Issue while creating devices in VMAX

Hello,

The team is going to move this thread to the Support Forums Community where your question can be addressed.

Thanks,

Stephanie

Hello,

We have moved your question to the Symmetrix Support Forum where it should receive prompt attention.

Thanks,

Bob.

since you have mainframe adapters in your box (whether you use them or not) you need to specify ssid when creating new device. You can list available ssid with this command:

symcfg list -sid 123 -ssid

I am trying to create the devices from a windows managment host. Its allowing me to create devices once i specify the mvs_ssid value.

But will i be able to discover those created devices once i mask them to my windows management host ?

yes,  as long as you are creating FBA devices you can present them to any open systems.

Thanks for the info. I am having trouble to find out which FA port my windows managment host is coonected to to my VMAX array.

Is mvs_ssid has to do anything with it ? Can you tell how to find out the FA port my windows host is connected to ?

Below is my connections output :

AIXFCOE10g# symcfg list -connections -sid 62

Symmetrix ID:    000192603062

  Symmetrix                                Host

-------------  -----------------------------------------------------------

Director Port  Node Name     IP Address      HW Type  OS Name  OS Revision

-------- ----  ------------- --------------- -------- -------- -----------

UN-1A     0    HK192603062   0.0.0.1         i686     WinNT-SP 5.1.2600

FA-5E     0    smc-server    10.241.209.168  i686     WinNT    5.2.3790

FA-11E    0    cluster1      *:bea7:92f:9acf i686     WinNT    6.0.6002

FA-11E    1    r300-4        0.0.0.1         i686     Unknown  6.0.6002

FA-12E    0    AIXFCOE10g    10.241.213.107  00F65F0  AIX      7.1

EF-7G     0    AOSB          10.241.208.214  2817     Unknown  MVS: 07.01

EF-12G    0    AOSB          10.241.208.214  2817     Unknown  MVS: 07.01

the AIX box is showing mapped to Dir 12E port 0. But below is my symmaccess list hbas output :

AIXFCOE10g# symaccess list hbas

Identifier        Physical Device Path              Symmetrix ID  Dir:P

----------------  --------------------------------  ------------  -----

10000000c9aa09d8  N/A                               N/A           N/A

10000000c9aa09d9  N/A                               N/A           N/A

10000000c9aa0642  N/A                               N/A           N/A

10000000c9aa0643  N/A                               N/A           N/A

Now I am not sure if the HBAs are logging in ot not ?

Hi,

Check : symaccess -sid xx list logins

Thanks

Amita

Hi,

To list the HBA of your host and FA port its connected to use commad:

symaccess list hba

Thanks

Amita

If you are running PowerPath on the host then a powermt display dev=all will show you which Fas are in use.

The INQ utility (available at ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/symm3000/inquiry) has a switch –et that will also display the Fas the host is connected to. Note that multipathed devices under the control of PowerPath will only appear once.

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Worldwide Technical Support – OSAPI Windows

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Run below listed command to find out the FA.  If you don't know HBA WWN, run this command to gather the HBA WWNs

#symaccess -sid 123 list logins | grep -i  ==> This will work if you have generated alias name for WWN (User generated name)

#symaccess -sid 123 list logins -wwn  -v  ==> This will give you the details you are looking for.