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How to identify the HBA cards/ports and WWN in Solaris
HOWTOS | BASICS | CONCEPTS

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A system administrator must know some of the basic concepts of storage systems. In this post I will try to
explain some of the concepts and useful commands related to identifying HBA cards, WWN numbers and ber
channel paths. Before we start with the commands let us get acquainted with some of the storage related
terms.

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Initiator : Initiator is typically a server with HBA card installed. The initiator initiates the connection over the
ber channel to the storage system.

Target : Target is typically the storage system itself. Target servers the requests from the initiators for the data.

WWN : WWN stands for the world wide name. Similar to a network card having a unique MAC address, every
HBA port will have a unique WWN number.

Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

We can get a list of HBA ports using the luxadm command. Remember that luxadm command only work on
hba’s that are bound to the Oracle drivers. So if native (non oracle) Emulex driver is in use then the luxadm

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command will not work. In that case use the fcinfo command.

# luxadm -e port

/devices/ssm@0,0/pci@18,600000/SUNW,emlxs@1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/ssm@0,0/pci@18,600000/SUNW,emlxs@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/ssm@0,0/pci@1c,600000/SUNW,emlxs@1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/ssm@0,0/pci@1c,600000/SUNW,emlxs@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

"CONNECTED" --> HBA has established connection with either target or initiator.
"NOT CONNECTED" --> HBA has not established a connection with some other node or it is connected

The fcinfo command give us more info on the HBA ports (model, manufactures etc) and the WWN numbers of
the HBA ports.

# fcinfo hba-port
HBA Port WWN: 23000800xxxxxxx
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c1
Manufacturer: QLogic Corp.

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Model: 2200
Firmware Version: 2.01.145
FCode/BIOS Version: ISP2200 FC-AL Host Adapter Driver: 1.14 01/11/20
Serial Number: not available
Driver Name: qlc
Driver Version: 20090415-2.30
Type: L-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb
Current Speed: 1Gb
Node WWN: 22000800xxxxxxx
HBA Port WWN: 10000000cxxxxxxx
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c5
Manufacturer: Emulex
Model: LP10000DC-S
Firmware Version: 1.92a1 (T2D1.92A1)
FCode/BIOS Version: Boot:5.01a4 Fcode:1.50a4
Serial Number: BG52130223
Driver Name: emlxs
Driver Version: 2.31t (2009.04.05.14.10)
Type: N-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb
Current Speed: 2Gb
Node WWN: 20000000cxxxxxxx
HBA Port WWN: 10000000cxxxxxxx
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c6
Manufacturer: Emulex
Model: LP10000DC-S
Firmware Version: 1.92a1 (T2D1.92A1)
FCode/BIOS Version: Boot:5.01a4 Fcode:1.50a4
Serial Number: BG52130223
Driver Name: emlxs
Driver Version: 2.31t (2009.04.05.14.10)
Type: N-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb
Current Speed: 2Gb
Node WWN: 20000000cxxxxxxx

Check the elds “Model:” and “Manufacturer:” in the output above. You can identify various manufactures of
the HBA cards from these elds.

N d WWN WWN f HBA it lf

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Node WWN - WWN of HBA itself

Port WWN - WWN on a specific port of the HBA

LPxxxxxx-S are Oracle Emulex HBA Cards (ie it has a “-S” for Sun at end).
LPxxxxxx-E are NON-Oracle HBAs usually resold by EMC.
LPxxxxxx-H are NON-Oracle HBAs usually resold by Hitachi.
LPxxxxxx-M are NON-Oracle HBAs usually resold by
375-xxxx-xx are Oracle Qlogic HBA Cards.
QLAxxxx may or may not be Oracle Qlogic HBA Cards so you would need to use “prtpicl Command:” to
determine.
Model: 2200 with Manufacturer: QLogic Corp is a old Oracle Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
HBA Cards.

For Solaris 8 and 9

The fcinfo command may not work in Solaris 8 and 9. So we’ll have to use the below command. but the
command would also show other devices such as network cards. look for the driver-name to identify the HBA
cards.

# prtpicl -v | egrep "subsystem-id|model|devfs-path|driver-name|binding-name" | awk '/subsystem-

subsystem-id 0x13a1
model LSI,1064

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devfs-path /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/scsi@1
driver-name mpt
binding-name pci1000,50

subsystem-id 0x1648
devfs-path /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/network@2
driver-name bge
binding-name pci14e4,1648

subsystem-id 0x1648
devfs-path /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/network@2,1
driver-name bge
binding-name pci14e4,1648

subsystem-id 0xfe00
model LPe11000-M4
devfs-path /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@9/fibre-channel@0
driver-name emlxs
binding-name pciex10df,fe00
.........

Some of the old HBAs may not display the “subsystem-id” in the above comman output. In that case use the
below commands :

# prtpicl -v | egrep -i "qla|lpfc"

# prtpicl -v | grep -i fibre-channel

For Example

# prtpicl -v | grep -i fibre-channel

fibre-channel (obp-device, 4b300000160e)
fibre-channel (obp-device, 4b30000016be)
fibre-channel (obp-device, 4b3000001ca2)
fibre-channel (obp-device, 4b3000001d52)

Each listing in the above output is a HBA port. To list the paths grep for the “devfs-path” string.

# prtpicl -v | grep -i devfs-path | grep -i fibre-channel | grep -v sd | nawk -F: '{ print $2 }
devfs path /pci@8 700000/fibre channel@2

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devfs-path /pci@8,700000/fibre-channel@2
devfs-path /pci@8,700000/fibre-channel@3
devfs-path /pci@9,700000/fibre-channel@2
devfs-path /pci@9,700000/fibre-channel@3

Using the prtdiag command

In case if the prtpicl command also doee not work, use the prtdiag command to identify the HBA cards. prtdiag
may be very helpful in case of a Solaris x86/x64 system.

# prtdiag -v
......
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus Max
IO Port Bus Freq Bus Dev,
Brd Type ID Side Slot MHz Freq Func State Name Model
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------------------------- ----------------
I/O PCI 8 B 4 33 33 1,0 ok pci-pci1011,26.5/SUNW,qlc (scsi-+ PCI-BRIDGE
I/O PCI 8 B 4 33 33 4,0 ok SUNW,qlc-pci1077,2200.1077.4083.+ device on pci-b
I/O PCI 8 A 1 66 66 1,0 ok SUNW,emlxs-pci10df,fc00/fp (fp) LP10000DC-S
I/O PCI 8 A 1 66 66 1,1 ok SUNW,emlxs-pci10df,fc00/fp (fp) LP10000DC-S
.........

Gathering information on target port WWN

To get information on target port WWN use the “remote-port -p” option with fcinfo. The syntax for the same is :

# fcinfo remote-port -p [HBA Port WWN at server end (initiator)]

For example

# fcinfo remote-port -p 10000000c993b528

Remote Port WWN: 5006016239a01db6
Active FC4 Types: SCSI
SCSI Target: yes

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Node WWN: 50060160b9a01db6

Remote Port WWN: 5006016b3b205594
Active FC4 Types: SCSI
SCSI Target: yes
Node WWN: 50060160bb205594

Another way to get the target port WWNs is using the luxadm command with the dump_map option :

# luxadm -e dump_map /devices/pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl

Pos Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN Node WWN Type
0 664f13 0 50060e800428a551 50060e800428a551 0x0 (Disk device)
1 610b13 0 210000e08b1c4dd6 200000e08b1c4dd6 0x0 (Disk device)

Port_ID ending with “00” or “13” indicates a FC switch attached storage.

Getting LUN list from a speci c storage port

We can also get a list LUNs coming from a speci c storage port (i.e. target port). The syntax for getting this
details :

# fcinfo remote-port -s -p 10000000c993b528

Remote Port WWN: 5006016239a01db6
Active FC4 Types: SCSI
SCSI Target: yes

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Node WWN: 50060160b9a01db6

LUN: 0
Vendor: DGC
Product: LUNZ
OS Device Name: /dev/rdsk/c2t5006016239A01DB6d0s2
LUN: 1
Vendor: DGC
Product: RAID 5
OS Device Name: /dev/rdsk/c3t60060160545D1C00C0369BCD3361DC11d0s2
LUN: 33
Vendor: DGC
Product: RAID 5
OS Device Name: /dev/rdsk/c3t60060160545D1C00B87CDAF33B44DC11d0s2

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