Usually when we check device in vcenter it il be in this form " EMC Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60000970000192600427533034393430) ", but for few devices its showing like " EMC Fibre Channel Disk (mpx.emc_Symm_000192600427_vol_4510) ".
Both the devices are provisioned from same array.
Please help me to understand why is this identifier name is different.
Especially for clustered environments it's possible to use cascading initiator groups, and the proper flagsettings need to be applied on any initiator or initiator group accessing the clustered devices.
Another possible reason for this behavior might be that these devices are presented as pRDM's to a virtual W2K8 (or later) MSCS node.
These devices are protected by SCSI 3 persistent reservations which could prevent proper discovery from an ESX host.
hemachandra_s
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Posted May 27th, 2013 23:00
As per https://support.emc.com/docu34974_PowerPath-VE-5.7-for-VMware-vSphere-Installation-and-Administration-Guide.pdf?language=en_US
When the SPC-2 flag is disabled, a Symmetrix device has the following form:
mpx.vmhba#:C#:T#:L#
and PowerPath/VE configures it as:
symm. _