James,

Can you create LUNs with the SnapDrive installation on your CentOS 6.2 box? If not what error messages do you receive. Do you plan on using some 3rd party product that integrates with MySQL and utilizes the NetApp snaps for DB backups?

Regards,

Dan

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse typos. 

On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:00 PM, tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:35:22 -0600
> From: James Louis <jglouisjr at gmail.com>
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: [tclug-list] emulex lpe 11002-e to netapp (snapdrive) howto
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am looking for a definitive howto on getting anEmulex LPE 11002-e fibre
> card to work with NetApp's Snapdrive. Trying to follow directions from the
> two companies support site is like trying to dig a tunnel starting at both
> ends and meeting in the middle. But the middle isn't defined.
> 
> If anyone has knowledge on getting these two to work together and would
> care to share that would be great.
> 
> I'm using CentOS 6.2 and the drivers appear to be present. I can get the
> WWN numbers which I've supplied to my network group.
> 
> Any help is appreciated. I hate to be stumbling around trying to get this
> to work. You would think this would be old hat at this point.
> 
> I know when I did this for EMC and Oracle RAC there was a step by step
> provided by Oracle. In this case we will be using MySQL and I can't find
> anything straight forward.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
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