Asset ID:	1-71-1132974.1
Update Date:	2011-08-01
Keywords:

---

Solution Type  Technical Instruction Sure

Solution  1132974.1 :   VTL - How to use Santricity by way of TCP port forwards  

In this Document
  Goal
  Solution

---

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek VTL Plus Storage Appliance - Version: 1.0 - Build 1323 to 2.0 - Build 1656 - Release: 1.0 to 2.0
Information in this document applies to any platform.
.
***Checked for relevance on 09-05-2011*** (dd-mm-yyyy)

Goal

How to use SANtricity on VTL Plus by way of TCP port forwards
How to configure the disk on the VTL Plus remotely
SANtricity Storage Manager

Solution

Open two terminal windows.

SSH to each node of the VTL+

On both VTL+ nodes do the following:

1. modify the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file (you must be root to do this)

Change from:

# Port forwarding
AllowTcpForwarding no

to:

# Port forwarding
AllowTcpForwarding yes

** If you don't have a second Node in your VTL+ then you can use another Linux/Solaris server in your LAN

2. Run: (You must be root to do this. Optionally, you could reboot the server instead.)

# svcadm restart ssh

3. On the first server run this command: (Any user can do this. It will return to a shell prompt, leave this open for now.)

# ssh localhost -L 2463:10.0.0.1:2463 -g
The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is f4:07:41:05:a8:1e:03:e1:ea:xx:xx:xx:xx:2a:4d:67.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
(you might or might not see the warning, if you've done this before...)


4. On the second server run this command: (Note: this one is 10.0.0.2. Any user can do this. It will return to a shell prompt, leave this open for now.)

# ssh localhost -L 2463:10.0.0.2:2463 -g
The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is f4:07:41:05:a8:1e:03:e1:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:2a:4d:67.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
(you might or might not see the warning, if you've done this before...)

** If you don't have a second Node in your VTL+ then you can use another Linux/Solaris server in your LAN
In this case use the following command:
ssh [email protected] -L 2463:10.0.0.2:2463 -g

Where 129.yyy.xxx.223 is the IP address of your VTL+ Node, above, and user is a valid user.

5. Run SANtricity on another system on the same network. When adding disk, put in IP addresses for both VTL nodes.
(If you only have one, put in the address of the vtl+ node for one controller, and the IP address of your other server as the other controller)

6. When done managing disk, type exit in both nodes, twice.

(If desired, you can change back step 1 to "no" and re-run step 2)


Attachments

This solution has no attachment