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February 1st, 2007 14:00

PowerPath Not Working

I have an older FC4700-2 that has been retired that we decide to use. I have built a Dell 2650 with dual Emulex LightPulse LP9802 HBA's. I have given the storage group 4 Luns and I am seeing 8 at the server because of the dual path. I have a licensed copy of Powerpath installed but when you go into the Power path administrator I am not seeing any storage arrays, disks, or adapters. It does not working at all. I have tried multiple versions of power path but pretty much the same thing happens with all tried versions. Any ideas?

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Michael
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    Posted February 2nd, 2007 08:00

    yep, go by what you see in Disk Administrator ...so what change did you make to make it appear correctly ?
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    Posted February 1st, 2007 16:00

    are you using navi agent on the host or did you manually register host under connectivity status ?
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    Posted February 1st, 2007 16:00

    can you go into connectivity status and click on the host ...what is the failover mode set to ?
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    Posted February 1st, 2007 16:00

    I am running Navi and CLI agent 6.0.5
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    Posted February 1st, 2007 19:00

    It has been so long, I did forget about that. Which fail over mode? 0, 1, 2?
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    Posted February 1st, 2007 20:00

    I have it to clarion open, 1, enabled and I am now seen the adapters and disk. With 2 hba's in the servers, 2 fiber switches what mode should it be 0,1,2? At 0 I get errors on all adapters in powerpath, mode 1 power path looks to be fine but I'm seeing 16 disks in device manager.

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    Posted February 2nd, 2007 04:00

    with powerpath you should set it to failover mode 1, How many disks do you see in Disk Administrator ?

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    Posted February 2nd, 2007 05:00

    What version of Powerpath are you using? I had to use 4.5.1 because 4.6 didn't work. It wouldn't see any HBAs or anything. Maybe that could be it. After back reving, it all showed up.
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    Posted February 2nd, 2007 08:00

    In device manager I am seeing 16 drives but in disk administrator I am seeing the 4 assigned drives. I assume that it is now working correctly.

    Michael
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    Posted February 2nd, 2007 08:00

    Just an FYI... you may or may not still run into trouble with PP 4.5x. EMC dropped support for the FC4700 in v4.5 We were forced to stay at a lower rev until we migrated everything off the old arrays and decommitted them.

    If it works for you great, but beware...