PowerStore: Single Node Serves I/O After Node Reboots Due to Missing MPIO Configuration on Host Side

Before node reboot, both nodes serve I/O.
After node reboots, I/O was sent to Node A only. There is no I/O on node B iSCSI FE ports.  

The user's multipath configuration for the LINUX host does not contain PowerStore information:

defaults {
                user_friendly_names     no
                find_multipaths                yes
                failback                 10
                no_path_retry                  10
}
blacklist {
                devnode              "^nvme.*"
                devnode "scini*"
                devnode "^rbd[0-9]*"
                devnode "^nbd[0-9]*"
}
# Leave this section in place even if empty
blacklist_exceptions {
}
devices {
                device {
                                vendor                                 "DataCore"
                                product                                "SAN*"
                                path_checker                    "tur"
                                path_grouping_policy    failover
                                failback                 30
                }
                device {
                                vendor                                 "DELL"
                                product                                "MD36xx(i|f)"
                                features                               "2 pg_init_retries 50"
                                hardware_handler          "1 rdac"
                                path_selector                    "round-robin 0"
                                path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
                                failback                 immediate
                                rr_min_io                            100
                                path_checker                    rdac
                                prio                                        rdac
                                no_path_retry                  30
                }
                device {
                                vendor                                 "DGC"
                                product                                ".*"
                                detect_prio                        yes
                                retain_attached_hw_handler yes
                }
                device {
                                vendor                                 "EMC"
                                product                                "Invista"
                                detect_prio                        yes
                                retain_attached_hw_handler yes
                                path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
                }
…

PowerStore was not added to /etc/multipath.conf. The configuration in /etc/multipath.conf for the Linux host should be:

defaults {
  user_friendly_names yes
  disable_changed_wwids yes
}
devices {
  device {
    vendor DellEMC
    product PowerStore
    path_selector "queue-length 0"
    path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
    path_checker tur
   detect_prio yes
   failback immediate
   no_path_retry 3
   rr_min_io_rq 1
   fast_io_fail_tmo 15
   }

In the Dell Host Connectivity Guide for Linux document, it states to modify /etc/multipath.conf file as follows:

* vendor - "DellEMC"
* product - "PowerStore"
* path_selector - "queue-length 0"
* path_grouping_policy -
* "group_by_prio"
* path_checker - "tur"
* detect_prio - "yes"
* failback - "immediate"
* no_path_retry - "3"
* rr_min_io_rq - "1"
* fast_io_fail_tmo - "15"
* max_sectors_kb - "1024"

As the PowerStore LUN was not added to Linux /etc/multipath.conf, multipath did not manage PowerStore logical unit number (LUN). During reboot events, Node A boots up one minute before Node B, then host ONLY sent I/O to node A ISCSI target ports. This is working as designed.

Advise user to modify LINUX multipath configuration. I/O is balanced between the two nodes after adding the PowerStore to the /etc/multipath.conf, Node B Performance Metrics in UI recovered.

See Dell Host Connectivity Guide for Linux on Dell Support.