[SunHELP] redhat 5 / emc disk ?

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I haven't used linux with our EMC arrays but the first thing I would do 
is check EMC certify on powerlink.  You should be able to select the 
array, OS, hba model, etc and have it produce a report on what hba 
firmware, patches, driver settings and kernel settings are recommended 
for use with the specific array.  I don't see any output here so did you 
have something like 1 physical device path and 8 pseudo paths or 
something?  It could be coming in from the kernel or multipath (which I 
have not used) not sure.  Is it a dev box where you could temporarily 
remove multipath?  Just some ideas.

Sorry if my response seems generic or obvious :)


stephen price wrote:
> Anybody running rh5 (5.4) enterprise with emc disk?
>
> Our company going down this path away from solaris sparc it seems - and the storage team that I'm on has been tasked with making it as seemless as it is under solaris in our environment etc.  Also we're going to look at rh5 as the netbackup master server platform as well.
>
> So today I get access to the first redhat box I've seen in many decades and we present a dmx lun to it.  No powerpath - but I think the multipath rpm is installed.
>
> So both inq and lsscsi show 9 paths to the lun on a single hba.
>
> Is this normal for redhat?  
>
> Any way to carve it down?
>
> Found a couple of redhat forums hits about the same general topic - but no specific fix etc.
>
> Note - I'm not the unix admins .... so please no rtfm quotes/suggestions <grin> - but a good pointer to docs would help for this "particular" situation!
>
> Personal experiences/fixes welcomed as well !!
>
> TIA
> steve
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