Problem

How Device discovery works with Solaris

Error Message
Discovery process

Solution
How Device discovery works:

Device discovery is the term used to describe the process of discovering the disks that are attached to
a host. This feature is important for DMP because it needs to support a growing number of disk arrays
from a number of vendors. In conjunction with the ability to discover the devices attached to a host,
the Device Discovery service enables you to add support dynamically for new disk arrays. This oper
ation, which uses a facility called the Device Discovery Layer (DDL), is achieved without the need for
a reboot.

This means that you can dynamically add a new disk array to a host, and run a command which scans
the operating system’s device tree for all the attached disk devices, and reconfigures DMP with the ne
w device database.

How to administer the Device Discovery Layer

The Device Discovery Layer (DDL) allows dynamic addition of disk arrays. DDL discovers disks and
their attributes that are required for VxVM operations. The DDL is administered using the vxddladm
utility to perform the following tasks:
■ List the hierarchy of all the devices discovered by DDL including iSCSI devices.
■ List all the Host Bus Adapters including iSCSI
■ List the ports configured on a Host Bus Adapter
■ List the targets configured from a Host Bus Adapter
■ List the devices configured from a Host Bus Adapter
■ Get or set the iSCSI operational parameters
■ List the types of arrays that are supported.
■ Add support for an array to DDL.
■ Remove support for an array from DDL.
■ List information about excluded disk arrays.
■ List disks that are supported in the DISKS (JBOD) category.
■ Add disks from different vendors to the DISKS category.
■ Remove disks from the DISKS category.
■ Add disks as foreign devices

About detecting target ID reuse if the operating system device tree isnot cleaned up

If you try to reprovision a LUN or set of LUNs whose previously-valid operating system device
entries are not cleaned up, the following messages are displayed.
Also, DMP reconfiguration during the DMP device scan and DMP reconfiguration are temporarily
inhibited.

See “Cleaning up the operating system device tree after removing LUNs”on page 220.
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-14519 Data Corruption Protection Activated- User Corrective Action
Needed
VxVM vxdisk INFO V-5-1-14521 To recover, first ensure that the OSdevice tree is up to date
(requires OS specific commands).
VxVM vxdisk INFO V-5-1-14520 Then, execute 'vxdisk rm' on thefollowing devices before
reinitiating device discovery. <DA names>
The message above indicates that a new LUN is trying to reuse the target ID of an older LUN. The
device entries have not been cleaned, so the new LUN cannotuse the target ID. Until the operating
system device tree is cleaned up, DMP prevents this operation.