PowerPath 5.0 on W2k3 - Unable to remove dead paths
I have a few Windows 2003 hosts connected to a Clariion CX-3 via iSCSI. There are some dead paths which I cannot remove. When I remove then through powermt, no error messages are shown but the paths are still there. When I remove them through PowerPath Admin I get a pop up message "Could not complete the requested operation", and a Windows Event Viewer message "EMC Power Path Error: EMCPowerPathAdmin could not remove path xxxx from the current configuration due to:"
Power Path Admin shows the disk number of this failed path as "Dev ???".
Thanks dynamox, but that did not work either. I found the powermt.custom file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc, renamed it and reran "powermt check dev=all". Same results. The path will not diappear.
powermt.custom file gets created whenever you run powermt save ..for example if you made setting changes within powerpath and want to save them..you would run powermt save. I have seen instances where i made changes on the storage side and i just could not force powerpath to reconfigure itself, so i was uninstall powerpath, re-install it ..and dead paths would not go away. So now if i cannot get powerpath to recognize changes elegantly (powermt config, powermt check ..etc) , i uninstall powerpath, remove powermt.custom and then reboot the system. Make sure to save the license key, i have had mixed luck where sometimes uninstall will remove the license key as well.
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Posted June 21st, 2007 06:00