Brief connectivity problem between group replication volumes and RPA

Summary: Brief connectivity problem between group replication volumes and RPA

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Symptoms

From logger:/sr/138220/extracted.rp-unit-ltc.KBox1.2016.11.28.10.22.12/processes/InfoCollect/showDevs.sh
this will show __revision 00__:
0x7c0a8452d1db4f0b=>(NaaRawGuid=Vector(96,6,1,96,172,96,65,0,253,128,44,88,227,201,206,40),
oldRawGuid=Option(Vector(96,6,1,96,172,96,65,0,253,128,44,88,227,201,206,40)),
vendor=DGC,product=VRAID,model=Option(Unity 400F),capacity=Option(1288490188800),
niceName=Option(apl-sub01-RP-6036-VM-LTC-400FA_S7B-R (279)),serialNumber=CKMxxxxxxxxxxx,
bIsSymmTaggedDevice=NoOption,symmDevID=NoOption,numPaths=4,controllerIDs=Set(SP-A,SP-B),
geometry=Option((bytesPerSector=512,numberOfHeads=1,sectorsPerTrack=160,numberOfCylinders=15728640)),
revision=00,bIsFTSVolume=0,numSymmTargets=0,bIsUsable=1)

this log extract would appear (usually but not exclusiviely) in replication logs
2016/11/28 09:41:44.788 - #2 - 7602/7485 - MultiPath: handleReservationConflict: cannot resolve reservation conflict  m_volume = 0x7c0a8452d1db4f0b m_basePath = (0x500124820066815e,0x5006016747e00819,0x24,e_fiberChannel) 

 IO error due to reservation conflict will cause replication to stop.

Event from the logs:

Brief connectivity problem between group replication volumes and RPA 
Time: Mon Dec 5 15:00:38 2016 
Time Zone: GMT 
Topic: RPA 
Scope: NORMAL 
Level: ERROR & CLEAR 
Event ID: 16061 
Cluster: rp-unit-ltc 
Global links: None 
RPA access: 
RPAs: 
RPA: RPA 1 
Groups whose replication volumes are affected: [XXX, XXX]
Summary: Brief connectivity problem between group replication volumes and RPA 
Service Request info: N/A............................................ 

Impacted Configuration & Settings [Replication Mode,Splitter Type,Compression,CDP/CLR/Multi,FC/IP/iSCSI, Policies etc.]:  Unity Midrange Storage Array, in situations such as adding and Rset and reservation conflicts occur.

Impact on RP: RP is unable to penetrate the reservation conflict

Cause

RP code for penetrating the reservation conflict is calculated based on legacy VNX revision code.
the Unity array returns code 00 therefore RP considers this array not supporting reservation conflict penetration

Resolution

Fixed at: target for 5.0.1 or 5.1

Workaround:
change tweak t_RsrvUseClariionPenetrationKeyFromRevision = from 26 to 0 on all RPAs that access the Unity array and reboot each one after changing the tweak

Products

Dell EMC Unity Family |Dell EMC Unity All Flash
Article Properties
Article Number: 000054740
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025
Version:  3
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