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September 1st, 2010 05:00

Powerpath on AIX - ouput of the lspv command

Hi! we are migrating to EMC storage in the next weeks. Actual setup is connected to Hitachi storage.

Setup:

AIX 6.1 boot on SAN in a micro-partition with NPIV, 2 Hitachi disk one for rootvg, one for another vg (not setup yet) and Hitachi HDLM (Hitachi equivalent of powerpath). All disk connected with 4paths for each disk

I've removed HDLM and installed Powerpath according to EMC doc. No issue.

Few questions I'll like to get answers.

Now with Powerpath installed, I see 4 times the same hdisk plus the hdiskpower.

gaujf010@sxttst9999:/home/gaujf010$ lspv
hdisk0          none                                None           
hdisk8          none                                None           
hdisk9          none                                None           
hdisk10         none                                None           
hdiskpower0     00c055558fce3738                    rootvg          active
hdiskpower1     00c05555af6ea8a3                    None           
hdisk2          none                                None           
hdisk4          none                                None           
hdisk6          none                                None           
hdisk11         none                                None     

Am I suppose  to see (still) the hdisks or not?

Also I see some dead path to the non rootvg disk... why?


root@sxttst9999:/root# powermt display dev=all
Pseudo name=hdiskpower1
Hitachi ID=25287
Logical device ID=HITACHI R50062C700E9
state=alive; policy=ADaptive; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
---------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path -  -- Stats ---
###  HW Path                I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State  Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   3 fscsi3                    hdisk11   DF        active  alive      0      0
   0 fscsi0                    hdisk1    AF        active  dead       0      0
   0 fscsi0                    hdisk2    AF        active  alive      0      0
   1 fscsi1                    hdisk3    9F        active  dead       0      0
   1 fscsi1                    hdisk4    9F        active  alive      0      0
   2 fscsi2                    hdisk5    EF        active  dead       0      0
   2 fscsi2                    hdisk6    EF        active  alive      0      0
   3 fscsi3                    hdisk7    DF        active  dead       0      0

Pseudo name=hdiskpower0
Hitachi ID=25287
Logical device ID=HITACHI R50062C70221
state=alive; policy=ADaptive; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
---------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path -  -- Stats ---
###  HW Path                I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State  Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   0 fscsi0                    hdisk0    AF        active  alive      0      0
   3 fscsi3                    hdisk10   DF        active  alive      0      0
   1 fscsi1                    hdisk8    9F        active  alive      0      0
   2 fscsi2                    hdisk9    EF        active  alive      0      0

Tks.

September 1st, 2010 06:00

Ok thanks. I've run a powermt restore and check. Flushed the dead links and config is fine now.

Thanks.

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September 1st, 2010 06:00

Yes, you are supposed to see the amount (or representation) of hdisks-to-paths-per-devices underneath PowerPath. The PVID's did shift to the hdiskpower devices, so that is good. Also, give emc127140 a look because it is a good solution to try and rid the dead paths.. You might have some stale configuration in PowerPath because if you see the output, you'll notice 2 of the same storage interface.

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