EMC PowerPath marks paths and SP as dead in RHEL

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Issue

  • Storage paths failed and applications or file systems on those devices reported I/O errors
  • LUNs are missing and we tried to make LUNs enable all the ways we can but were unsuccessful
  • /var/log/messages shows paths being marked as dead:
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 5 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 0 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 2 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 4 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 6 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 3 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Path Bus 1 Tgt 0 Lun 1 to APM00091103916 is dead.
May  5 05:59:39 node1 kernel: Error:Mpx:Bus 1 to Clariion   APM00091103916 port SP A6 is dead.
  • powermt shows paths marked as dead
Pseudo name=emcpowere
CLARiiON ID=APM00091103916 [DLP09XWAP]
Logical device ID=60060160824020001C05C626FB43DE11 [LUN 990]
state=dead; policy=CLAROpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0; 
Owner: default=SP A, current=SP A       Array failover mode: 1
==============================================================================
--------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path --  -- Stats ---
###  HW Path               I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State   Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   0 qla2xxx                  sdc       SP A5     active  dead        0      1
   0 qla2xxx                  sdj       SP B5     active  dead        0      1
   1 qla2xxx                  sdq       SP A6     active  dead        0      1
   1 qla2xxx                  sdx       SP B6     active  dead        0      1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4
  • EMC PowerPath

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