[Veritas-vx] SCSI3 persistent reservation keys and clearing themout.

[Peter DrakeUnderkoffler]

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data disks and just VM.

Thanks
Peter

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Jim Senicka wrote:
> Coordinator disks or data disks?
> Is this standard VM or CVM?
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-vx-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-vx-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Peter
> DrakeUnderkoffler
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:08 AM
> To: veritas-vx at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-vx] SCSI3 persistent reservation keys and clearing
> themout.
> 
> I have an environment where some tinkering was done and there are 4 LUNs
> (DMX-3) which have SCSI3 keys in place that can not be removed. This is
> RedHat 4 update 4 32bit with SF HA 4.1 and MP4.  There are two nodes in
> the cluster and the keys can not be cleared by either node.  I've tried
> vxfenadm with both "-x" and "-p" along with the "-k" and the ASCII name
> as well as "-K" with the numerical name, but none work, I get a:
> 
> VCS FEN vxfenadm ERROR V-11-2-1120 Unregistration FAILED for:
> /dev/emcpowerav VCS FEN vxfenadm ERROR V-11-2-1133 Error returned
> 
> for each device.  I have also tried the "vxfenclearpre" but that does
> not clear anything out.
> I have also tried disabling the SCSI3 setting on those devices within
> the DMX and then re-enabling them, but the keys remain persistent and
> only the capability is turned off/on.
> 
> I have also tried the process of adding a key and then removing it
> preempting it with the new temp key.
> 
> Is there another trick to removing defunct keys?
> 
> Thanks
> Peter
> 
> --
> 
> Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
> Xinupro, LLC
> 617-834-2352
> 
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