powerpath display shows wrong

[seenivasan]

Hi,

In one my server Lun's are presented from EMC storage.after installing powerpath & starting the services it's showing following information.-
#powermt display dev=all
------------------------------------------------Pseudo name=emcpowera
Symmetrix ID=000192602989
Logical device ID=1AB4
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
---------------- Host --------------- - Stor - -- I/O Path - -- Stats ---
### HW Path I/O Paths Interf. Mode State Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
2 qla2xxx sdaf FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdan FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdav FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdbd FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdbl FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdbt FA 13fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sdcb FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sdcj FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sdcr FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sdcz FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sddh FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sddp FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sddx FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sdef FA 4fB active alive 0 0
3 qla2xxx sden FA 4fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdh FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdp FA 13fB active alive 0 0
2 qla2xxx sdx FA 13fB active alive 0 0

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It's showing 18 paths instead of 2path..

please help me to resolve this issue.

OS:rhel5 64 bit...

Regards,
Seenivasan

[Michal Kapalka (mikap) · Accepted solution]

hi,

its depend on your configuration, if you have 2 HBA, with the 2 separated switch, them the maximum paths count depends on the physical connections between switch and the Storage Director and ports on it.

mikap