Installation Checklist for EBS components

When you have completed the SAN configuration, review the questions below to ensure that all components on the SAN are logged in and configured properly. You must be able to answer yes to each of the following questions. If you answer no to any of these questions, review the information in this document. 

• Are all hardware components at the minimum supported firmware revision, including: Server, HBA, Fibre Channel Switch, Fibre Channel to SCSI Router, Interface Manager, Command View ESL, tape drives, library robot?

• Are all recommended HP-UX patches, service packs, quality packs or hardware enablement bundles installed on the host?

• Is the minimum supported HBA driver loaded on the host?

• Are all tape and robotic devices mapped, configured and presented to the host from the Fibre Channel to SCSI Router, or Interface Manager?

• Is the tape library online?

• Is the Fibre Channel to SCSI router correctly logged into the Fibre Channel Switch?

• Is the host HBA correctly logged into the Fibre Channel Switch?

• If multiple Fibre Channel switches are cascaded or meshed, are all ISL ports correctly logged in?

• If using zoning on the Fibre Channel Switch, is the server HBA and Tape Library's Fibre Channel to SCSI Router in the same switch zone (either by WWN or by switch Port)?

• If using zoning on the Fibre Channel Switch, has the zone been added to the active switch
configuration?

Configuring switch zoning
If you intend to use zoning on the switch, either by World Wide Name or by port, perform the setup after the HBA has logged into the fabric. Refer to the Fibre Channel switch documentation for complete switch zone setup information. Ensure that the World Wide Name (WWN) or port of the Fibre-Channel-to-SCSI bridge is in the same zone as the WWN or port of the HBA installed in the server.