topic Re: device to array mapping in Operating System - HP-UX

device to array mapping

anidil — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:35:18 GMT

Guys

I have a bunch luns coming from two different EVAs. I am having hard time in identifying which device is from which array. Could somebody give some idea?

I know the WWN of both the arrays. Attaching IOSCAN and fcmsutil output

Thanks

Re: device to array mapping

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:08:27 GMT

Shalom,

11.31 only.

ioscan -m hwpath

ioscan -m dsf

The first command includes hardware path and WWN. That should help you sort it out.

SEP

Re: device to array mapping

BUPA IS — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:15:29 GMT

hello
Since you are on 11.31
ioscan -P wwid -Cdisk will list all the world wide names and
ioscan -m dsf will list the old to new name mappings.
Please see man ioscan for details and
also have a read of man lvm and man 7 intro which explain how the disk names are used.

I hope this helps
mike

Re: device to array mapping

Vishu — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:38 GMT

Hi anidil,

**** I have a bunch luns coming from two different EVAs. *********

you have two FC cards at path 0/3/1/0 and 0/7/1/0. so simply you can know that the LUNs coming from 0/3/1/0 are coming from 1st array and from 0/7/1/0 are coming from 2nd array. Because one FC is connected to one array only.

Re: device to array mapping

TTr — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:36:44 GMT

Every storage array comes with utilities that you load and run on the server OS to get a array-LUN to OS-disk mapping. I don't work with EVAs but I think the commandView/EVA and/or something called sssu is what you need to install on the server. Search on the HP site for details.

Re: device to array mapping

anidil — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:27 GMT

Hi Vishnu,

Normally both arrays are zoned to both the HBAs. Otherwise how do we get redundancy?

Thanks

Re: device to array mapping

Torsten. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:56:20 GMT

I would suggest to use evainfo.

# evainfo
usage: evainfo [-a|-d ] [-l] [-f fmt][-u KB|MB|GB][-w [-W][-g
]
-a : Display information for all EVA Luns presented to this host.
-d : Display information for the specified EVA Lun.
-l : Display information in long/full format.
-v : Display EVAInfo tool version details.
-f : Specify output format. The supported values for are:
tab (default)
csv
-u : Specify output format for Capacity {KB|MB|GB}, default is MB.
-W : Collate output based on WWN of Luns.
-w : Display information for the specified Lun WWN.
-g : Use SCSI generic (sg) interface on Linux.
-h : Help

Re: device to array mapping

Tim Nelson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:28:09 GMT

Another handy trick.

your HW address will indicate what eva by which port it is connected to on the switch.

e.g.
0/2/1/0.10.0.0.0.1 EVA plugged into port 0
or
0/7/1/0.20.16.0.0.1 EVA plugged into port 16

Re: device to array mapping

anidil — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:40:46 GMT

Hi Tim for the cool trick. This helps.

Thanks to other also who suggested new 11.31 commands. I used below commands to make a correlation.

-) ioscan -m lun /dev/rdisk/disk###

-) ioscan -m dsf /dev/rdisk/disk###

Re: device to array mapping

anidil — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:04:40 GMT

Method 1)

Map the switch port # from the hardware path to the port where the array is connected. So, if you know which array is connected to the specific port, then we know the device corresponding to that hardware path belongs to that array.

for e.g: 12 is the switch port where one of the EVA port is connected and I know which array is plugged on to FC switch port 12.

disk 129 0/7/1/0.39.12.0.0.0.7 sdisk

Method 2) Run below commands and make a correlation if you know EVA controller WWW port numbers.

-) ioscan -m lun /dev/rdisk/disk###

-) ioscan -m dsf /dev/rdisk/disk###

Thanks

Re: device to array mapping

Torsten. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:44:44 GMT

I still think evainfo delivers exactly what you want - try it!