VTL - How to Find Hardware Compression Card Driver Version?

Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure

Solution 1337671.1 : VTL - How to Find Hardware Compression Card Driver Version?

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek VTL Plus Storage Appliance - Version: 2.0 - Build 1636 to 2.0 - Build 1656 - Release: 2.0 to 2.0
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

How to Find Hardware Compression Card Driver Version?

Following are different ways to find out the hardware compression driver version:

In Xray, look in message file for "h9630vtl_drv" bootup messages.

Example messages:
======================================
Jun 11 09:46:59 vtl1 h9630vtl_drv: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE:
Jun 11 09:46:59 vtl1 Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Jun 11 09:46:59 vtl1 SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTAL
Jun 11 09:46:59 vtl1 Use is subject to license terms.
Jun 11 09:46:59 vtl1 h9630vtl_drv: [ID 234749 kern.notice] NOTICE: HW Compression, Ver. 1.0.9
======================================
In Xray, look in pkginfo file for "SUNWh9630vtl".

Example entry:
system SUNWh9630vtl VTL HW Compresson Driver

Notice above example does not show version, this means it's the base version 1.09.
Below example is a later 1.12 version:
system SUNWh9630vtl_x64_v112 VTL HW Compresson Driver
From the VTL server, enter: pkginfo -l SUNWh9630vtl

Example output:
bash-3.00# pkginfo -l SUNWh9630vtl
PKGINST: SUNWh9630vtl
NAME: VTL HW Compresson Driver
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: i386
VERSION: Version 1.09
BASEDIR: /
PSTAMP: odc2720080708112242
INSTDATE: Nov 13 2009 15:00
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 3 installed pathnames
1 shared pathnames
2 executables
156 blocks used (approx)

Attachments

This solution has no attachment