multipath command output report errors: path not correctly configured for failover
Issue
- Why multipath devices are marked as failed?
multipath -ll
shows below error messages :
# multipath -ll
sda: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover"
sdb: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover"
sdc: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover"
sdd: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover"
sde: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Logical Unit is unbound or LUNZ"
sdg: checker msg is "emc_clariion_checker: Logical Unit is unbound or LUNZ"
- New LUNs from an EMC VNX5500 are connected and visible to multipath. Upon reboot, the LUNs are not available until a scsi-rescan is performed, and then are not available to LVM until
lvchange -ay
is performed. This has to be done on each reboot. Following messages observed in/var/log/messages
:
Jun 18 07:21:02 localhost multipathd: sdr: emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover
Jun 18 07:21:03 localhost multipathd: sds: emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover
Jun 18 07:21:03 localhost multipathd: sdt: emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover
Jun 18 07:21:03 localhost multipathd: sdu: emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured for failover
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Device-Mapper-Multipath (DM-Multipath)
- EMC CLARiiON
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