Multipath shows "failed faulty running" status for all luns on Hitachi DF600F storage

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Hitachi DF600F storage array
  • multipath

Issue

  • Allocated Hitachi HUS150 storage for the new RHEL 6 servers and the new luns were visible after the system reboot. However there are some weird issues with the multipath configuration: it shows the status as failed faulty for all the SAN luns. multipath -v3 reports checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down"

  • The luns have the correct number of paths on the storage side.

mpathg (360060e80101af5a0058baf2a00000096) dm-12 HITACHI,DF600F
size=50G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled
  |- 1:0:0:1  sdc  8:32   failed faulty running
  `- 2:0:0:1  sdr  65:16  failed faulty running
...
lpfc 0000:06:00.1: 1:(0):2757 Protocol failure detected during processing of FCP I/O op: tgt x0 lun xb cmnd x28 rspInfo3 x2
lpfc 0000:06:00.1: 1:(0):2757 Protocol failure detected during processing of FCP I/O op: tgt x0 lun xc cmnd x28 rspInfo3 x2
lpfc 0000:06:00.1: 1:(0):2757 Protocol failure detected during processing of FCP I/O op: tgt x0 lun xd cmnd x28 rspInfo3 x2
lpfc 0000:06:00.1: 1:(0):2757 Protocol failure detected during processing of FCP I/O op: tgt x0 lun xe cmnd x28 rspInfo3 x2

Resolution

  • Add a space after "HITACHI" on the "vendor" line in multipath.conf. For example:
vendor                  "HITACHI "

Root Cause

The "vendor" value for the Hitachi storage is required to be 8 characters long.

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