InfoScale™ 9.0 Dynamic Multi-Pathing Administrator's Guide - Solaris

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Solaris
  1. Understanding DMP
    1.  
      About Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)
    2. How DMP works
      1. How DMP monitors I/O on paths
        1.  
          Path failover mechanism
        2.  
          Subpaths Failover Group (SFG)
        3.  
          Low Impact Path Probing (LIPP)
        4.  
          I/O throttling
      2.  
        Load balancing
      3.  
        Dynamic Reconfiguration
      4.  
        DMP support for the ZFS root pool
      5.  
        About booting from DMP devices
      6. DMP in a clustered environment
        1.  
          About enabling or disabling controllers with shared disk groups
    3.  
      Multi-controller ALUA support
    4.  
      Multiple paths to disk arrays
    5.  
      Device discovery
    6.  
      Disk devices
    7. Disk device naming in DMP
      1.  
        About operating system-based naming
      2. About enclosure-based naming
        1.  
          Summary of enclosure-based naming
        2.  
          Enclosure based naming with the Array Volume Identifier (AVID) attribute
  2. Setting up DMP to manage native devices
    1.  
      About setting up DMP to manage native devices
    2.  
      Displaying the native multi-pathing configuration
    3.  
      Migrating ZFS pools to DMP
    4.  
      Migrating to DMP from EMC PowerPath
    5.  
      Migrating to DMP from Hitachi Data Link Manager (HDLM)
    6.  
      Migrating to DMP from Solaris Multiplexed I/O (MPxIO)
    7. Using Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
      1.  
        Enabling Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices for use with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
      2.  
        Removing Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices from the listing of Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) disks
      3.  
        Migrating Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) disk groups on operating system devices to Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices
    8.  
      Enabling and disabling DMP support for the ZFS root pool
    9.  
      Adding DMP devices to an existing ZFS pool or creating a new ZFS pool
    10.  
      Removing DMP support for native devices
  3. Administering DMP
    1.  
      About enabling and disabling I/O for controllers and storage processors
    2.  
      About displaying DMP database information
    3.  
      Displaying the paths to a disk
    4.  
      Setting customized names for DMP nodes
    5. Managing DMP devices for the ZFS root pool
      1.  
        Configuring a mirror for the ZFS root pool using a DMP device
      2.  
        Updating the boot device settings
      3.  
        Using DMP devices as swap devices or dump devices
      4.  
        Cloning the boot environment with DMP
      5.  
        Creating a snapshot of an existing boot environment
    6. Administering DMP using the vxdmpadm utility
      1.  
        Retrieving information about a DMP node
      2.  
        Displaying consolidated information about the DMP nodes
      3.  
        Displaying the members of a LUN group
      4.  
        Displaying paths controlled by a DMP node, controller, enclosure, or array port
      5.  
        Displaying information about controllers
      6.  
        Displaying information about enclosures
      7.  
        Displaying information about array ports
      8.  
        User-friendly CLI outputs for ALUA arrays
      9.  
        Displaying information about devices controlled by third-party drivers
      10.  
        Displaying extended device attributes
      11.  
        Suppressing or including devices from VxVM control
      12. Gathering and displaying I/O statistics
        1.  
          Displaying cumulative I/O statistics
        2.  
          Displaying statistics for queued or erroneous I/Os
        3.  
          Examples of using the vxdmpadm iostat command
      13.  
        Setting the attributes of the paths to an enclosure
      14.  
        Displaying the redundancy level of a device or enclosure
      15.  
        Specifying the minimum number of active paths
      16.  
        Displaying the I/O policy
      17. Specifying the I/O policy
        1.  
          Scheduling I/O on the paths of an Asymmetric Active/Active or an ALUA array
        2.  
          Example of applying load balancing in a SAN
      18.  
        Disabling I/O for paths, controllers, array ports, or DMP nodes
      19.  
        Enabling I/O for paths, controllers, array ports, or DMP nodes
      20.  
        Renaming an enclosure
      21.  
        Configuring the response to I/O failures
      22.  
        Configuring the I/O throttling mechanism
      23.  
        Configuring Subpaths Failover Groups (SFG)
      24.  
        Configuring Low Impact Path Probing (LIPP)
      25.  
        Displaying recovery option values
      26.  
        Configuring DMP path restoration policies
      27.  
        Stopping the DMP path restoration thread
      28.  
        Displaying the status of the DMP path restoration thread
      29.  
        Configuring Array Policy Modules
      30.  
        Configuring latency threshold tunable for metro/geo array
  4. Administering disks
    1.  
      About disk management
    2. Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
      1.  
        Partial device discovery
      2. About discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays
        1.  
          How DMP claims devices
        2.  
          Disk categories
        3.  
          Adding DMP support for a new disk array
        4.  
          Enabling discovery of new disk arrays
      3.  
        About third-party driver coexistence
      4. How to administer the Device Discovery Layer
        1.  
          Listing all the devices including iSCSI
        2.  
          Listing all the Host Bus Adapters including iSCSI
        3.  
          Listing the ports configured on a Host Bus Adapter
        4.  
          Listing the targets configured from a Host Bus Adapter or a port
        5.  
          Listing the devices configured from a Host Bus Adapter and target
        6.  
          Getting or setting the iSCSI operational parameters
        7.  
          Listing all supported disk arrays
        8.  
          Excluding support for a disk array library
        9.  
          Re-including support for an excluded disk array library
        10.  
          Listing excluded disk arrays
        11.  
          Listing disks claimed in the DISKS category
        12.  
          Displaying details about an Array Support Library
        13.  
          Adding unsupported disk arrays to the DISKS category
        14.  
          Removing disks from the DISKS category
        15.  
          Foreign devices
    3.  
      VxVM coexistence with ZFS
    4. Changing the disk device naming scheme
      1.  
        Displaying the disk-naming scheme
      2.  
        Regenerating persistent device names
      3.  
        Changing device naming for enclosures controlled by third-party drivers
      4. Simple or nopriv disks with enclosure-based naming
        1.  
          Removing the error state for simple or nopriv disks in the boot disk group
        2.  
          Removing the error state for simple or nopriv disks in non-boot disk groups
    5.  
      Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based disk names
  5. Dynamic Reconfiguration of devices
    1.  
      About online Dynamic Reconfiguration
    2. About the DMPDR utility
      1.  
        Using the DMPDR utility to reconfigure the LUNs associated with a server
    3. Reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control using the Dynamic Reconfiguration tool
      1.  
        Removing LUNs dynamically from an existing target ID
      2.  
        Adding new LUNs dynamically to a target ID
      3.  
        Replacing LUNs dynamically from an existing target ID
      4.  
        Replacing a host bus adapter online
    4. Manually reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control
      1.  
        Overview of manually reconfiguring a LUN
      2.  
        Manually removing LUNs dynamically from an existing target ID
      3.  
        Manually adding new LUNs dynamically to a new target ID
      4.  
        About detecting target ID reuse if the operating system device tree is not cleaned up
      5.  
        Scanning an operating system device tree after adding or removing LUNs
      6.  
        Manually cleaning up the operating system device tree after removing LUNs
      7.  
        Manually replacing a host bus adapter on an M5000 server
    5.  
      Changing the characteristics of a LUN from the array side
    6.  
      Upgrading the array controller firmware online
  6. Event monitoring
    1.  
      About the Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) event source daemon (vxesd)
    2.  
      Fabric Monitoring and proactive error detection
    3.  
      Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) automated device discovery
    4.  
      Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) discovery of iSCSI and SAN Fibre Channel topology
    5.  
      DMP event logging
    6.  
      Starting and stopping the Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) event source daemon
  7. Performance monitoring and tuning
    1.  
      About tuning Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) with templates
    2.  
      DMP tuning templates
    3.  
      Example DMP tuning template
    4.  
      Tuning a DMP host with a configuration attribute template
    5.  
      Managing the DMP configuration files
    6.  
      Resetting the DMP tunable parameters and attributes to the default values
    7.  
      DMP tunable parameters and attributes that are supported for templates
    8.  
      DMP tunable parameters
  8. Appendix A. DMP troubleshooting
    1.  
      Displaying extended attributes after upgrading to DMP 9.0
    2.  
      Recovering from errors when you exclude or include paths to DMP
    3.  
      Downgrading the array support
  9. Appendix B. Reference
    1.  
      Command completion for InfoScale commands

Changing the disk device naming scheme

You can either use enclosure-based naming for disks or the operating system's naming scheme. DMP commands display device names according to the current naming scheme.

The default naming scheme is enclosure-based naming (EBN).

When you use Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) with native volumes, the disk naming scheme must be EBN, the use_avid attribute must be yes, and the persistence attribute must be set to yes.

Note:

Devices with very long device names (longer than 31 characters) are represented by enclosure-based names regardless of the naming scheme. If the OS-based names include WWN identifiers, the device name displays with the WWN identifier as long as the device name is less than 31 characters. If any device name is longer than 31 characters, that device name displays with an enclosure name.

To change the disk-naming scheme

  • Select Change the disk naming scheme from the vxdiskadm main menu to change the disk-naming scheme that you want DMP to use. When prompted, enter y to change the naming scheme.

    OR

    Change the naming scheme from the command line. Use the following command to select enclosure-based naming:

    # vxddladm set namingscheme=ebn [persistence={yes|no}] \
[use_avid={yes|no}] [lowercase={yes|no}]

    Use the following command to select operating system-based naming:

    # vxddladm set namingscheme=osn [persistence={yes|no}] \
[lowercase=yes|no]

    The optional persistence argument allows you to select whether the names of disk devices that are displayed by DMP remain unchanged after disk hardware has been reconfigured and the system rebooted. By default, enclosure-based naming is persistent. Operating system-based naming is not persistent by default.

    To change only the naming persistence without changing the naming scheme, run the vxddladm set namingscheme command for the current naming scheme, and specify the persistence attribute.

    By default, the names of the enclosure are converted to lowercase, regardless of the case of the name specified by the ASL. The enclosure-based device names are therefore in lowercase. Set the lowercase=no option to suppress the conversion to lowercase.

    For enclosure-based naming, the use_avid option specifies whether the Array Volume ID is used for the index number in the device name. By default, use_avid=yes, indicating the devices are named as enclosure_avid. If use_avid is set to no, DMP devices are named as enclosure_index. The index number is assigned after the devices are sorted by LUN serial number.

    The change is immediate whichever method you use.

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