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Solutions Enabler and Veritas Storage Foundations
I am having a strange issue with Solutions Enabler 6.3 and Veritas Storage Foundations 4.1.
When I have Solutions Enabler installed my Veritas commands/operations take a really LONG time to complete. I truss the processes and for whatever reason the Veritas commands are spawning several symdev and sympd commands. It looks like the system is running symdev show and sympd commands on every device in the system before the Veritas command will return. See a snippet below:
root 20275 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
root 20275 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20286 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -EA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20291 25124 0 16:07:36 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
A command as simple as vxdisksetup is taking 15 minutes to run. However, if I remove/uninstall Solutions Enabler and run the same commands in Veritas they come back immediately. I want to leave Solutions Enabler installed but this is getting really old. Has anybody seen this behavior?
Solaris 10
Storage Foundations 4.1 MP1
Solutions Enabler 6.3
When I have Solutions Enabler installed my Veritas commands/operations take a really LONG time to complete. I truss the processes and for whatever reason the Veritas commands are spawning several symdev and sympd commands. It looks like the system is running symdev show and sympd commands on every device in the system before the Veritas command will return. See a snippet below:
root 20275 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
root 20275 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20286 25124 0 16:07:35 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -EA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20291 25124 0 16:07:36 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symcfg -sid 000187880566 -SA ALL list
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
budweiser root ~bin #>ps -ef | grep sym
root 20303 25124 0 16:07:37 ? 0:00 /usr/symcli/bin/symdev -sid 000187880566 show 0105
A command as simple as vxdisksetup is taking 15 minutes to run. However, if I remove/uninstall Solutions Enabler and run the same commands in Veritas they come back immediately. I want to leave Solutions Enabler installed but this is getting really old. Has anybody seen this behavior?
Solaris 10
Storage Foundations 4.1 MP1
Solutions Enabler 6.3
fox2_b90627
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February 13th, 2007 05:00
Stumped3
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February 13th, 2007 12:00
There is some hook between Veritas and Solutions Enabler. I think it may be the VRTSvail package that has common libraries. The commands vxdisksetup, vxassist, vxdg adddisk, vxvol, etc.; take 10-20 minutes to complete after installing Solutions Enabler. I uninstall Solutions Enabler and they finish in seconds as you would normally expect.
I use Solutions Enabler in scripts etc and I don't want to have to continue uninstalling it whenever I want to do any Veritas work.
JasonBailey
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February 13th, 2007 16:00
1) There is a particular SYMCLI / command which is hanging and needs to be investigated
2) Veritas is running unnessasary commands
Next step would be to call either support at EMC or Veritas. Maybe both
website
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April 1st, 2007 19:00
The ASL package is provided by Veritas as array support library.
You can get it from Veritas website and install in your host. It will be fine.