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I have a VIO client with SuSe SLES10 SP2 running (standard installation)
I started multipath (/etc/init.d/boot.multipath and /etc/init.d/multipathd

But it seems that i does not work as i expect it to be (see the follwing commands with output)
Can someone tell me wat i am missing/forgetting?

nl015lmnp5171:~ # multipath -l

nl015lmnp5171:~ # multipath -ll

nl015lmnp5171:~ # multipath -d
create: mpatha (36005076303ffc61800000000000011ad) n/a AIX,VDASD
[size=40G][features=0][hwhandler=0]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
 \_ 3:0:1:0 sdb 8:16  [undef][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
 \_ 2:0:1:0 sda 8:0   [undef][ready]

nl015lmnp5171:~ # cat /var/lib/multipath/bindings
# Multipath bindings, Version : 1.0
# NOTE: this file is automatically maintained by the multipath program.
# You should not need to edit this file in normal circumstances.
#
# Format:
# alias wwid
#
mpatha 36005076303ffc61800000000000011ad

nl015lmnp5171:~ # dmsetup table
No devices found

nl015lmnp5171:~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nfs                   353464  0
lockd                 128584  1 nfs
nfs_acl                21800  1 nfs
sunrpc                246504  3 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
ipv6                  471672  140
apparmor               79112  0
loop                   41784  0
dm_round_robin         21976  0
dm_multipath           56312  1 dm_round_robin
dm_mod                119184  1 dm_multipath
ibmveth                42856  0
sg                     69968  0
ibmvscsic              48280  7
sr_mod                 42884  0
cdrom                  64912  1 sr_mod
pata_pdc2027x          32628  0
libata                197028  1 pata_pdc2027x
sd_mod                 45936  8
scsi_mod              231056  5 sg,ibmvscsic,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod

nl015lmnp5171:~ # df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1969424    738784   1130596  40% /
udev                   2051076       144   2050932   1% /dev
/dev/sda8               985704     17760    917872   2% /home
/dev/sda9              3937820     73440   3664344   2% /local
/dev/sda7               484882     10547    449299   3% /tmp
/dev/sda5              1969408   1468088    401276  79% /usr
/dev/sda6              1969408    115692   1753672   7% /var

For MPIO supporting AIX virtual scsi client partitions we generally have two VIO servers setup, each VIO Server provides one path, so the client partition has two vscsi adapters, one for each VIO server.

The VIO servers both see the same LUNS. One vital element is that the "reserved" access to the LUNS needs to be disabled so both VIO Servers have access to the LUNS at all times.

Properly setup the command lspath (AIX) shows e.g. hdisk0 vscsi0, hdisk0 vscsi1 as output

In summary, I would like to know more about how your VIO server is setup, virtual scsi setups, lsmap output, etc..

Well this is Linux (Suse)and not AIX
We have the 2 vio servers

But I already have found (after 2 weeks searching on the internet) the solution (on the redhat site the solution for SuSe, RH is the best  :D).

You must mount by device=id and not by-name. Furthermore you have to put dm-multipath at the INITRD_MODULES in the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file.
Run mkinitrd and maybe run lilo (don't forget to change the root name in device-id instead og by-name)

Well why can't this be standard on linux on Power (maybe it is for RH)

Greetz

Raoul

Thank you for your reply.

I only mentioned AIX as an example I knew, and wanted to be sure you were using two VIO servers. I have seen situations where multipath was expected, but only one path was available.

To assume, is to fail in some situations.

Glad you got it working - and regarding your suggestion for a default setting - comment on Suse's site. I have generally gotten good responses from Suse support.