Some paths are missing in multipath?

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Issue

  • Some sub paths are missing in multipath. I have tried to force lip the HBA card as well, and the storage team have confirmed that they can see no errors on their side.

    • The hardware is IBM X3650. There are two HBAs configured each with 2 paths:

      1a:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Saturn-X: LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 03)
      1a:00.1 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Saturn-X: LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 03)
      

      But multupath is not listing some of the paths randomly:

      mpath1 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000000) dm-7 IBM,2145
      [size=140G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=50][active]
      \_ 5:0:0:1 sdc 8:32   [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:2:1 sdk 8:160  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:0:1 sds 65:32  [active][ready]
      mpath0 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000001) dm-6 IBM,2145
      [size=80G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][active]
      \_ 5:0:2:0 sdj 8:144  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:0:0 sdr 65:16  [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:0:0 sdb 8:16   [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:2:0 sdz 65:144 [active][ready]
      mpath2 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000002) dm-13 IBM,2145
      [size=125G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=50][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:3:3 sdq 65:0   [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:1:3 sdi 8:128  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:1:3 sdy 65:128 [active][ready]
      mpath3 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000003) dm-12 IBM,2145
      [size=50G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:1:2 sdh 8:112  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:1:2 sdx 65:112 [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=10][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:3:2 sdp 8:240  [active][ready]
      mpath4 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000004) dm-11 IBM,2145
      [size=80G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:1:1 sdg 8:96   [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:1:1 sdw 65:96  [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=10][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:3:1 sdo 8:224  [active][ready]
      mpath5 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000005) dm-10 IBM,2145
      [size=50G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][active]
      \_ 5:0:1:0 sdf 8:80   [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:1:0 sdv 65:80  [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=10][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:3:0 sdn 8:208  [active][ready]
      mpath6 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000006) dm-8 IBM,2145
      [size=601G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=50][active]
      \_ 5:0:0:2 sdd 8:48   [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:2:2 sdl 8:176  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:0:2 sdt 65:48  [active][ready]
      mpath7 (3600c0ff0001187d84537fe5101000007) dm-9 IBM,2145
      [size=75G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:2:3 sdm 8:192  [active][ready]
      \_ 6:0:0:3 sdu 65:64  [active][ready]
      \_ round-robin 0 [prio=10][enabled]
      \_ 5:0:0:3 sde 8:64   [active][ready]
      

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 5.5
  • Device Mapper Multipath(DM Multipath)

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