How do I mount a drive in AIX?

How do I mount a drive in AIX?

Procedure

  1. Enter a device name for your DVD-ROM file system in the DEVICE Name field.
  2. Enter the DVD-ROM mount point directory in the MOUNT POINT window.
  3. In the Mount AUTOMATICALLY at system restart field, select yes to enable automatic mounting of the file system.

What is mount in aix?

The mount command instructs the operating system to make a file system available for use at a specified location (the mount point). The mount command mounts a file system expressed as a device using the device or node:directory parameter on the directory specified by the directory parameter.

What is LUN in AIX?

A lun in aix appears as an hdisk. lspv will show all configured disks and whether or not they are configured. to a volume group. lspv -l hdisk# will tell you what is on the hdisk if its. part of a volume group and the vg is online.

How do I scan Luns on AIX?

Now execute the below commands to scan the new lun. (Make sure the space is there between the hyphen in the echo command [echo “- – -” ] and you should do this for all HBAs. check the new lun added to the box with the help of new outputs of the following compared with the old output.

What is Cfgmgr in AIX?

The cfgmgr command configures devices and optionally installs device software into the system. The configurable devices are controlled by the Configuration Rules object class, which is part of the Device Configuration database.

How do I mount a shared folder in AIX?

Make sure the folder on the D: drive (in this case “share”) is shared and give the share a name (we’ll use “share” again as name in this example) and give “full control” permissions to “Everyone”. Create a mountpoint on the AIX machine to mount the windows share on, e.g. /mnt/share. You’re done!

How can I check iSCSI status in AIX?

Procedure

  1. Select Devices.
  2. Select iSCSI.
  3. Select iSCSI Protocol Device.
  4. Select Change / Show Characteristics of an iSCSI Protocol Device.
  5. Verify that the Initiator Name value is correct.
  6. The Maximum Targets Allowed field corresponds to the maximum number of iSCSI targets that can be configured.

How do you check Luns on AIX?

Answer

  1. This command will show the NetApp WWPN, AIX hdisk, NetApp LUN ID: aix-cn22:/# lscfg |grep NetApp.
  2. This command will show what Fibre Channel (FC) adapter is installed on this AIX server: aix-cn22:/ lsdev -C |grep FC.
  3. This command will show you the WWPN of the FC adapter: aix-cn22:/# lscfg -vl fcs0.
  4. FILER:

How to get the Lun’s information in Aix?

If u have EMC PowerPath installed, powermt display dev=all will map all the hdiskXX devs (which are in fact paths to the LUNS) with the hdiskpower devices and u can also get the wwn from there. You can use cat/grep/sed/awk to get the luns u need and use sort/uniq to get rid of any duplicates. Good luck.

How to get EMC Lun IDs from a Unix mount point?

The EMC PowerPath software contains a command that may help you. You can use the command ‘/etc/powermt display dev= ’ to work out which LUN names and Storage Groups are associated with a particular logical device.

Is the LUN id the same as the hdisk?

I suspect you will also find that the term “LUN ID” may hold various interpretations in the various technical disciplines (e.g. UNIX SA vs. Storage Admin), most of which will not coincide with the lun_id attribute of the hdisk (lsattr -El hdiskXX).