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Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: SAN Configuration and Multipathing     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Solaris I/0 Multipathing Overview

2.  Fibre Channel Multipathing Configuration Overview

3.  Configuring Solaris I/O Multipathing Features

4.  Administering Multipathing Devices

5.  Configuring Fabric-Connected Devices

6.  Configuring Solaris iSCSI Initiators

7.  Configuring Virtual Fibre Channel Ports

8.  Configuring FCoE Ports

9.  Configuring SAS Domains

10.  Configuring IPFC SAN Devices

IPFC Considerations

Determining Fibre Channel Adapter Port Instances

How to Determine Port Instances

How to Create an IPFC Instance

Invoking and Configuring IPFC

How to Start a Network Interface Manually

How to Configure the Host for Automatic Network Configuration

11.  Booting the Oracle Solaris OS From Fibre Channel Devices on x86 Based Systems

12.  Persistent Binding for Tape Devices

A.  Manual Configuration for Fabric-Connected Devices

B.  Supported FC-HBA API

C.  Troubleshooting Multipathed Device Problems

Index

Chapter 10

Configuring IPFC SAN Devices

This chapter provides Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel (IPFC) configuration information for a host system to describe recognition of IPFC devices and implementation of IP over FC in a SAN. The IPFC driver is based on RFC 2625 and allows IP traffic to run over FC.

The following topics are covered: