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what command to show me what view/storage group is associated with this sym device?
I tried "symdev show 0f10 -sid 123", and it lists FA's, as well as disk groups. however, how do I find out what view/disk group that this device (ex, 0F10) is associated with? My goal is to find out what host is this device being provisioned to? Thanks!
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January 26th, 2014 11:00
1) symaccess -sid 123 list assignment -dev 2644
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Dev Identifier Type Dir:P
------ ---------------- ----- ----------------
2644 20000025b501a16e FIBRE FA-5E:0,FA-8E:0,FA-5G:0,FA-8G:0
20000025b501b06e FIBRE FA-5E:0,FA-8E:0,FA-5G:0,FA-8G:0
2) symaccess -sid 123 list view -v -detail | grep -B8 20000025b501a16e |grep "Masking View"
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January 26th, 2014 12:00
if a host is zoned to an FA that has ACLX device mapped to it ..you will see ACLX on every host that is zoned to that FA, you don't even need to mask ACLX to a host. The only way to remove ACLX is to write_disable it and unmap it from FA. Be careful because some operating systems assign a device name to ACLX device so you might have to do some clean up after you unmap it.
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January 26th, 2014 12:00
you can leave ACLX presented (write_enabled) , it doesn't hurt anything. Gatekeepers should not be shared, you should have dedicated gatekeepers (at least 4) per host that will be issuing any kind of symcli commands.
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January 26th, 2014 12:00
Since it's been already assigned to the host, could I just leave it there? and then should I write_disable?
Also, can a GK be shared by multiple hosts?
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January 26th, 2014 12:00
This is very useful command. Thanks!
One follow-up.
Basically, we want to remove some devices from hosts. One of devices turns out to be a ACLX device on a host. Is there any issue to unmap ACLX device from the storage group, and then remove it from the host? If I don't use the host as storage management?