[linux-lvm] How to associate two paths for each EMC device?

[Dan_Caulfield at Dell.com]

This is normal behavior for multipath devices.  The OS will "see" the 22
luns on all available paths.  The is the way EMC PowerPath, Veritas DMP
and LVM work.  Each of these products rely on the OS detecting all
available paths to the luns.  EMC PowerPath uses the device the
Symmetrix pdev id of each lun to identify multiple paths to a device.
LVM will use the PV UUIDs to identify the multipath devices.  

For EMC arrays, there is a version of inq that will run on Linux.  You
will just need to make enough sg devices for it to recognize all 44
devices.  The inq utility will help you to determine which pdev is
associated to which sd device. See EMC Powerlink Doc emc59180 for all of
the details.


Regards,
Dan

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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to associate two paths for each EMC device?


The very basic way to identify the pair is to lvm each of the first 22
luns in a sequence and see which lun in the other 22 set is also lvm'ed.

However, there must be a more technical way to resolve this and
eventually make the disk represent only once.  Any guru out there can
help?

Regards,
Shan Jing

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:21:51PM -0500, Shan Jing wrote:
> I have 22  EMC symmetrix disks on two HBA links.  At this moment,
there is no working copy of EMC powerpath or HP Securepath available for
my kernel (2.4.21-112-itanium2-smp); therefore, I have to use the luns
directly with lvm without any DMP software in the middle.
>
> Without DMP software, there are two set of 22 luns, each representing
one HBA path.  See blow.

Can you set your HBA driver to do failover?   ie: something like this
in modules.conf:

options qla2300 ql2xfailover=1 ql2xmaxqdepth=64


This works well for my servers connected to a CX-series array. :)   The
driver handles failing between HBAs (active-passive), and only has the
LUN presented once to the system.

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