I am very new to veritas. We have AIX 7.1 server using veritas DMP. When I look at the VIO all of the virtual fibre channel adapters are logged in, but on the lpar it is failing to see any disks on fscsi0 and fscsi1. I have been going back and forth ...
Hello All, The dmp 5.1SP1PR2 installation is completing but it unable to start it. getting follwing error Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing Startup did not complete successfully vxdmp failed to start on ddci-oml1 vxio failed to start on ddci-oml1 v...
Hi, I have an question on scsi alua handler and VxDMP on Linux. we have a scsi_dh_alua handler on linux, which can handle the ALUA related check conditions sent from target controllers. so this will be handled by scsi layer itself and will not be ...
Dear Gents, I have recently installed DMP 5.1 SP1 RP2 on a rhel 6.3 os x86_64, after the installation when i took a reboot the system got hung during the boot time. i found the follwoing error message from teh console. "this release of vxted doesno...
Goodafternoon, We are in the progress of doing an upgrade to our STKSUN 6180 disk array to firmware version 07.84.44.10. In the release notes of this firmware we run into the following challenge : Solaris Issues Solaris with Veritas DMP or other...
Goodmorning, I have issue that I can't seem to solve and I'm dire need of assistance. I have veritas cluster 5.1 running on solaris 10 connected to an 6180 storage array. The array is directly connected to 2 hotsts. (no switch!). Controller port 1A i...
Hi experts, I'm using SFRAC 6.0.3 on Oracle Linux 5.8 with Oracle storage (2 HBA cards, 4 paths) and would like to make the DMP subpaths persistent after rebooting. I knew that for single path I can write the following udev rule: KERNEL=="sd*", BUS==...
Ok, I'm somewhat confused and the more I read the more confused I think I'm getting. I'm going to be setting up a 4 node active/active cluster for SQL. All of the nodes will have 2 seperate fiber channel HBAs connecting through 2 seperate switches t...
What is the recommended setting for the Load Balance Policy for a SQL environment? Or, where can I find more information about the available settings? Thanks!
Wondering why disk 2 show slice 2 whereas the other subpaths show only disk? Does this mean that this disk has been formatted/labeled differently? They all should be labeled EFI. [2250]$ vxdisk path SUBPATH DANAME ...
HI, OS RHEL 5.5 - Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 RP2 (VCS) .The big quetion is about the two dmp.Can they coexist together or there are some issue on path failover? Best Regard Vincent
This is more like an informational question, since I do not assume anyone has a solution, but just in case I would be thankfull for some enlightment: I am forced to use an old Version SF4.1MP4 in this case on Linux SLES9. For whatever reason DMP does...
I recently recrated a LUN with a different size but the same LUN ID (Linux SLES11) and when trying to initialize it as a new disk to VxVM I keeps sticking to the old size, whatever I do (I tried to destroy and reinitialize in different formats and g...
Hi! I'm installing several new SFHACFS clusters and during the failover testing I run into annoying problem - when I fence one node of the cluster, DMP logs high number of path down/path up events which in the end causes the disk to disconnect even...
Hi all, just to understand the way DMP manages devices. We want to use DMP devices inside zpools. So I enabled the dmp_native_support and disabled the MPxIO. Everything seems to work the right way. However in the format (solaris 10) I see dmp devices...
Hi experts, In the section of Known Issues, I found "A system can hang or panic in a SAN boot environment due to udev device removal after loss of connectivity to some paths on RedHat Linux6(RHEL6)(2219626)". How could I know it's the exact same situ...
Hello All, My environment has a total of 48 drives. But theres only 12-13 drives that actually write and become "Active". The majority of drives state "TLD" and under the "Ready" column, it has "NO". Some drives have multiple paths to servers and ...
We are going to change the DMP IOPOLICY for our IBM XIV storage from Balanced to Round-Robin. We are also going to set use_all_path=yes. Do these commands require a reboot (Solaris). I checked the VXVM Admin guide and can't see anything about this...
Hi, In the Release Notes of SF5.1, there is a statement "When all of the Primary paths fail or are disabled in a non-Active/Active array in a CVM cluster, the cluster-wide failover is triggered. All hosts in the cluster start using the Secondary p...
Hi, Q1. Please refer to the following message, this message appeared when a device path under DMP control came back online: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-148 enabled path 118/0x60 belonging to the dmpnode 322/0x18 I can find the dmpnode - "322/0x18" by l...
