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Switching From RDAC To MPIO For DSXX00 SAN Array

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Management SAN MPxIO
Julien Gabel
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Julien Gabel
Multi-platform UNIX systems administrator and consultant in mutualized and virtualized environments.

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User array name = ‘CUSTOMERSOFT’ dac0 ACTIVE dac5 ACTIVE

Disk DAC LUN Logical Drive utm 127 hdisk7 dac5 6 beastie1_oracle hdisk14 dac5 13 beastie2_datavg hdisk15 dac0 14 beastie3_datavg hdisk2 dac0 1 beastie3_rootvg hdisk3 dac0 2 beastie4_rootvg hdisk4 dac5 3 beastie5_rootvg hdisk5 dac5 4 beastie2_rootvg hdisk6 dac0 5 bakup hdisk8 dac0 7 customer1 hdisk9 dac0 8 customer3 hdisk10 dac5 9 customer6 hdisk11 dac0 10 customer14 hdisk12 dac5 11 beastie2_db2 hdisk13 dac0 12 beastie3_scheduler hdisk16 dac0 15 customer9 hdisk17 dac0 16 customer8

Listing of the disks as seen from the operating system:

# lsdev -Cc disk | grep DS
hdisk2  Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk3  Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk4  Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk5  Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk6  Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk7  Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk8  Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk9  Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk10 Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk11 Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk12 Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk13 Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk14 Available 02-00-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk15 Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk16 Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device
hdisk17 Available 00-08-02 1814     DS4700 Disk Array Device

Switch to a multipath management for the SAN volumes presented from the DS4700/DS4200 arrays:

# manage_disk_drivers -c 4
DS4700/DS4200 currently RDAC/fcparray
Change to alternate driver? [Y/N] Y
DS4700/DS4200 now managed by MPIO

It is necessary to perform a bosboot before rebooting the system in
order to incorporate this change into the boot image.


In order to change to the new driver, either a reboot or a full
unconfigure and reconfigure of all devices of the type changed
must be performed.

Reboot the system:

# bosboot –a
bosboot: Boot image is 39636 512 byte blocks.


shutdown –Fr 
    

    
    
        #
            
    



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Verification of the new multipath configuration:

# manage_disk_drivers
1: DS4100: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
2: DS4300: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
3: DS4500: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
4: DS4700/DS4200: currently MPIO; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
5: DS4800: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO

Listing of the disks from the array:

# mpio_get_config -vA
Frame id 0:
    Storage Subsystem worldwide name: 60ab80016253400009786efca
    Controller count: 2
    Partition count: 1
    Partition 0:
    Storage Subsystem Name = 'CUSTOMERSOFT'
        hdisk      LUN #   Ownership          User Label
        hdisk0         1   A (preferred)      beastie3_rootvg
        hdisk1         2   A (preferred)      beastie4_rootvg
        hdisk2         3   B (preferred)      beastie5_rootvg
        hdisk3         4   B (preferred)      beastie2_rootvg
        hdisk4         5   A (preferred)      bakup
        hdisk5         6   B (preferred)      beastie1_oracle
        hdisk6        16   A (preferred)      customer8
        hdisk7         7   A (preferred)      customer1
        hdisk8         8   A (preferred)      customer3
        hdisk9         9   B (preferred)      customer6
        hdisk10       10   A (preferred)      customer14
        hdisk11       11   B (preferred)      beastie2_db2
        hdisk12       12   A (preferred)      beastie3_scheduler
        hdisk13       13   B (preferred)      beastie2_datavg
        hdisk14       14   A (preferred)      beastie3_datavg
        hdisk15       15   A (preferred)      customer9

Listing of the disks as seen from the operating system:

# lsdev -Cc disk | grep DS
hdisk0  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk1  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk2  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk3  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk4  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk5  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk6  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk7  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk8  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk9  Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk10 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk11 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk12 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk13 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk14 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk15 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk
hdisk16 Available 06-08-02 MPIO Other DS4K Array Disk

That's it.

Here is a simple procedure switching from a RDAC/fcparray management mode to a MPIO multipath mode for SAN disks presented from an IBM DSXX00 array.

Verification of the current monopath configuration:

# manage_disk_drivers
1: DS4100: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
2: DS4300: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
3: DS4500: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
4: DS4700/DS4200: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO
5: DS4800: currently RDAC; supported: RDAC/fcparray, MPIO

Listing of the disks from the array:

# fget_config -vA