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Cresswell Williams
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Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Hi Experts

I am able to present a vdisk from the SAN to the VM Host server and then present it as a scsi disk to the Integrity Guest. I am able to boot from the .iso image of the Guest O/S, but for some reason it cannot install the O/S to the SAM vdisk:

Here is the output of the installation:
Loading configuration utility...
* Beginning installation from source: /dev/dsk/c0t1d0
======= 07/20/09 11:56:02 EDT Starting system configuration...
* Configure_Disks: Begin
* Will install B.11.31 onto this system.
WARNING: Could not clear boot block on disk "/dev/rdisk/disk3":
fwrite(i=16384): Device busy (errno = 16).
WARNING: Could not write UID to disk "/dev/rdisk/disk3". Device busy (errno =

16)
WARNING: Could not clean up the disk "/dev/rdisk/disk3"(0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0).
Device busy (errno = 16)
idisk: Read of requested data failed(16)
idisk: Read of Primary EFI data failed
NOTE: Failed to run "/usr/sbin/idisk -q -w -f /tmp/efi_part.info
/dev/rdisk/disk3"
NOTE: Disk(0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0) has capacity "26214400".
fwrite(i=16384): Device busy (errno = 16).
WARNING: Could not write UID to disk "/dev/rdisk/disk3". Device busy (errno =

16)
WARNING: Could not clean up the disk "/dev/rdisk/disk3"(0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0).
Device busy (errno = 16)
idisk: Read of requested data failed(16)
idisk: Read of Primary EFI data failed
NOTE: Failed to run "/usr/sbin/idisk -q -w -f /tmp/efi_part.info
/dev/rdisk/disk3"
NOTE: Disk(0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0) has capacity "26214400".
NOTE: Contents of file "/tmp/efi_part.info":
3
EFI 500MB
HPUX 24699MB
HPSP 400MB

ERROR: idisk command failed.

The configuration process has incurred an error, would you like
to push a shell for debugging purposes? (y/[n]): ^Cconfigure: Detecte
d a user interrupt.
Do you really wish to stop the installation? (y/[n]):

Any Ideas??
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Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Hi,

Could you post the "hpvmstatus -P your_guest_ivm"?

Try to remove the disk from the guest and create a filesystem on the disk, or try to use the pvcreate command to write the lvm info to the disk.

Regards,
Robert-Jan
Cresswell Williams
Frequent Advisor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Here it is:

[Virtual Machine Details]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State
==================== ===== ======= ========
HPUXVM2 12 HPUX On (OS)

[Authorized Administrators]
Oper Groups :
Admin Groups :
Oper Users :
Admin Users :

[Virtual CPU Details]
#vCPUs Entitlement Maximum
====== =========== =======
2 50.0% 100.0%

[Memory Details]
Total Reserved
Memory Memory
======= ========
2 GB 64 MB

[Dynamic Memory Information]
NOTE: Dynamic data unavailable, configured values only
Minimum Target Maximum
Memory Memory Memory
=========== =========== ===========
512 MB 2048 MB 2048 MB

[Storage Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
disk scsi 0 0 0 0 0 disk /dev/rdisk/disk11
dvd scsi 0 0 0 1 0 file /tmp/iso/hpuxv3disk1.iso

[Network Interface Details]
Interface Adaptor Name/Num PortNum Bus Dev Ftn Mac Address
========= ========== ========== ======= === === === =================
vswitch lan vswPRD 2 0 1 0 56-b9-cc-5e-f7-82

[Misc Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
serial com1 tty console
Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Could you also post the output of the diskinfo command?

# diskinfo -v /dev/rdisk/disk11
Cresswell Williams
Frequent Advisor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

diskinfo -v /dev/rdisk/disk11
SCSI describe of /dev/rdisk/disk11:
vendor: HP
product id: HSV100
type: direct access
size: 26214400 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 512
rev level: 3028
blocks per disk: 52428800
ISO version: 0
ECMA version: 0
ANSI version: 2
removable media: no
response format: 2
(Additional inquiry bytes: (32)33 (33)30 (34)32 (35)38 (36)36 (37)36 (38)43 (39)35 (40)41 (41)52 (42)33 (43)30 (44)33 (45)47 (46)36 (47)36 (48)43 (49)35 (50)41 (51)4f (52)59 (53)30 (54)41 (55)4f (56)0 (57)0 (58)0 (59)0 (60)0 (61)0 (62)0 (63)0 (64)0 (65)0 (66)0 (67)0 (68)0 (69)0 (70)0 (71)0 (72)0 (73)0 (74)0 (75)0 (76)0 (77)0 (78)0 (79)0 (80)0 (81)0 (82)0 (83)0 (84)0 (85)0 (86)0 (87)0 (88)0 (89)0 (90)0 (91)0 (92)0 (93)0 (94)0 (95)0 (96)b1 (97)0 (98)0 (99)0 (100)0 (101)0 (102)0 (103)0 (104)0 (105)0 (106)0 (107)0 (108)0 (109)0 (110)0 (111)0 (112)0 (113)0 (114)0 (115)0 (116)0 (117)0 (118)0 (119)0 (120)0 (121)0 (122)0 (123)0 (124)0 (125)0 (126)0 (127)0 (128)0 (129)0 (130)39 (131)1 (132)0 (133)0 (134)0 (135)0 (136)60 (137)0 (138)0 (139)0 (140)c0 (141)2a (142)ac (143)20 (144)0 (145)0 (146)0 (147)0 (148)0 (149)0 (150)0 (151)0 (152)0 (153)0 (154)0 (155)0 (156)0 (157)0 (158)0 (159)0 (160)40 (161)0 (162)0 (163)3 (164)0 (165)0 (166)5 (167)53 (168)21 (169)a0 (170)0 (171)1 (172)0 (173)2 (174)0 (175)3 (176)d (177)0 (178)0 (179)b (180)0 (181)1 (182)29 (183)cc (184)0 (185)0 (186)0 (187)0 (188)0 (189)0 (190)0 (191)0 (192)4a (193)60 (194)8a (195)3a (196)b (197)53 (198)6a (199)0 (200)4a (201)60 (202)8a (203)3a (204)b (205)53 (206)6a (207)0 (208)4a (209)64 (210)43 (211)f3 (212)1e (213)fe (214)95 (215)e8 (216)0 (217)1 (218)0 (219)0 (220)7e (221)f6 (222)0 (223)0 (224)0 (225)0 (226)0 (227)0 (228)0 (229)0 (230)0 (231)0 (232)0 (233)0 (234)0 (235)0 (236)0 (237)0 (238)0 (239)0 (240)0 (241)0 (242)0 (243)0 (244)0 (245)1 (246)0 )
Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor
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Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90191/T2767-90191.pdf

â ¢ On EVA 4000/6000/8000, all released firmware revisions support Active-Active configuration.
Therefore, no action is necessary on these arrays.
â ¢ EVA 3000/5000 arrays need minimum firmware revisions of VCS v4.004 (Active-Active
firmware).
For more information about EVA firmware upgrades, see the HP Services EVA upgrade website:

http://hpswest.corp.hp.com/VCSUpgradeProgram.asp

I believe you have firmware version 3.028 on your EVA.

Regards,
Robert-Jan
Cresswell Williams
Frequent Advisor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Hi Thanks for your input.

But let me just get this straight. Does this rule apply to only AVIO Storage Driver or does it also apply to the emulated SCSI?

Thanks

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Cresswell,

This isn't an HPVM issue - it's an 11iv3 issue...

HP-UX11iv3 isn't supported with an EVA on the old VCS3.x firmware - the active/passive firmware can't be handled by the new storage stack. Use a different disk array or upgrade the disk array to VCS 4.x

You *might* be able to persuade it to work by using the old legacy DSF (/dev/rdsk rather than /dev/rdisk) if you identify which legacy DSF goes to the active controller and if you diable legacy MPIO on that DSF...
What I would do would be to identify the owning controller and then zone out the non-owning controller so the host can't see that, then set things up as follows:

so for example you would run:

scsimgr set_attr -a leg_mpath_enable=0 -D /dev/disk/disk3
scsimgr save_attr -a leg_mpath_enable=0 -D /dev/disk/disk3

Then you would use the legacy path to that device (/dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ)

So you would get no MPIO or path failover, but you would be able to at least try out HPVM...

Unsupported obviously...

HTH

Duncan


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Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor

Re: Integrty Virtual Machine - Cannot Install HP-UX v3 for the Guest onto a Vdisk on a SAN

Add on to Duncan's reply.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/hpuxconnectivitymatrix.html

EVA
EVA8000/6000/4000 v6.000
EVA5000/3000 V4.007

Regards,
Robert-Jan