True, because in Unisphere you can "administratively disable" an HBA, which happens by default when you change a defective HBA for a new one. In solutions enabler you do the masking on the new HBA and it works. Indeed
They actually pulled the HBA and gave me the new WWN which I zoned in and connected to the host. I cleared the old WWN out of the host and thought it had registered with the storage group but that was not the case. I always thought PowerPath showed WWNs regardless and if there was no connection it would be X’d out. Guess that’s not true!
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August 15th, 2012 07:00
Do you have any devices presented to the second (missing?) HBA?
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jarbarian
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August 15th, 2012 07:00
Actually I found it, the HBA was disconnected from the storage group. I reconnected it and we’re good.
Thanks!
jarbarian
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August 16th, 2012 04:00
My guess is when they swapped HBAs the new HBA did not check into the storage group so I had to force a reconnect. Once I did that, problem solved.
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August 16th, 2012 04:00
It must have been something like that. When an HBA has no LUNs Powerpath doesn't see the LUN.
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jarbarian
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August 16th, 2012 05:00
In summation:
DMX/VMAX > Clariion
Hah!
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August 16th, 2012 05:00
True, because in Unisphere you can "administratively disable" an HBA, which happens by default when you change a defective HBA for a new one. In solutions enabler you do the masking on the new HBA and it works. Indeed
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August 16th, 2012 05:00
Could be. If that was the case you should be able to see a 3rd HBA in the connectivity status (if they didn't remove the defective one)
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They actually pulled the HBA and gave me the new WWN which I zoned in and connected to the host. I cleared the old WWN out of the host and thought it had registered with the storage group but that was not the case. I always thought PowerPath showed WWNs regardless and if there was no connection it would be X’d out. Guess that’s not true!
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August 16th, 2012 05:00
And now you learned something new
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August 16th, 2012 05:00
True, lol! Never have this issue with DMX/VMAX arrays though ☺