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Storage Group hosts missing from list but still connected.
I was wondering if anyone has run across this before. I have a Storage group with 18 ESX 4.1 hosts. I went to add another host and i can see that about 6 of the hosts are not listed in the "Host to be connected" box. I went into engineering mode and selected the "advanced" button and those same host do not show up there either.
I then looked at connectivity status and all 18 hosts are listed with the correct storage group as well as being logged in. Inside Vmware, those missig hosts can still access all datastores.
The reason i ask is i need to add another host to that group and i am wondering that if i did, when i hit apply that it would remove those 6 hosts since they were not listed in the window.
kelleg
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August 26th, 2010 09:00
Did you open a case for this? If so, what's the case number?
glen
robi_88c571
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August 25th, 2010 09:00
Seems like Navisphere GUI related issue, did you try to restart the management server.
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 10:00
Yes. i did that before posting but the same issue.
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 13:00
Actaully, it wont let me create a dummy record. the "OK" box is greyed out even though i have filled everything in
I am guessing you may think there is a storage group limit?
I will be opening a ticket tomorrow to see what they say.
dynamox
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August 25th, 2010 13:00
there are already 18 hosts in the SG and you are trying to add one more ?
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 13:00
hehe dummy initiators require full WWN's as well as unique host names and IP's. this is going to take forever....
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 13:00
Yes there are currently 18 hosts and i want to add another.
Only 12 of those hosts are showing up in the storage group properties even though all 18 can access the LUN's assigned to that SG.
I also did a naviseccli -storagegroup -list -gname -hosts and it list all 18 hosts....
dynamox
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August 25th, 2010 13:00
manually create 18 "dummy" initiators and put them in a test storage group. See if you observe the same behavior.
dynamox
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August 25th, 2010 14:00
how many initiators do you have in total ?
dynamox
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August 25th, 2010 14:00
is this on CX4 ? what flare ?
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 14:00
138.
And it is not like it is not letting me add the new hosts. i havent tried yet. i just wanted to see if anyone had seen this before where all the hosts in a current SG are not listed.
kenn2347
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August 25th, 2010 14:00
CX3-80 R26 .025
alfredo_SnT
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August 26th, 2010 00:00
Kenn,
I also got the same type of behaviour yesterday when I added new paths to a host and then restarted naviagent the host missed from the SG. I think this is an issue in the Navisphere GUI but I'm not sure yet.
Try to do a naviseccli storagegroup -list
And see if the hosts are correctly connected.
kenn2347
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August 26th, 2010 06:00
Yep already confirmed that above.
Gonna check with support today.
kenn2347
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August 26th, 2010 10:00
Yes i opened a case at 930Am this morning. stll waiting for EMC to contact me back....
ticket# is 36392128 Sev 2