernet or fc depend on your SFP plugable transceiver. You can use 10Gbps SFP transceiver for LAN/NAS or 16Gbps for SAN connectivity. 

Netapp Ontap activated the CNA mode by default. So, if you use transceiver for FC 8Gbps or 16Gbps, you need to activated the CNA mode to FC mode manually. I have found this on Ontap installed at Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H series.  

Simply way to create Multipath MPxIO/STMS for SAN connection on Solaris 11

When we have more than one physical connection from a server to a storage for access a same LUN. We should define a MPxIO for 

the SAN connection. With this refference, we would like to introduce a simply way on how to configure MPxIO for SAN in Solaris 11. If you not configure MPxIO, the LUN will appears duplicated in format output. So, configure MPxIO is must for multipath connection.

How To Mount Storage LUNs on Solaris and Linux

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# Simply Guide of LUN mounting on Solaris & Linux
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# @ 22/4/2015

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Nowdays storage devices are mandatory requirement for Enterprise environment. Using internal disks are limited depends on maximum of server configuration. Storage device with connected to a server, the server enable to add/use external disks. So, we can expand the storage utilization.