zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread Shumate, Scott
I'm running into issues adding zFCP LUNS to a clustered zLinux server. The primary servers sees the disk with no issues and have multipath'ing turned on. Both servers should be pointing to the same scsi disk. What am I missing? Any ideas? I've tried rebooting with no results. I do see the

Re: zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Simms
From: Shumate, Scott scshum...@bbandt.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:04 PM Subject: zFCP question for RHEL54 I'm running into issues adding zFCP LUNS to a clustered zLinux server.  The primary servers sees the disk with

Re: zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread Raymond Higgs
Scott, Dec 6 14:28:15 wil-zstsccdbtstbu01 kernel: zfcp: warning: failed gid_pn nameserver request for wwpn 0x50060e800571f006 for adapter 0.0.dc00 Dec 6 14:28:15 wil-zstsccdbtstbu01 kernel: zfcp: port erp failed (adapter 0.0.dc00, wwpn=0x50060e800571f006) The nameserver is a service that

Re: zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread Shumate, Scott
There are 2 CECs involved. Each CEC has 4 fibre connections, 2 in one switch and 2 in another. In our HDS box, we have 4 ports fibre cards (2 in one switch and 2 in the other). The way its zoned is 4 connections from the CECs (2 from one CEC and 2 from the other) is zoned to 2 port on the HDS

Re: zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread Raymond Higgs
Scott, The tools have changed over time. I don't remember what is in rhel 5.4... Have you tried to use san_disc or lsluns on the failing linux system? These are tools to explore what you can see out in the fabric. Zoning comes in a few flavors. There is port zoning where you designate switch

Re: zFCP question for RHEL54

2011-12-06 Thread òåôø áøåê
Hi, i think that is exactly your problem. If i got it right you are not using npiv. That means that all guests are using the same wwpn to the fabric on a spesific cec. 2 linux guests on the same cec cant access the same luns at the same time. The first guesr in the cec to access the luns wins.