Dell PowerVault MD3620i Owner's Manual - Page 194
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• Failback can be slow when the host system is experiencing heavy I/O. The problem is exacerbated if the host server is also experiencing very high CPU utilization. • The Device Mapper Multipath service can be slow when the host system is experiencing heavy I/O. The problem is exacerbated if the host server is also experiencing very high CPU utilization. • If the root disk is not blacklisted in the multipath.conf file, a multipathing node may be created for the root disk. The command multipath -ll lists vendor/product ID, which can help identify this issue. Troubleshooting Question Answer How can I check if multipathd is Run the following command. running? /etc/init.d/multipathd status Why does the multipath -ll command output not show any devices? First verify if the devices are discovered or not. The command #cat /proc/scsi/scsi displays all the devices that are already discovered. Then verify the multipath.conf to ensure that it is been updated with proper settings. After this, run multipath. Then run multipath -ll, the new devices should show up. Why is a newly-mapped LUN not Run rescan_dm_devs in any directory. This assigned a multipathing device should bring up the devices. node? I have no LUNs mapped before. Run rescan_dm_devs instead of rescanThen I map some LUNs. After scsi-bus for LUN 0 reconfiguration. running rescan-scsi-bus.sh, LUN 0 doesn't show up. 194 Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux