Multipathing Configuration.

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Hi All,

I have a Dell Server where I did connect a storage back to back. And presented six 597G Luns. and configured Multipathing. Not sure if this set up right. And when I do run this command I do get this output.
fdisk -l| grep Disk\ \/dev
Disk /dev/sda: 119.5 GB, 119453777920 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 898.3 GB, 898319253504 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_uscsrvpdb01-lv_root: 52.1 GB, 52080672768 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_uscsrvpdb01-lv_swap: 67.1 GB, 67108864000 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_db-lv_db: 898.3 GB, 898315059200 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdd: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sde: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdf: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdg: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdh: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdi: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdk: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdj: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdm: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdl: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdn: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathab: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathaa: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathac: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathad: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathae: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathaf: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes

And when I do multipath -ll command I do see this.

multipath -ll
May 16 13:36:32 | /etc/multipath.conf line 15, invalid keyword: devnode
mpathaf (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7557356cfa) dm-8 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
| - 14:0:0:5 sdm 8:192 active ready running-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled
- 13:0:0:5 sdn 8:208 active ready running
mpathae (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7b57356d36) dm-7 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
|- 14:0:0:4 sdk 8:160 active ready running
-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled- 13:0:0:4 sdl 8:176 active ready running
mpathad (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7957356d24) dm-6 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
| - 14:0:0:3 sdi 8:128 active ready running-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled
- 13:0:0:3 sdj 8:144 active ready running
mpathac (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7757356d14) dm-5 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
|- 14:0:0:2 sdg 8:96 active ready running
-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled- 13:0:0:2 sdh 8:112 active ready running
mpathab (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7357356cde) dm-4 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
| - 14:0:0:1 sde 8:64 active ready running-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled
- 13:0:0:1 sdf 8:80 active ready running
mpathaa (36782bcb00014e0e300003d7057356c76) dm-3 DELL,MD32xxi
size=556G features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=14 status=active
|- 14:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 active ready running
-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=9 status=enabled- 13:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 active ready running

My question is:
Is it ok that I'm seeing /dev/sd* disk when I'm running fdisk command or it mean that I do configure multipathing wrongly?

Disk /dev/sdd: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sde: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdf: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdg: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdh: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdi: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdj: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdk: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdm: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdl: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/sdn: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathaa: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathab: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathac: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathad: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathae: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mpathaf: 597.0 GB, 597000454144 bytes

Thanks for help.

FS

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