Linux SAN Multi path for HP EVA Storage

Instead of installing the original device-mapper-multipath package there is a simillar package from HP called HPDMmultipath-[version].tar.gz that has already a configuration for HP EVA and XP storage devices. The HPDMmultipath-[version].tar.gz can be downloaded from www.hp.com

# tar -zxvf HPDMmultipath-3.0.0.tar.gz
# cd HPDMmultipath-3.0.0/RPMS
# rpm -ivh HPDMmultipath-tools[version]-[Linux-Version]-[ARCH].rpm

# vim /etc/multipath.conf

defaults {
udev_dir /dev
polling_interval 10
selector "round-robin 0"
path_grouping_policy failover
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
prio_callout "/bin/true"
path_checker tur
rr_min_io 100
rr_weight uniform
failback immediate
no_path_retry 12
user_friendly_names yes
}

devnode_blacklist {
devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
devnode "^hd[a-z]"
devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*"
}

devices {

device {
vendor "HP|COMPAQ"
product "HSV1[01]1 \(C\)COMPAQ|HSV2[01]0"
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
path_checker tur
path_selector "round-robin 0"
prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_alua /dev/%n"
rr_weight uniform
failback immediate
hardware_handler "0"
no_path_retry 12
}

device {
vendor "HP"
product "OPEN-.*"
path_grouping_policy multibus
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
path_selector "round-robin 0"
rr_weight uniform
prio_callout "/bin/true"
path_checker tur
hardware_handler "0"
failback immediate
no_path_retry 12
}

}


Show paths to an EVA8000 storage array.

# multipath -ll
mpath0 (3600508b4001054a20001100001c70000)
[size=4.0G][features="1 queue_if_no_path"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=200][active]
\_ 0:0:1:1 sdd 8:48 [active][ready]
\_ 0:0:3:1 sdj 8:144 [active][ready]
\_ 1:0:2:1 sds 65:32 [active][ready]
\_ 1:0:3:1 sdv 65:80 [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=40][enabled]
\_ 0:0:0:1 sda 8:0 [active][ready]
\_ 0:0:2:1 sdg 8:96 [active][ready]
\_ 1:0:0:1 sdm 8:192 [active][ready]
\_ 1:0:1:1 sdp 8:240 [active][ready]


ProLiant Support Pack (PSP)

While installing PSP from HP, unckeck the HBA failover driver in the installation screen, otherwise a new kernel will be installed and the above installed multipathing driver isn’t working correctly anomymore.