fdisk -l sees the new disk, but vxdisk list does not seeing it
Article ID: 100003255
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Description
Error Message
VxVM vxscsiinq ERROR V-5-1-8856 ./vxscsiinq issue_scsi_ioctl: ioctl failed for /dev/xvda
Cause
Vxvm does not recognize it disk
./vxscsiinq /dev/xvda
ioctl failed: Invalid argument
VxVM vxscsiinq ERROR V-5-1-8856 ./vxscsiinq issue_scsi_ioctl: ioctl failed for /dev/xvda, status = -1 ERRNO = 1d
VxVM vxscsiinq ERROR V-5-1-8887 ./vxscsiinq: Error returned from issue_scsi_ioctl
Resolution
As of now, we only support specific devices (ide,scsi,iscsi,ssd,emcpower) and xen devices are not supported yet. Like /dev/xvda ( it is not "sd" device format)
Suggestion: Customer was running the xen server with storage and VXVM was not running on it . Customer was presenting new devices from the Xen server to the Virtual machines. The Virtual Machine(client) was actually running standard VxVM, and suggested customer to install VxVm on the Xen server then export VxVm devices to the virtual machines.
Applies To
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 26214400 hda
3 1 104391 hda1
3 2 26105625 hda2
253 0 13172736 dm-0
253 1 12910592 dm-1
202 0 52429440 xvda
202 1 52428096 xvda1
Issue/Introduction
mp_xp10k_lun9 (360060e8004a56a000000a56a00000009) dm-5 HP,OPEN-V
[size=50G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
\_ 2:0:0:5 sdf 8:80 [active][undef]
\_ 3:0:0:5 sdl 8:176 [active][undef]
