device-mapper-multipath fails to map devices accessed via cciss controller in RHEL 5
Issue
- multipath does not work on HP storage with CCISS driver, even after updating to RHEL5.6 device-mapper-multipath
- multipath command running on top CCISS device does not create multipath map
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- device-mapper-multipath prior to release 0.4.7-48.el5
- Storage devices accessed via HP Smart Array cciss controller
- Storage device configured (automatically or manually in /etc/multipath.conf) to use the mpath_prio_alua priority callout
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