Hy all,
after upgrade PowerPath (from 5.2 to 5.2 SP 2) and then retry commands
to create zpool, it was executed successfully:
--
r...@solaris10# zpool history
History for 'tank':
2009-12-15.14:37:00 zpool create -f tank mirror emcpower7a emcpower5a
2009-12-15.14:37:20 zpool add tank mirror emcpower8a emcpower6a
2009-12-15.14:37:56 zpool add tank mirror emcpower1a emcpower3a
2009-12-15.14:38:09 zpool add tank mirror emcpower2a emcpower4a
r...@solaris10# zpool status
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower7a ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower5a ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower8a ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower6a ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower1a ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower3a ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower2a ONLINE 0 0 0
emcpower4a ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
--
before PowerPath Version was 5.2.0.GA.b146, now 5.2.SP2.b012:
--
r...@solaris10# pkginfo -l EMCpower
PKGINST: EMCpower
NAME: EMC PowerPath (Patched with 5.2.SP2.b012)
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 5.2.0_b146
BASEDIR: /opt
VENDOR: EMC Corporation
PSTAMP: beavis951018123443
INSTDATE: Dec 15 2009 12:53
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 339 installed pathnames
42 directories
123 executables
199365 blocks used (approx)
--
So the SP2 incorporated the fix about PowerPath and ZFS using pseudo
emcpower device.
Cesare
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Cindy Swearingen
<cindy.swearin...@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Cesare,
>
> According to our CR 6524163, this problem was fixed in PowerPath 5.0.2, but
> then the problem reoccurred.
>
> According to the EMC PowerPath Release notes, here:
>
> www.emc.com/microsites/clariion-support/pdf/300-006-626.pdf
>
> This problem is fixed in 5.2 SP1.
>
> I would review the related ZFS information in this doc before proceeding.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cindy
>
> On 12/14/09 03:53, Cesare wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Mike Johnston <mijoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info Alexander... I will test this out. I'm just
>>> wondering
>>> what it's going to see after I install Power Path. Since each drive will
>>> have 4 paths, plus the Power Path... after doing a "zfs import" how will
>>> I
>>> force it to use a specific path? Thanks again! Good to know that this
>>> can
>>> be done.
>>
>> I had in the last weeks a similar problem. I have on my testbed server
>> (Solaris 10.x Update4) PowerPath 5.2 that it's connected on two FC
>> switch and then to Clariion CX3.
>>
>> Each LUN on the Clariion create 4 path to the host. I created 8 LUN,
>> reconfigured Solaris for make them visible to the host and then tried
>> to create a ZFS pool. I encountered a problem when I run the command:
>>
>> --
>> # r...@solaris10# zpool status
>> pool: tank
>> state: ONLINE
>> scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Mon Dec 14 05:00:01 2009
>> config:
>>
>> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
>> tank ONLINE 0 0 0
>> mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
>> emcpower7a ONLINE 0 0 0
>> emcpower5a ONLINE 0 0 0
>> mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
>> emcpower8a ONLINE 0 0 0
>> emcpower6a ONLINE 0 0 0
>>
>> errors: No known data errors
>> r...@solaris10# zpool history
>> History for 'tank':
>> 2009-12-10.20:19:17 zpool create -f tank mirror emcpower7a emcpower5a
>> 2009-12-11.05:00:01 zpool scrub tank
>> 2009-12-11.14:28:33 zpool add tank mirror emcpower8a emcpower6a
>> 2009-12-14.05:00:01 zpool scrub tank
>>
>> r...@solaris10# zpool add tank mirror emcpower3a emcpower1a
>> internal error: Invalid argument
>> Abort (core dumped)
>> r...@solaris#
>> --
>>
>> Next task will be to upgrade PowerPath (from 5.2 to 5.2 SP 2) and then
>> retry the command to see if the problem (internal error) will be
>> disappear. Anybody did have a similar problem?
>>
>> Cesare
>
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