Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide

To Fail Over a Logical Unit

This operation is applicable only to devices in the following two categories:

Asymmetric devices with a proprietary failover mechanism recognized and supported by multipathing support
Devices conforming to the T10 Standard Target Port Group Support libmpscsi_vhci.so and providing explicit mode asymmetric logical unit access

Run the mpathadm list lu command.

# mpathadm list lu
    /dev/rdsk/c4t60020F20000035AF4267CCCB0002CEE2d0s2
        Total Path Count: 2
        Operational Path Count: 2
    /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
        Total Path Count: 2
        Operational Path Count: 2
    /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC1A000F1D6Cd0s2
        Total Path Count: 2
        Operational Path Count: 2

Select a logical unit name from the output.

Run the mpathadm show lu logical-unit-name command.

# mpathadm show lu /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
logical unit: /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
    mpath-support libmpscsi_vhci.so
     Vendor:  SUN
     Product:  T4
     Revision:  0301
     Name Type:  SCSI Inquiry VPD page 83 type 3
    Name:  60003ba27d2120004204ac2b000dab00
     Asymmetric:  yes
     Current Load Balance:  round-robin
     Logical Unit Group ID:  NA
     Auto Failback:  on
     Auto Probing:  NA

     Paths:
          Initiator Port Name:  2000000173818713
          Target Port Name:  20030003ba27d212
          Override Path:  NA
          Path State:  OK
          Disabled:  no

         Initiator Port Name:  2000000173018713
          Target Port Name:  20030003ba27d095
          Override path:  NA
          Path State:  OK
          Disabled:  no

     Target Port Groups:
          ID:  2
          Explicit Failover:  yes
          Access State:  standby
          Target Ports:
               Name:  20030003ba27d212
               Relative ID:  0
    
          ID:  5
          Explicit Failover:  yes
          Access State:  active
          Target Ports:
               Name:  20030003ba27d095
          Relative ID:  0

Run the mpathadm failover lu logical-unit-name command.
# mpathadm failover lu /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
If this operation is successful, the access state of the devices’ target port groups changes as a result of the logical unit failover.

Run the mpathadm show lu logical-unit-name command to verify the access state change.

# mpathadm show lu /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
logical unit: /dev/rdsk/c4t60003BA27D2120004204AC2B000DAB00d0s2
    mpath-support libmpscsi_vhci.so
     Vendor:  SUN
     Product:  T4
     Revision:  0301
     Name Type:  SCSI Inquiry VPD page 83 type 3
    Name:  60003ba27d2120004204ac2b000dab00
     Asymmetric:  yes
     Current Load Balance:  round-robin
     Logical Unit Group ID:  NA
     Auto Failback:  on
     Auto Probing:  NA

     Paths:
          Initiator Port Name:  2000000173818713
          Target Port Name:  20030003ba27d212
          Override Path:  NA
          Path State:  OK
          Disabled:  no

         Initiator Port Name:  2000000173018713
          Target Port Name:  20030003ba27d095
          Override path:  NA
          Path State:  OK
          Disabled:  no

     Target Port Groups:
          ID:  2
          Explicit Failover:  yes
          Access State: active
          Target Ports:
               Name:  20030003ba27d212
               Relative ID:  0
    
          ID:  5
          Explicit Failover:  yes
          Access State: standby
          Target Ports:
               Name:  20030003ba27d095
          Relative ID:  0