How to statically assign an alias based on wwid to a multipath device in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How to statically assign an alias to a multipath device in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
  • Multipath output is just showing wwid, and I want to provide a descriptive text name for the mpath device instead:

Instead of this:           60123456789abcdef0123456789abcde dm-3 EMC     ,Symmetrix
this:            MyOwnName 60123456789abcdef0123456789abcde dm-3 EMC     ,Symmetrix

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  • DM-Multipath

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