Originally posted by: PopeyeSailor

Hi , i am just a beginner SA , and as with most SA's challenging task is to get the storage configured with so many forms of virtualization on IBM hardware .

position is like this , how to find the correct LUN assigned to the VIO client ??

I am looking for a principal property that is shared between System admin and SAN admin like serial number which is unique and does not change on any virtualization level , please advise is there any such property which i can get from the AIX (VIO Client) to confirm that the storage is a new Logical Unit Number (LUN) assigned by Storage Admin to this VIO Client a.k.a AIX server.

please advise.
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Originally posted by: The_Doctor

try this on your VIO Server

/home/padmin > $ chkdev -dev hdiskNNN -verbose   OR   /home/padmin > $ lsdev -dev hdiskNNN -attr

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Originally posted by: The_Doctor

BTW, that really only works for VSCSI LUNs.

If you're using NPIV, then the VIO Server won't see the LUNs (unless you zone them).

NPIV LUNs are generally only zoned to the Client LPAR.
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Originally posted by: dv8

Depending on the storage vendor, they may provide utilities that help identify the LUN information you're looking for. For example, in my case, we use EMC storage. They provide an inq utility to scan the storage LUNs. See sample output below. The first column is the hdisk device that the AIX team would reference while the serial number column (second to last) includes the LUN ID that storage team uses as a reference.

Inquiry utility, Version V7.3-1214 (Rev 0.1) (SIL Version V7.3.0.1 (Edit Level 1214)
Copyright (C) by EMC Corporation, all rights reserved.
For help type inq -h.

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DEVICE :VEND :PROD :REV :SER NUM :CAP(kb)

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/dev/rhdiskpower0 :DGC :VRAID :0430 :044D5172 : 251658240
/dev/rhdiskpower1 :DGC :VRAID :0430 :034D5172 : 429916160
/dev/rhdiskpower2 :DGC :VRAID :0430 :104DFA2B : 262144000
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Originally posted by: kamdard

You can also do "lsattr -El hdisk<X>" and search for "unique_id".

Hope this helps.

Regards,
DK.
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Originally posted by: PopeyeSailor

Thanks for the information , but the UUID and World Wide LUN Name are different.

Storage gave this :

LUN ID:39
World Wide LUN Name: 6001-4380-05de-f943-0000-7000-0bc2-0000

UUID is different from this.

how to find ? its HP EVA.

thanks.
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Originally posted by: PopeyeSailor

found my answer in

lsattr -El hdisk#

find the unique_id and extract the World Wide Lun Number from that to confirm which lun storage has added.
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Originally posted by: PopeyeSailor

Thanks Kamdard , it worked.
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Originally posted by: PopeyeSailor

Storage LUN <> OS mapping on VIO client identified.
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