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Newly added NED24 NVME Expansion disk cause NVMe Discovery Controller

  • 1.  Newly added NED24 NVME Expansion disk cause NVMe Discovery Controller

    Posted Tue October 29, 2024 12:44 PM
    Edited by FAZIL MURAD Tue October 29, 2024 01:35 PM

    After adding the new NED24 NVMe expansion disk to the Power 10 9043-MRX server using the EJ2A adapter, the fcs adapter on port 0 now shows a child NVMe Discovery Controller. This change has caused a longer completion time for both rebooting and running cgrmgr. It impacted all the LPAR . Reference code 3040

    # lsdev -C | grep 05-00
    fcnvme0    Available 05-00-02    FC-NVMe Protocol Device
    fcs0       Available 05-00       PCIe3 2-Port 32Gb FC Adapter (df1000e314101506)
    fscsi0     Available 05-00-01    FC SCSI I/O Controller Protocol Device
    nvme2      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme3      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme4      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme5      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme6      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme7      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme8      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme9      Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme10     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme11     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme12     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme13     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme14     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme15     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme16     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme17     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Discovery Controller
    nvme34     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme35     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme36     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme37     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme38     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme39     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme40     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme41     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme42     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme43     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme44     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme45     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme46     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme47     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme48     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    nvme49     Defined   05-00-02    NVMe Dynamic Controller
    sfwcomm0   Available 05-00-01-FF Fibre Channel Storage Framework Comm

    #cfgmgr

    attempting to configure device 'nvme33'
    Time: 31        LEDS: 0x3040
    invoking /usr/lib/methods/cfgnvmeof -l nvme33 
    Number of running methods: 32


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