PowerPath for AIX

A slow blinking amber light showing internally from the switch model DS6620B-V2, not from the switch panel, is confirmed by Brocade to be the LED from the eUSB card (on the motherboard).

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In an NPIV configuration with two virtual HBA, when one virtual HBA goes down, and although there is one path left for the I/Os, LVM_IO_FAIL are logged in errpr with ERROR CODE AS DEFINED IN sys/errno.h set to 22 (EINVAL). Because of these LVM errors, the application using the volume crashes. The issue could also occur in a non NPIV environment.

Write are failing from time to time, leading to an LVM error (LVM_IO_FAIL - EWRPROTECT) for no obvious reason, as if the device was "write protected." The error was reported as: "AIX shows disk operation error on array with PowerPath. No error showed in the array…."

How to install ODM definitions on IBM AIX for EMC Symmetrix

Following a Powerpath upgrade, VTD with VMAX3 devices backing devices remain defined.

When PowerPath for Windows version 6.1 is installed on Windows Server 2016, validation alerts indicate that many drivers have dates earlier than the OS, because the PowerPath release predates the OS.

After the installation of Windows 2016, all the connected SAN disks are visible, but as soon as Powerpath 6.1 is installed, the SAN disks disappear in the Disk Management and PowerPath is not able to show the disks. This only happens after the first installation of PowerPath.

powerpath migration enabler 6.2 reported PPME(error 22)Target faulted, must abort migration when attempting PPME migration in 4 node cluster

Customer had an issue AIX Power 7 running PowerPath 6 booting from Unity 400F . They where unable to successfully upgrade the boot image on the SAN,but could upgrade it to the internal disk. PowerPath was uninstalled before the upgrade on the SAN disks..

Path failures and reserve conflict errors noted

This article explains how to uninstall PowerPath 5.7 SP1 on the cluster node where it says migrations are pending.

Kernel panics may occur on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x systems running PowerPath for Linux version 6.3 in conjunction with Symantec software (VRTSvxvm any version) may result in data unavailability.

Server hung while PPME migration was in progress at which TargetLUfault errors are received in powermig info.

With PowerPath 6.4 for AIX, the emc_reserve_v3.sh script fails with "PowerPath version Version not >= 5.5".

In an AIX environment, rootvg is being migrated with NDM. Following the cutover, rootvg becomes "read-only" so that the system stops responding and must be rebooted.

This article explains what asb:iopf stands for in powermt display dev=all?

PowerPath 7.0 introduces a new feature, "flaky path reporting". this article is an attempt to explain how this feature really works and what can be expected.

The purpose of this article is to clearly describe what is officially supported by DELL and to clarify the required steps to deploy an operational platform booting either from a R1 or from a R2 device.

ESXi host with PowerPath panics

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Administrator removed/unmapped the volume using PowerStore Manager without first dismounting the associated LUN/disk from the connected AIX host. Follow the AIX system administrator guide and unmount the volumes from the AIX host before deleting unused volumes in PowerStore Manager.

Following a new installation of Oracle ASM 11 g (or above) or an upgrade of Oracle ASM, no disks are showing up as available ASM disks.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

Booting from a SAN environment, after installing Dell EMC ODM fileset and rebooting, the boot disk is not automatically found and must be manually selected.

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This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

PowerPath 6.0 (or earlier) is installed and configuring VMAX devices fine. However, after upgrading to PowerPath 6.1, configuring devices is failing with no error message. The devices are not configured for PowerPath and no pseudodevice is created.

After an upgrade of PowerPath Windows to version 7.2 p01, the Windows 2016 hosts show as disconnected in the PowerPath Management Appliance (PPMA) 3.4 SP2.

PowerPath IBM AIX ODM reserve lock attributes not converting to reserve_policy.