Weird Error while mapping SAN disks through NPIV

[srayfay]

Hello,

While adding new Luns by using NPIV interfaces, I have errors on dmesg and syslogs
I can see clearly my new disks, the error repeats at everytime I run ioscan/insf, is this normal ?

Info :
hpvmGuest:/root#ioscan -kfNd gvsd
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=================================================================
ext_bus 0 0/0/0/0 gvsd CLAIMED INTERFACE HPVM AVIO Stor Adapter
ext_bus 2 0/0/6/0 gvsd CLAIMED INTERFACE HPVM VMSAN Stor Adapter
ext_bus 3 0/0/7/0 gvsd CLAIMED INTERFACE HPVM VMSAN Stor Adapter

hpvmGuest:/root#gvsdmgr get_info -D /dev/gvsd2
PCI Vendor ID : 0x103c
PCI Device ID : 0x1403
State of HBA : ONLINE
Hardware Path : 0/0/6/0
Max. IO size : 0
Virtual Port WWN : 0x0
Virtual Node WWN : 0x0

hpvmGuest:/root#gvsdmgr get_info -D /dev/gvsd3
PCI Vendor ID : 0x103c
PCI Device ID : 0x1403
State of HBA : ONLINE
Hardware Path : 0/0/7/0
Max. IO size : 0
Virtual Port WWN : 0x0
Virtual Node WWN : 0x0

Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: class : esvroot, instance 0
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: The interface driver attempted to register a legacy lun path under legacy target path (b 3 - t 8), using legacy lun path instance (152) that is out of (0 - 7) range.
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix:
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: The interface driver attempted to register a legacy lun path under legacy target path (b 3 - t 12), using legacy lun path instance (183) that is out of (0 - 7) range.
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: The interface driver attempted to register a legacy lun path under legacy target path (b 2 - t 12), using legacy lun path instance (183) that is out of (0 - 7) range.
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: The interface driver attempted to register a legacy lun path under legacy target path (b 2 - t 8), using legacy lun path instance (152) that is out of (0 - 7) range.
Jan 25 16:58:30 hpvmGuest vmunix: class : esvroot, instance 0
Jan 25 16:59:00 hpvmGuest above message repeats 3 times

[Duncan Edmonstone]

>> I can see clearly my new disks, the error repeats at everytime I run ioscan/insf, is this normal

Presumably you mean you can see your disks using the new agile DSF mechanism (i.e. under /dev/disk and /dev/rdisk) - can you see them corerctly under the legacy DSF mechanism (i.e. under /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk) - it would be interesting to see what "ioscan -m dsf" reported (i.e. do you see all the legacy DSFs for each agile DSF?)

>> The interface driver attempted to register a legacy lun path under legacy target path (b 2 - t 8), using legacy lun path instance (152) that is out of (0 - 7) range.

Never seen this error message before, but it almost suggests that the disk array isn't set up to use HP-UX's addressing scheme (i.e. for cXtYdZ -  X must be <255, Y must be <14 and Z must be <8). So what sort of disk array are you using, and have you checked it is set up correctly to serve LUNs to HP-UX?

If you don't use legacy DSFs at all, you could disable them using "rmsf -L" and see if that fixes your problem (although I suspect you are just masking an issue there rather than fixing it), you can always turn legacy DSFs back on later using "insf -L".