Solaris

Hello,

I have an issue with veritas volume manager version 5.0 in combination with EMC powerpath version 5.2.0 running on Solaris10(Sparc). This server is fiber connected to a EMC Clariion CX3-40 SAN.

This is the situation :

Server is a SUN Enterprise M5000
OS = Solaris10 Sparc
Veritas Volume Manager = 5.0
EMC Powerpath = 5.2.0
SAN = EMC Clariion CX3-40

Problem description :

The server contains already a lot of LUNS which are available and seen by Powerpath and Veritas without a problem.
When i want to add a new LUN i follow these steps :

-create LUN on SAN
-Add it via powerpath
powermt display dev=all (device is not seen)
powermt config
powermt display dev=all (device is available)
powermt save

-configure controller commands
cfgadm -c configure c1
cfgadm -c configure c2

-Format disk
format < /dev/null (powerpath device available)
format <powerpath-device>
disk
label
ver

-vx commands
vxdisk list (volume not available)
vxdctl enable
vxdisk list (volume still not available)


And here is the problem that veritas doesn't see my new LUN untill i add an 2nd new lun, then he can see the 1st one i created, if i then want to see the 2nd LUN in need to add a 3rd one and so on.

Does anyone of you guys has experience with it and is there a way to solve it without a reboot of that server as this is a critical production machine.

Thanks in advance for youre reply's.
Kind regards,
Nico

try re-installing the powerpath license and re-run devfsadm -C , powercf -q and powermt config commands. if problem still persists, you might want to perform a re-config boot