multipath configuration problems with Oracle VM

Colin Schuster colin.schuster at gmail.com
Thu May 1 13:13:42 CDT 2008


Have you zoned both HBA's so they can see the target luns?  Each HBA
has a unique WWN and needs to be zoned seperately.


On 30/04/2008, Parry, Graham <gparry at fsc-int.com> wrote:
> No I have not installed powerpath... I was but could not as it was giving me
> dependency problems and I could not find all the rpms it needed... So I
> installed the latest 8.08 qlogic driver, and scli, recompiled the kernel ,
> and tried to configure multipath as per this document
> www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/ovm_ref_config_final.pdf
>
> However no matter what I do when I use the multipath -v2 -ll command it only
> show me one path....
>
> However if I use the scli it shows me both hbas fine ....
>
> I have also downloaded and run ql-dynamic-tgt-lun-disc-2.5 tool of qlogic
> and it seems to scan both hba's but only ever finds luns on the first one...
>
> Thanks for your reply....
>
>
>
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>
> Graham Parry
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> From: Paul M. Dyer [mailto:pmdyer at ctgcentral2.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:21 PM
> To: Parry, Graham
> Cc: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Re: multipath configuration problems with Oracle VM
>
> Have you install PowerPath?   We usually see devices as /dev/emcpowera, etc.
>  At that point you can view the paths with "powermt display" and "powermt
> display dev=all"
>
> Paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Parry" <gparry at fsc-int.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:07:17 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: multipath configuration problems with Oracle VM
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