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June 19th, 2008 13:00

The clone_activate operation is not a valid operation on this operating sys

I am trying to activate a clone on a new host using admsnap clone_activate. The following message is returned:

Scanning for new devices.
The clone_activate operation is not a valid operation on this operating system.

When I issue the powermt command to display all devices, I do not see the cloned luns. I'm not sure what I am missing. Any suggestions?

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June 20th, 2008 01:00

SarahR,

Welcome to the foums. Can you tell us a little bit more about your CLARiiON setup as well as what is your Host OS?

Have you tried rebooting your Server? I assume you have already synchronized, fractured and presented the clone to the Server's Storage Group.

Carl

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June 20th, 2008 07:00

Our set-up is a CX3-40 with RHEL4 attached host. Across a Brocade Silkworm using a QLogic HBA.

We did end up rebooting and now I can see the luns via admsnap list and powermt display dev=all, however, the os still does not see them and I keep getting the same response.

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June 20th, 2008 08:00

Sorry to inform you but as per the SnapView CLI Reference document (FLARE 24), the admsnap clone_activate command isn't supported on Linux.

Your choices are either to reboot the server or unload and load the HBA driver.

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June 23rd, 2008 09:00

I'm looking into upgrading to FLARE 26. What I don't understand is why the operating system cannot see the luns when powermt can.

Can you tell me where to find that document that you referenced? I'm having trouble locating relevent documentation.

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June 23rd, 2008 15:00

You can find the documents here: Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ S ~ Documentation > SnapView > Maintenance/Administration

As for why the OS behaving the way it is maybe one of the Linux gurus on the forum could shed some light on it...

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June 23rd, 2008 17:00

try doing similar setting. Not very sure if it is relevant to your case. I had to do this on on rhel 5 to see the lun

symmask -sid xxxx set hba_flags on V -disable -wwn 2100001b320d04c7 -dir 4d -p 0

symmask -sid xxx set hba_flags on V -disable -wwn 2100001b320dedc8 -dir 13d -p 0

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June 23rd, 2008 18:00

on a Clariion ?

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June 23rd, 2008 18:00

Oops

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June 24th, 2008 07:00

Let's first look at what EMC brings us in the new series.
I'm seeing more and more news letters coming that mention CX4-80 and so. Especially on searchstorage.com

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June 24th, 2008 07:00

What, you don't have the new CX5-1000 yet dynamox?

With FLARE 32 and Solutions Enabler 8.3 you can do wonderful things ;-)

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June 24th, 2008 07:00

not yet Allen ..you will let you work out all the bugs for us :D

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June 24th, 2008 08:00

I'm looking forward to it (the CX4 that is) with great anticipation. Just the capacity capability will be a welcome upgrade... We dropped a new CX3-80 on the floor of one of our data centers just over a month ago and it looks like it will be full within another 4 months. This is getting ridicules!!!

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June 24th, 2008 08:00

*lol* I guess it must still be beta hardware/software.

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June 24th, 2008 12:00

it's crazy ..i am struggling to backup these monsters.

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June 26th, 2008 03:00

"Dropped" sounds scary... I can visualize it: 4 people carrying a CX3-80 (3 cabinets ?) and then 1-2-3 all at the same time retracting their hands. BENG.

I think an EMC CE told me once of a customer where a Symm fell though the lifted floor and was still running after that incident. Not even a singlle disk failed !
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