This post is more than 5 years old
1 Rookie
•
100 Posts
0
3840
January 7th, 2010 08:00
Powerpath pseudo devices question
I am usingPowerpath 5.2 on Solaris 10. After doing 'powermt config' , the pseudo devices for my new luns appear on 'forma't like this:
52. emcpower0g
/pseudo/emcp@0
53. emcpower 1c
/pseudo/emcp@1
54. emcpower 2a
/pseudo/emcp@2
My question is how does powerpath pick which slice to use like 0g, 1c or 2a as above? I normally put all my clariion luns on slice 7 as below.
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 32766 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wu 0 - 32765 255.98MB (32766/0/0) 524256
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 - 32764 255.98MB (32765/0/0) 524240
partition>
BUT on powermt display, they all show as 'a':
Pseudo name=emcpower0a
CLARiiON ID=APM00043600813 [DB01]
Logical device ID=600601609BB81000D526026545EEDE11 [LUN 77]
state=alive; policy=BasicFailover; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
Owner: default=SP A, current=SP A Array failover mode: 1
Pseudo name=emcpower1a
CLARiiON ID=APM00043600813 [DB01]
Logical device ID=600601609BB81000D426026545EEDE11 [LUN 76]
state=alive; policy=BasicFailover; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
Owner: default=SP A, current=SP A Array failover mode: 1
Pseudo name=emcpower2a
CLARiiON ID=APM00043600813 [DB01]
Logical device ID=600601609BB81000D326026545EEDE11 [LUN 73]
state=alive; policy=BasicFailover; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
Owner: default=SP A, current=SP A Array failover mode: 1
is what we see on 'format' just a reference to the disk? because not all the luns are the same, some are a , c , g...etc. These LUNS will be used for oracle ASM. In the past, I have used this and all showed up as 'a' on 'format' and 'powermt display'. This is the first time I see all of them different on the format output.
Thank you in advance.