Hi Doug,

I've seen some problems with replication lately. Let me first make sure of some things:

Is the MAC address of eth0 on both Simulators different?
Does the MAC addres "agree" with the storage ID on both Simulators (the storage ID is derived from the MAC address on eth0)?

If those are ok, there could be some other problems.

Let me know what you find out.

Jim

I am replicating between a physical NS20 and the virtual Celerra, so the MACs are different

Yes, the storage ID on the simulator agrees with the MAC.

I was using the single DM version of the simulator. When I get a chance, I'm going to try again with the dual DM version. There is nothing in the logs to indicate that the command is doing anything -- I wondered if it was going out to query the second DM and never returning (?).

I know it isn't supposed to be there, but I was getting messages from BoxMonitor that both interfaces to the slot containing that missing DM were down.

Hi Doug,

Did you make a single DM Simulator from a dual Simulator? That's not advised because there are places that remember there were supposed to be two DMs.

Jim

Hi Doug,

We're going to try to recreate this here. Can you please give me the version you are using?

Thanks,

Jim

Of course not! That would be craziness!

I downloaded the single DM version from Powerlink, configured the storage as I needed it for replication, configured replication (iSCSI LUN), made sure everything synced up...

Thanks, Doug. I'll get someone to look at it.

Jim

Sure. 5.6.36 is what it says on the login screen.

Jim,

It may be helpful to know what I did. I have almost downloaded the TwoDM version of the simulator. In the meantime, this could help

Import VM, mark as unique/update ID -- run as root
/opt/blabkbird/tools/init_storageID

Create mountpoint /Clariion_Storage for additional storage

#Initialize licenses
nas_license -init
nas_license -create nfs
nas_license -create snapsure
#nas_license -create advancedmanager
nas_license -create replicatorV2
nas_license -create iscsi

# Add new storage
1. Add new VMDK
2. New LUN comes in as /dev/sdb, partition it with fdisk
3. Format new partition as ext3 with mkfs.ext3
5. Add to /etc/fstab
6. mount -a

# Initialize the Clariion
/nas/sbin/setup_clariion -init
#if needed, update
/nas/symapi/config/clarcnfg

#reboot the VM to see new storage
# .. or could reboot just the DM w/ server_cpu ALL -reboot now
reboot

#Fix hostname
Add the following lines to /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME=phx-lab-ns20v
DOMAINNAME=itplab.local

#Fix the cshosts file
/nas/site/cshosts
replace 'localhost' with the hostname

#Configure NTP
Add timeserver (172.16.20.15) to
/etc/ntp.conf
/etc/ntp/step-tickers

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona /etc/localtime
chkconfig ntpd on
service ntpd start

# create the cge2-eth2 binding / interface and configure it
/opt/blackbird/tools/configure_nic server_2 -a eth2
reboot
server_ifconfig server_2 -create -Device cge2 -name cge2 -protocol IP 172.16.254.78 255.255.255.0 172.16.254.255

#configure DNS on the datamover
server_dns server_2 itplab.local 172.16.254.30 -option start

==SOURCE
#create interconnect
nas_cel -create phx-lab-ns20v -ip 172.16.254.73 -passphrase PASSWORD

(CREATE INTERFACE)
nas_cel -interconnect -create TO_DR -source_server server_2 -destination_system phx-lab-ns20v -destination_server server_2 -source_interfaces ip=172.16.254.66 -destination_interfaces ip=172.16.254.78 -crc yes
nas_cel -interconnect -l

==REMOTE
#create interconnect
nas_cel -create PHX-LAB-NS20 -ip 172.16.254.63 -passphrase PASSWORD

(CREATE INTERFACE)
nas_cel -interconnect -create FROM_PROD -source_server server_2 -destination_system PHX-LAB-NS20 -destination_server server_2 -source_interfaces ip=172.16.254.78 -destination_interfaces ip=172.16.254.66 -crc yes

# Check interconnects, status, validity
nas_cel -interconnect -l
nas_cel -interconnect -validate FROM_PROD

## Create FS
#nas_fs -name SRMDemoDR -create samesize=SRMDemoProd:cel=PHX-LAB-NS20 pool=clar_r5_performance -auto_extend no -vp no

## Create Mountpoint/Mount
server_mountpoint server_2 -create /SRMDemoDR
server_mount server_2 SRMDemoDR /SRMDemoDR

## Create target
server_iscsi server_2 -target -alias phx-lab-ns20v-2 -create

## Create LUN
server_iscsi server_2 -lun -number 1 -create phx-lab-ns20v-2 -size 102400M -fs SRMDemoDR -vp no -readonly yes

## Masking
server_iscsi server_2 -mask -set phx-lab-ns20v-2 -initiator iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:phx-lab-esx04-0290628f -grant 1

## Start iSCSI service
server_iscsi server_2 -service -start

### get iSCSI target iqns for each side
server_iscsi server_2 -target -l

### Create the replication objects
nas_replicate -create SRM_LUN01 -source -lun 1 -target iqn.1992-05.com.emc:apm000817027710000-1 -destination -lun 1 -target iqn.1992-05.com.emc:bb0050568e752e0000-1 -interconnect TO_DR -max_time_out_of_sync 10 -overwrite_destination

#Check status of LUN and replication (from target)
server_iscsi server_2 -lun -info 1 -target phx-lab-ns20v-2

#check on replication (from source -- this works on the PHYSICAL source)
nas_replicate -info SRM_LUN01 |grep Current
watch -n 300 "nas_replicate -info SRM_LUN01 |grep 'Current .*Rate'"

Hi Doug,

Could you please collect support materials and put them on our ftp server (ftp.emc.com). Log in as anonymous, cd to /incoming and create a directory (CSrepV2) and put the support materials there. Post here when that is done so we can get them.

Could you also provide the output from:

nas_replicate ¿info SRM_LUN01

Thanks,

Jim

Will do. The single DM VM is currently offline as I work on the two DM VM. That one seems to be working. I just need to present some more storage to it to see if that breaks it. I will fire up the single DM one and pull the support info later this week.

Almost forgot -- whenever I run the nas_replicate -l command, I get messages on the console: "Protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth2" and it repeats a total of 7 times per run of nas_replicate.