Can't add alternate path to VG on 11.31

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Go speak to youe EMC support guys and ask them if they have the SPC-3 bit set on the FA ports on the Symmetrix that talk to the 11iv3 host.

IIRC if the SPC-3 bit isn't set, then an EMC SYmmetrix will generate a different WWID for each path to the same LUN, which causes HP-UX11iv3 to see each path as a different device.

This is *different* from the FA settings for 11iv2/11iv1, so your storage guys might not have realised.

HTH

Duncan

[Brett Simpson]

Duncan,
If I could've given you 15 points, I would've. Thanks!

[Brett Simpson]

THe only difference is that it's the SPC2 flag and OS2007 flag.

[Brett Simpson]

SPC2 flag and OS2007 flag was the problem.