Fixing mpxio Multipathing
07 June 2012

When presenting LUNs from a new EMC VNX array to Solaris 10 hosts, we found that mpxio wasn’t successfully multipathing everything. We’re using two arrays, with four paths to each. We should be seeing two multipahted LUNs, but for one set, we see eight single paths.

# inq | grep VRAID
/dev/rdsk/c2t5006016146E07350d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c2t5006016146E07785d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c2t5006016846E07350d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c2t5006016846E07785d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c3t5006016046E07350d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c3t5006016046E07785d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c3t5006016946E07350d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c3t5006016946E07785d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c4t600601600DC02D00FA03 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :604FAA85 : 152417280
/dev/rdsk/c4t600601600DC02D00FC03 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :614FAA85 : 419430400
/dev/rdsk/c4t6006016062502E000EA7 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :604FAA71 : 152417280
/dev/rdsk/c4t6006016062502E0010A7 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :614FAA71 : 419430400

These are live systems, so a reboot is out of the question. But, you can give mpxio another shot at realizing what it should do by using cfgadm to unconfigure, then configure the problematic LUNs.

I’ll use /dev/rdsk/c2t5006016146E07785d0s2 as an example.

# cfgadm -al -o show_SCSI_LUN | grep -i  5006016146E07785
c2::5006016146e07785,0       disk       connected    configured   unknown
c2::5006016146e07785,1       disk       connected    configured   unknown
c2::5006016146e07785,2       disk       connected    configured   unknown
# cfgadm -c unconfigure c2::5006016146e07785

Once they’re all unconfigured, configure them

# cfgadm -al | grep "disk.*uncon" | while read a b
> do
> print $a
> cfgadm -c configure $a
> done

And everything should be multipathed.

# inq | grep VRAID
/dev/rdsk/c4t600601600DC02D004244214555A3E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c4t600601600DC02D00FA039A1CE799E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :604FAA85 : 152417280
/dev/rdsk/c4t600601600DC02D00FC039A1CE799E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :614FAA85 : 419430400
/dev/rdsk/c4t6006016062502E00AAE7E01F55A3E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :C44FBA57 : 372244480
/dev/rdsk/c4t6006016062502E000EA78F00DB99E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :604FAA71 : 152417280
/dev/rdsk/c4t6006016062502E0010A78F00DB99E111d0s2 :DGC :VRAID :0531 :614FAA71 : 419430400

Now if someone could give me a way to stop it happening in the first place…

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