1.25.2012

VXFS: Idle LUN Probing and NetApp


If you are seeing a LUN go online-offline over and over in your DMP log and you are using NetApp for your back end storage it might be due to Veritas' idle LUN probing feature.

The idle LUN probing sub-module of VXFS feature is designed to allow volume manager to establish state information for paths that are not current receiving any IO activity. However it does not work with NetApp arrays; to turn this option off on a system with NetApp LUNs issue the following command that is not system impacting. See the following URL for details:
           
# vxdmpadm settune dmp_probe_idle_lun=off

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