Second controller

[Torsten.]

You are right, terminology is a world of it's own and can create real trouble.

Anyway, the VA is a HP classic and just like all other (original) hp arrays active/active.

This means both controllers are able to access disks/LUNs at the same time.

[Deborah Weatherspoon]

Here is output:

[Torsten.]

Your array could take some maintenance.
The firmware is old (HP19 vs. HP22), the disk firmware is likely old, the battery charger fw is different (!), I guess commandview is old too.

But this is not the current problem (but the command output you posted is not like expected).

Can you post "ioscan -fn" and "vgdisplay -v" to complete the picture?

[Deborah Weatherspoon]

Here's the output


Thanks for your help.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

What GBIC was bad?

Your vg03 does not have an alternate path!

You need to
vgextend /dev/vg03 /dev/dsk/c8t1d5
and sort the pathes.
(vgreduce the c10t1d5 and vgextend again to make it the alternate) - make sure to transfer this information to the other node too.

I assume switch port 18 is connected to controller 1 of the VA - this not clear to me yet.



This server can access the vg03 only via 1 path. If this fails, there is no access.

Check the other nodes "vgdisplay -v" output for "alternate links"!

[Deborah Weatherspoon]

Thanks Torsten.... I'll vgextend

[Deborah Weatherspoon]

I will have to vgextend... The members were great in answering my question....

[Torsten.]

You are welcome!

Just an additional note.
Check the output of
# strings /etc/lvmtab
You should see c8txdy and c10txdy for each vg (except vg00).
If not, adjust it.
I assume you are aware about the procedure how to transfer the LVM config from one cluster node to the others.