luxadm invalid pathhname and bad throughput

From: Slow San (slowsan@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 06:06:57 EDT


Hi all,
 
I have this configuration:
 
- 1 SunFire 1280
- 2 Sun Storedge 2Gb PCI Single Fibre channel network adapters
- 1 8 port 2Gbit FC switch
- 1 Sun Storedge 3510, 12 x 73 GB 10k RPM disks, FC-JBOD
- Solaris 9
- SAN Foundation software 4.2
- Traffic Manager software for multipathing
- Solaris Volume Manager
 
Now we have found some problems with luxadm command and SAN throughput:
 
# luxadm probe

No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es

Found Fibre Channel device(s):
  Node WWN:2000000c5018d82f Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5018D82Fd0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5018d894 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5018D894d0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5018e8e7 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5018E8E7d0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5018e49c Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5018E49Cd0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5018f73a Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5018F73Ad0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c50251bca Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C50251BCAd0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c50251bd5 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C50251BD5d0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c502517a8 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C502517A8d0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c502519a0 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C502519A0d0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5025165b Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5025165Bd0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c5025166c Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C5025166Cd0s2
  Node WWN:2000000c50251946 Device Type:Disk device
    Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C50251946d0s2

# luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c5t2000000C50251BCAd0s2

 Error: Invalid pathname - 2000000c50251bd5.

# luxadm -e dump_map 2000000c50251bd5

Error: converting 2000000c50251bd5 to physical path.
 Invalid pathname.
 Error: Invalid pathname - 2000000c50251bd5.

The last two commands shows an error. When we finished the SAN and Traffic manager installation this command worked fine. Then, we installed Solaris Volume Manager with RAID5 into the SAN, and now the commands always shows errors
 
I have anhother problem, maybe in ralation with the luxadm problem: the SAN throughput is very poor. In a Sun E4500 + A1000 (SCSI), when I make a copy command I have this iostat output (kw/s here 9000-9600):
 
pyrsap# iostat -xd 1 10|grep d340
device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b
md340 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.0 0.0 0.0 28.1 0 0
md340 1.0 73.2 8.0 8991.9 0.0 2.5 33.6 2 96
md340 0.0 73.3 0.0 9381.6 0.0 2.6 35.3 0 100
md340 1.0 77.0 8.0 9143.3 0.0 2.5 32.3 2 99
md340 1.0 76.0 8.0 9487.6 0.0 2.6 34.1 2 99
md340 0.0 77.0 0.0 9728.9 0.0 2.6 33.4 0 98
md340 1.0 75.0 8.0 9095.7 0.0 2.8 36.4 2 99
md340 0.0 74.0 0.0 9471.7 0.0 2.9 38.8 0 100
md340 1.0 79.0 8.0 9600.1 0.0 2.7 33.7 1 98
md340 0.0 75.0 0.0 9600.5 0.0 2.7 35.6 0 100
 
In the new platform (1280 + SAN), I have this iostat output with the same copy command(kw/s here 3300-3900)
 
prosap# iostat -xd 1 10|grep d300
device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b
md300 0.0 0.1 0.0 15.2 0.0 0.0 196.4 0 0
md300 1.0 31.8 7.9 3693.5 0.0 6.9 211.6 0 100
md300 0.0 31.0 0.0 3968.4 0.0 5.9 190.7 0 100
md300 0.0 28.0 0.0 3584.0 0.0 6.2 219.7 0 100
md300 0.0 27.0 0.0 3456.0 0.0 6.0 223.8 0 100
md300 1.0 28.0 8.0 3344.3 0.0 6.6 226.6 0 100
md300 0.0 28.0 0.0 3319.4 0.0 6.9 247.6 0 100
md300 0.0 29.0 0.0 3712.6 0.0 7.0 241.2 0 100
md300 0.0 26.0 0.0 3328.0 0.0 6.7 258.0 0 100
md300 0.0 29.0 0.0 3711.9 0.0 5.9 204.7 0 100

Thanks in advance,
Steve.
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