LSM, voldg import fails

From: Hines, Bruce D (bruce.hines@eds.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 22:10:55 EST


Environment:
        5 x GS140 using EMC Symmetrix (scsi)
        Tru64 v5.1A (pk3)
        using scsi hubs to provide shared buses
        NO TruCluster (poor man's cluster)
        LSM dg represent the applications, failover occurs manually via
scripts

Situation:
        All five systems were upgraded from v4.0x to v5.1A. The first
attempted manual failover was unsuccessfull. LSM said disk volumes were not
usable on the failover host, worked fine on originating host. The following
messages appear on fail to host when booted. This represnt all the disk
volumes in two different dg, one of which was our test failover. Doing a
voldisk list on the fail to host yields following:

        dsk61 sliced - - online aliased

        same for all the disk volumes in the list below. The first thing
attempted was to have EMC turn on the C-bit to indicate multiple paths.
When we use hwmgr to show wwid for same disk, it has different wwid on each
host. Turning on C-bit did fix that but created all new disks. The
"rejected as clone" still appeared and disk volumes were not usable.

Solutions:
        We know the real solution is for our customer to purchase TruCluster
(and they know it) but we are attempting to get a poor man's cluster to work
in v5.1A. BTW, this was a working poor man's cluster in v4.0F.

starting LSM in boot mode
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk61: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk59: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk58: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk57: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk56: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk48: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk47: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk46: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk45: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk44: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk43: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk42: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk41: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk40: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk39: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk38: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk37: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk36: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk35: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk34: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk33: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk20: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk19: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk18: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk17: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk16: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk15: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk61: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk59: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk58: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk57: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk56: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk48: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk47: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk46: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk45: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk44: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk43: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk42: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk41: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk40: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk39: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk38: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk19: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk20: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk33: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk34: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk35: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk36: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk37: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk15: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk16: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk17: Disk rejected as clone
lsm:vold: WARNING: Disk dsk18: Disk rejected as clone

Thanks,
Bruce Hines
Systems Architect
EDS - Global Operations Service Delivery
AI TechEng Technology Planning
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