LUN Addresses on a FA Port available for mapping

LUN Addresses on a FA Port available for mapping

Before you are ready to map devices to an FA Port via command line (symcli) you will need to determine what LUN (hyper) addresses are available out there for mapping purposes (unused).

symcfg list -sid xxxx -FA dir -P port -available -addresses

Parameters

xxxx is the last 4 digits of the symmetrix serial number
dir is the FA director number eg 4B
port is the FA’s port number ie 0 or 1

This will produce an output that will indicate all available addresses, a range of available addresses with an asterisk (*). Also the LUN (hyper) addresses displayed in this output are hexadecimal values.

For example, in the output below, the available LUN (hyper) addresses are 06 through 24, 29 through 7F and greater than 83.

Symmetrix ID: 000185701867 (Local)
Director Device Name Attr Address
—— ——– —- —- ——– —– — —–
Ident Symbolic Port Sym Physical VBUS TID LUN
—— ——– —- —- ——– —– — —–
FA-4B 04B 0 0000 Not Visible VCM 0 0 000
0901 Not Visible 0 0 001
0902 Not Visible 0 0 002
0903 Not Visible 0 0 003
0904 Not Visible 0 0 004
0905 Not Visible 0 0 005
- AVAILABLE 0 0 006 *
0925 Not Visible 0 0 025
0926 Not Visible 0 0 026
0927 Not Visible 0 0 027
0928 Not Visible 0 0 028
- AVAILABLE 0 0 029 *
0980 Not Visible 0 0 080
0981 Not Visible 0 0 081
0982 Not Visible 0 0 082
0983 Not Visible 0 0 083
- AVAILABLE 0 0 084 *