Verifying the Fibre Channel Connections
You must identify the disk volume on the external Fibre Channel device. If required, you must also create a partition on the volume.
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Attach both Fibre Channel cables to the Emulex LPe12002 or LPe16002B Host Bus adapter on your JSA Console appliance.
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Using SSH, log in to your JSA Console as the root user.
Identify the Fibre Channel volume by typing the following command:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/*-fc-*If multiple Fibre Channel devices are attached and you cannot identify the correct Fibre Channel volume, contact your system administrator.
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If there is no partition on the Fibre Channel volume, then create a partition on the Fibre Channel device volume.
Note:JSA does not support the creation of a partition on a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) drive. The file system fails to mount during a system boot, when a partition is created on an LVM drive.
To create a partition, use the GNU parted command:
parted /dev/<volume>Configure the partition label to use GPT by typing the following command:
mklabel gpt-
If the following message is displayed, type Yes.
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/<volume> will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
To create the partition, type the following command:
mkpart primary 0% 100%Set the default units to TB by typing the following command:
unit TBVerify that the partition is created by typing the following command:
printExit from GNU parted by typing the following command:
quitUpdate the kernel with the new partition data by typing the following command:
partprobe /dev/<volume>You might be prompted to restart the appliance.
To verify that the partition is created, type the following command:
cat /proc/partitions
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Reformat the partition and make a file system.
To create an XFS file system, type the following command:
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/<partition>To create an ext4 file system, type the following command:
mkfs.ext4 -f /dev/<partition>To create an XFS file system for multipath Fibre Channel, type the following command:
mkfs.xfs -f -L multiPath /dev/<partition>To create an ext4 file system for multipath Fibre Channel, type the following command:
mkfs.ext4 -f -L multiPath /dev/<partition>
If you are moving the /store file system to a Fibre Channel solution, go to Moving the /store file system to a Fibre Channel Solution.
If you are moving the /store/ariel file system to a Fibre Channel solution, go to Moving the /store/ariel file system to a Fibre Channel Solution.
If you are moving the /store file system to a multipath Fibre Channel solution, go to Moving the /store file system to a Multipath Fibre Channel Solution.
If you are moving the /store file system to a multipath Fibre Channel solution in an HA deployment, go to Moving the /store file System to a Multipath Fibre Channel Solution in an HA Deployment.