PVLink 31 Failed!

[Joe415]

hi all,

I am running HP-UX 11.23 and have 4 200GB LUNS from an EVA. After creating a VG and 4 LVs each LV using 1 of the LUNS.

My Vgdisplay is as follows:

--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vgrman
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 4
Open LV 4
Max PV 64
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
Max PE per PV 12799
VGDA 8
PE Size (Mbytes) 16
Total PE 51192
Alloc PE 51192
Free PE 0
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vgrman/lvr01
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 204768
Current LE 12798
Allocated PE 12798
Used PV 1

LV Name /dev/vgrman/lvr02
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 204768
Current LE 12798
Allocated PE 12798
Used PV 1

LV Name /dev/vgrman/lvr03
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 204768
Current LE 12798
Allocated PE 12798
Used PV 1

LV Name /dev/vgrman/lvr04
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 204768
Current LE 12798
Allocated PE 12798
Used PV 1


--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c13t0d1
PV Name /dev/dsk/c15t0d1 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c17t0d1 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c19t0d1 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 12798
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c15t0d2
PV Name /dev/dsk/c17t0d2 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c19t0d2 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c13t0d2 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 12798
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c15t0d3
PV Name /dev/dsk/c17t0d3 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c19t0d3 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c13t0d3 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 12798
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c15t0d4
PV Name /dev/dsk/c17t0d4 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c19t0d4 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c13t0d4 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 12798
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

The Server has Secure Path installed using Active/Active. There are 4 paths to the disks as you can see from the output above. Does anyone have an idea why this error keeps happening in the syslog?

Jan 30 12:09:30 Pendb3 vmunix: LVM: VG 64 0x010000: PVLink 31 0x0d0100 Failed! The PV is still accessible. Also I forgot to mention there is other storge on this server from an XP24K and it is able to use Secure Path.

Joe

[Torsten.]

I always forget the right command, because I don't use this software.

AFAIR a "spmgr display" will give you more information.

[TTr]

If I am not mistaken the 0x0d0100 translates to the c13 path. Is the error only for 0x0d0100 or it repeats for

0x0d0000
0x0d0100
0x0d0200
etc.

If it repeats for all the c13 paths, check you FC wiring and zoning.

Run ioscan and see if the devices on that path are still "CLAIMED".