Mutiple paths down one fibre card

[Barry Sollitt]

I have attached a new server to our SAN and the ioscan shows mutiple paths to the HSV controllers through my A6795A card.

ctl 4 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.0.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t0d0
ctl 5 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.1.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t1d0
ctl 6 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.2.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t2d0
ctl 7 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.3.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t3d0
ctl 8 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.4.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t4d0
ctl 9 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.5.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t5d0
ctl 10 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.6.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t6d0
ctl 11 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t7d0
ctl 12 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.8.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t8d0
ctl 13 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.9.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t9d0
ctl 14 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.10.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t10d0
ctl 15 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.11.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t11d0
ctl 16 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.12.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t12d0
ctl 17 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.13.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t13d0
ctl 18 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.14.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t14d0
ctl 19 0/4/1/0.1.30.0.0.15.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c6t15d0
ctl 20 0/4/1/0.1.30.255.0.0.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c7t0d0
ctl 21 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.0.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t0d0
ctl 22 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.1.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t1d0
ctl 23 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.2.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t2d0
ctl 24 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.3.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t3d0
ctl 25 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.4.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t4d0
ctl 26 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.5.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t5d0
ctl 27 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.6.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t6d0
ctl 28 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t7d0
ctl 29 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.8.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t8d0
ctl 30 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.9.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t9d0
ctl 31 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.10.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t10d0
ctl 32 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.11.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t11d0
ctl 33 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.12.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t12d0
ctl 34 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.13.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t13d0
ctl 35 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.14.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t14d0
ctl 36 0/4/1/0.1.31.0.0.15.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c8t15d0
ctl 37 0/4/1/0.1.31.255.0.0.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE COMPAQ HSV1
10 (C)COMPAQ
/dev/rscsi/c9t0d0

I presented one vdisk and securepath recognises the one disk with all the paths as you would expect.


root@datapro1 [/] : spmgr display
Server: datapro1 Report Created: Wed, Apr 06 11:19:37 2005
Command: spmgr display
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Storage: 5000-1FE1-5001-99E0
Load Balance: Off Auto-restore: Off
Path Verify: On Verify Interval: 30
HBAs: fcd0 td1
Controller: P5849D4AAOZ03F, Operational
P5849D4AAOZ00T, Operational
Devices: c16t0d0

TGT/LUN Device WWLUN_ID H/W_Path #_Paths
0/ 0 c16t0d0 6005-08B4-0001-1776-0000-A000-011D-0000 36
255/255/0/0.0
Controller Path_Instance HBA Preferred? Path_Status
P5849D4AAOZ03F no
c13t0d1 fcd0 no Active
c6t0d1 td1 no Available
c6t1d1 td1 no Available
c6t2d1 td1 no Available
c6t3d1 td1 no Available
c6t4d1 td1 no Available
c6t5d1 td1 no Available
c6t6d1 td1 no Available
c6t7d1 td1 no Available
c6t8d1 td1 no Available
c6t9d1 td1 no Available
c6t10d1 td1 no Available
c6t11d1 td1 no Available
c6t12d1 td1 no Available
c6t13d1 td1 no Available
c6t14d1 td1 no Available
c6t15d1 td1 no Available
c7t0d1 td1 no Available

Controller Path_Instance HBA Preferred? Path_Status
P5849D4AAOZ00T no
c12t0d1 fcd0 no Standby
c8t0d1 td1 no Standby
c8t1d1 td1 no Standby
c8t2d1 td1 no Standby
c8t3d1 td1 no Standby
c8t4d1 td1 no Standby
c8t5d1 td1 no Standby
c8t6d1 td1 no Standby
c8t7d1 td1 no Standby
c8t8d1 td1 no Standby
c8t9d1 td1 no Standby
c8t10d1 td1 no Standby
c8t11d1 td1 no Standby
c8t12d1 td1 no Standby
c8t13d1 td1 no Standby
c8t14d1 td1 no Standby
c8t15d1 td1 no Standby
c9t0d1 td1 no Standby


Can anyone tell me why I can see so many ctl instances down one path on /dev/td0. The alternative controller on /dev/fcd0 has the one instance you would expect.

/dev/td0 is the A6795A
/dev/fcd0 is the combo card with 1Gb ether.

Cheers

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

Did you set the operating system type to HP-UX on your Host entry and reboot the server?

[Bostjan Kosi]

OS type is probably set to windows. If you will connect only HP-ux servers to this EVA, you can also change default OS offered by Command View so it will no longer show windows by default.

BR
B.

[Barry Sollitt]

Ahh...Thank you gentlemen...

The switch had some old port based zone sets for what used to be a windows server and the default was also windows.

Thought I was going crazy....

Respect.