Drive offline and reservation conflict errors seen for devices when trying to setup for vxvm via vxdisksetup

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Description

Error Message


The errors will be seen in /var/adm/messages...
 
Below example for drive type as UNKNOWN and for EMC Clariion array 

scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] Warning:/pci@fc,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w5006016210602be1,7a (ssd1190):
offline or reservation conflict

scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] Warning:/pci@fc,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w5006016210602be1,7a (ssd1190):
offline or reservation conflict

Resolution

The recommendation is to run format -e /dev/vx/rdmp/
Post that, we can initialize LUNs in VxVM
 

 

 

Issue/Introduction

When using vxdisksetup to setup devices to use with Veritas VxVM, several drives report as offline and reservation conflict errors