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Correct Failover Mode for Clariion CX, RHEL6.2 & Volume Manager 6.0

I11team
Level 1

Hello,

as mentioned in the title we are using Veritas Cluster 6.0 an therefore Veritas Volume Manger 6.0 on our Redhat 6.2 systems. A Clariion CX4-240 storage system provides some LUNs' for the servers. Everything is working fine apart from several I/O errros in the messages:

Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdp, sector 0
Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: sd 8:0:5:0: [sdp] Device not ready
Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: sd 8:0:5:0: [sdp] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: sd 8:0:5:0: [sdp] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: sd 8:0:5:0: [sdp] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, manual intervention required
Aug 29 16:17:44 nwj8cnp001 kernel: sd 8:0:5:0: [sdp] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 3e 7f ff f8 00 00 08 00

All devices listed in the messages concern the secondary paths of the LUNs'.

We are using Failover Mode 1, does anyone know if this is causing those error messages? I have found the following information in an EMC document:

Failovermode may be set to 4 for ALUA behavior, or
Failovermode may be set to 1 for active/passive behavior

Do we have to change to Failovermode 4?

Regards,

Martin

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David_Wright_2
Level 3
Employee Accredited Certified

VxVM supports both failover mode 1 and 4. Please see the Hardware technote page 10:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH47728

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David_Wright_2
Level 3
Employee Accredited Certified

VxVM supports both failover mode 1 and 4. Please see the Hardware technote page 10:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH47728