Why Device Mapper Multipath failing to create maps for boot from SAN disk in RHEL 6/7?
Issue
- Server is booting from single scsi path, multipath devices not getting created.
multipath -ll
does not return any paths? - I'm trying to configure BootOnSan on my server Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EMC. The problem I have is that multipath -ll command don't return anything.
- Hereunder, you will find the /etc/multipath.conf file I use and another commands :
# cat /etc/multipath.conf
defaults {
find_multipaths yes
user_friendly_names yes
}
blacklist {
devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]"
devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*"
}
devices {
device {
vendor "DGC"
product "*"
prio tpg_pref
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
features "1 queue_if_no_path"
failback immediate
hardware_handler "1 alua"
}
}
[root@localhost ~]# multipath -ll
[root@localhost ~]# multipath -l
[root@localhost ~]# multipath -d
create: mpatha (3600601608db038002f6972087458e511) undef DGC,VRAID
size=50G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=undef
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=130 status=undef
| `- 2:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 undef ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=undef
`- 2:0:0:0 sda 8:0 undef ready running
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6/7
- Boot From SAN/DM Multipath
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