This topic describes how to install version 2.2 of the SAN File
System on an AIX® client.
Prerequisites
- You must have root privileges to install the client for AIX.
- For AIX 5.1,
the bos.mp (multiprocessor) or bos.up (uniprocessor) packages must be at least
5.1.0.58 or higher. AIX 5.1 32-bit high availability cluster multi-processing
(HACMP™)
environments are supported at the specified maintenance level.
- For AIX 5.2,
the bos.mp, bos.up, or bos.mp64 must be at least 5.2.0.18 or later.
- For AIX 5.3, the bos.mp, bos.up, or bos.mp64 must be at least
5.3.0.0 or later.
Steps
- Enable asynchronous input/output on the AIX client, which is required for the SAN
File System:
- Log on to the client as root.
- Start smit.
- Select Devices.
- Select Asynchronous I/O.
- Select Asynchronous I/O (Legacy). You
see this choice only if you are enabling asynchronous I/O on AIX 5.2 or AIX 5.3.
If you are using AIX 5.1, skip this step.
- Select Change/Show Characteristics of Asynchronous
I/O.
- Use the tab key to set the STATE to be configured at system
restart to available.
- Press Enter.
- At this point, you can select Configure Defined Asynchronous
I/O in the smit menu to apply the changes and then exit smit,
or you can exit smit and run cfgmgr to apply the changes.
- Navigate to the directory where the client installation package
is located.
- Use smit or installp to install
the package. For example:
installp -ac -d . client_package_name
- Configure and start the client. If you are using the client configuration
as it existed before the upgrade, follow these steps:
- Copy stclient.conf from the temporary directory back to /usr/tank/client/config/.
- Run the setup command
/usr/tank/client/bin/setupstclient
- If you do not have stclient.conf or if you want to make changes
to the client configuration, run the setup command with the –prompt parameter:
/usr/tank/client/bin/setupstclient -prompt
You are prompted to enter values for the client configuration,
as shown in Table 1. In most cases you can accept the defaults. If you change
these values, make sure that you type the new values correctly.