Runaway I/O on SAN disk using RHEL with EMC PowerPath

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

IO appears to be 100% on SAN disk and makes the device inaccessible. sda/sdb are two paths to the same vxfs filesystem.

iostat -x 2 output:

sda               0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdb               0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00   182.09    0.00   0.00 100.05
VxVM65534         0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00   172.09    0.00   0.00 100.05

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3
  • EMC PowerPath 5.3

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