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Solaris Cluster and EMC's VPLEX storage. What you should know. (Doc ID 1930939.1)

Last updated on MAY 08, 2024

Applies to:

Solaris Cluster - Version 3.2 to 3.3 U2 [Release 3.2 to 3.3]
Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition - Version 3.2 to 3.3 U2 [Release 3.2 to 3.3]
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
In June 2013 the Oracle Solaris Cluster (OSC) Product Update Bulletin (Doc ID 1562168.1) included:

Storage Partner Update

EMC VPLEX

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As always, all third-party storage vendors are responsible for qualifying and supporting
their products in an OSC environment and likely have both restrictions and requirements
which must be met in order for the configuration to be supported.

This document is to raise awareness for customers using OSC who plan to implement EMC VPLEX.

Symptoms

More and more customers are migrating to this product but doing so without proper consideration  or planning when used in an OSC environment. This has often left them with nodes that suffer Reservation Conflict (RC) panics and other related issues.

Changes

Migration to and/or implementation of EMC VPLEX.

Here is an example of a VPLEX lun:

format.out:

       8. c2txxxxxxxB03D0901d0 <EMC-Invista-5210 cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 16 sec 256>
          /pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@2/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/ssd@wxxxxxxxb03d0901,0

       4. c2txxxxxxxA03D4701d0 <EMC-Invista-5210 cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 16 sec 256>
          /pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@2/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/ssd@wxxxxxxxa03d4701,0

      12. c3txxxxxxxA03D0900d0 <EMC-Invista-5210 cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 16 sec 256>
          /pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/ssd@wxxxxxxxa03d0900,0

      16. c3txxxxxxxB03D4700d0 <EMC-Invista-5210 cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 16 sec 256>
          /pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/ssd@wxxxxxxxb03d4700,0

Invista is a network storage virtualization product released in 2005.

 powermt_display_dev=all.out (In <explorer_dir>/emc on reasonably current versions of explorer. 4.3.1 will not have this)

Pseudo name=emcpower4a
VPLEX ID=FNM00134700522  <----<<<
Logical device ID=6000144000000010703D09395B5E4857
state=alive; policy=ADaptive; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
--------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -  -- I/O Path --   -- Stats ---
###  HW Path               I/O Paths    Interf.  Mode     State   Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
3072 pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@2/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 c2txxxxxxxB03D0901d0s0 05       active   alive      0      0
3072 pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@2/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 c2txxxxxxxA03D4701d0s0 09       active   alive      0      0
3073 pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 c3txxxxxxxA03D0900d0s0 00       active   alive      0      0
3073 pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 c3txxxxxxxB03D4700d0s0 0C       active   alive      0      0

cldev-list-v.out:

d16                 Node2:/dev/rdsk/c2txxxxxxxB03D0901d0
d16                 Node2:/dev/rdsk/c2txxxxxxxA03D4701d0
d16                 Node2:/dev/rdsk/c3txxxxxxxB03D4700d0
d16                 Node2:/dev/rdsk/c3txxxxxxxA03D0900d0
d16                 Node1:/dev/rdsk/c3txxxxxxxA03D0900d0
d16                 Node1:/dev/rdsk/c3txxxxxxxB03D4700d0
d16                 Node1:/dev/rdsk/c2txxxxxxxA03D4701d0
d16                 Node1:/dev/rdsk/c2txxxxxxxB03D0901d0

Cause

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Symptoms
Changes
Cause
Solution
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