Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Please share some knowledge about vpath and where i can get any book which explain vpath funda....

Originally posted by: dukessd

Let me google that for you
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site:ibm.com+aix+vpath

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Best response ever to an OP who can't bother with whole words when asking for free help after doing ZERO homework first.

Originally posted by: dukessd

Thanks.
And I was polite :-)

Let me try out some of that flashy markup stuff for those that cannot even be bothered to cut and paste the URL, we'll see if it works as you cannot edit posts here, I'll go to bed if it fails...

URLhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=site:ibm.com+aix+vpath[/URL]

Originally posted by: dukessd

Oh well, bed time for me them :-(

Originally posted by: JGaj

The 2nd result is actually link to this thread :)

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

AIX Guru,

You may call me lazy but it's sometime very deficult to understand something when no one is helping you not even google.
Sorry for desturbing you..

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Were you not JUST given an example of how Google can help you?

Originally posted by: jvk

Dear AIX,

vpath is a pseudo device know from IBM multipathing SW called SDD.

So more info you can find in the SDD User's Guide available for you on this web page. Some copy-paste sentences from there:

Each SDD vpath device represents a unique physical device on the storage server. Each physical device is presented to the operating system as an operating system disk device. There can be up to 32 operating system disk devices that represent up to 32 different paths to the same physical device. However recommendation is to use not more than 4 to 8 different paths to the same physical device. The SDD vpath devices behave almost like native operating system disk devices. You can use most disk device operations of operating systems on the SDD vpath devices, including commands such as open, close, dd, or fsck.

Have fun!

Originally posted by: tony.evans

With SDD, paths (vpathxxx) are disks and disks are paths. Software written by people with a sense of humour.