Unable to bind volumes/devices in MS ISCSI when using powerpath

Question

Hi,

I am not able to bind volumes in the MS ISCSI initiator when powerpath 5.1 is installed.

When I try to bind a volume it says is does not originate from an ISCSI disk or a persistent ISCSI login. My paths are set up as persistent.

This error does not appear when we dont have PP installed.

Update: Have downgraded to 4.6 and we can bind volumes under ISCSI initiator but now PP does not show show us any thing at all.

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AllBlack

Conor · Answer

From emc147384:This issue is not seen in PowerPath version 4.6.x. To workaround this issue, you can uninstall the current version of PowerPath and install 4.6.x, or you can do the following to make this work with currently installed version of PowerPath:1. Log out of all but one connection to the array.2. In the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, remove the persistent targets for all but the connection in step 13. Uninstall PowerPath and reboot4. Upon reboot, open the Microsoft iSCSI initiator and bind all volumes. This should successfully bind all volumes5. Re-install PowerPath and reboot6. Apply the registry settings to the EMCpowsrv service per emc124529

AllBlack · Answer

Seems to work fine on another server now. I have used iscsi iniator 2.05 and PP 4.6.0 and have all the service dependencies in place..cheers

AllBlack · Answer

Hi, I can't seem to get access to emc emc124529Anyway, Your solution seems to me that it might be something that needs to be repeated everytime a volume has been added and not a permanent fix?cheers

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Unable to bind volumes/devices in MS ISCSI when using powerpath

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