I am having a problem with veritas volume manager. The problem is that for some reason, disks (external EMC) are being seen multiple times in vxdisk list.

Example:

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xxx.com:/root# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror rootdg online
c7t23d71s2 auto - - error
c7t23d71s2 auto - - error
c7t23d71s2 auto - - error
c7t23d71s2 auto - - error
c7t23d71s2 auto - - error
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Please ignore the error status, the disk isnt configured. But why does it show up multiple times? That one disk is actually one disk, but the system sees 5 of the same. Doesnt make any sense. One reconfigure reboot should fix it, but it doesnt clean up the extras.

v1280

xxx.com:/root# uname -a
SunOS xxx.com 5.8 Generic_117350-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12

xxx.com:/root# pkginfo -l VRTSvxvm
PKGINST: VRTSvxvm
NAME: VERITAS Volume Manager, Binaries
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 4.1,REV=02.17.2005.21.28
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: VERITAS Software
DESC: Virtual Disk Subsystem
PSTAMP: VERITAS-4.1z:2005-02-17
INSTDATE: Jun 17 2006 14:00
HOTLINE: 800-342-0652
EMAIL: support@veritas.com
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 809 installed pathnames
23 shared pathnames
17 linked files
98 directories
417 executables
291825 blocks used (approx)


xxx.com:/root# pkginfo -l VRTSvxfs
PKGINST: VRTSvxfs
NAME: VERITAS File System
CATEGORY: system,utilities
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 4.1,REV=4.1B18_sol_GA_s10b74L2a
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: VERITAS Software
DESC: Commercial File System
PSTAMP: VERITAS-4.1FS-2005-02-24
INSTDATE: Jun 17 2006 14:01
HOTLINE: (800) 342-0652
EMAIL: support@veritas.com
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 230 installed pathnames
33 shared pathnames
6 linked files
47 directories
73 executables
5 setuid/setgid executables
52745 blocks used (approx)

xxx.com:/root# pkginfo -l EMCpower
PKGINST: EMCpower
NAME: Symmetrix PowerPath
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: all
VERSION: 3.0.3_b030
BASEDIR: /opt
VENDOR: EMC
PSTAMP: beavis951018123443
INSTDATE: Sep 10 2004 15:36
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 84 installed pathnames
4 directories
80 executables
25985 blocks used (approx)


Any info or other experiences from anyone that has seen this would be helpful.

Thanks.
-Sowser

Kind of guessing here but:
The high LUN number suggests your are connecting to disks on some sort of SAN.
If you have multiple paths to the disks and havn't configured DMP (Dynamic MultiPathing) correctly then it could be showing up multiple times (once for each path).

Dragon is right. You need to see if you are running vxdmp.