Questions tagged [powerpath]

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Why does my lvm2 volume group only work with multipath device mapper and not powerpath?

My server is an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL5) on an hp blade (x64) with qlogic HBAs connected to an EMC clariion SAN. We are migrating from multipath to powerpath, because emc and the company storage team will not support multipath. Currently…
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vSphere 5 and Powerpath/VE?

I am in the process of setting up our vSphere 5 environment. With previous version of vSphere I have used the native pathing with VMware but I now want to investigate Powerpath/VE since it now works for v5. Has anyone swapped over to using…
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Is it possible to dynamically resize emc lun which is using powerpath

*I have the below mount which is coming from EMC storage and uses powerpath drivers .Now Storage has resized this to 1.5 TB , is it possible to resize this in host without any downtime . [root@xxxxxxx emcpowera]# powermt display…
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EMC PowerPath Support Matrix

I know this is a stupid question, but I've found nothing online. Does anyone know where EMC has hidden the support matrix documentation so that I know what version of PowerPath is supported with which version of FLARE?
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What does powercf do on the Solaris file system or EMC storage?

When I run powercf command on my Solaris machine, what changes does this command do on the EMC storage, or on Solaris file system? From the manual: DESCRIPTION During system boot on Solaris hosts, the powercf utility configures PowerPath …
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