After adding a new SAN Disks, VxVM unable to see the newly added devices.

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Description

Error Message

# prtvtoc_c10t50000972081B0914d38s2

prtvtoc: /dev/rdsk/c10t50000972081B0914d38s2: Unable to read Disk geometry errno = 0x16

From format:

42.  c10t50060482D5309768d38 /pci@1c,600000/QLGC,qla@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w50060482d5309768,26

From VxVM:

/dev/rdsk/c10t50000972081B0914d38s2 open failed: I/O error ioctl failed: Bad file number Vendor id : Product id : Revision : Serial Number :

Cause

Newly added devices not visible by OS nor Vxvm. The OS may not be seeing these devices correctly.

Resolution

After rebooting the system, the devices were then visible in the 'vxdisk list' output.

 

 

Issue/Introduction

Newly added SAN devices not seen by VxVM.