Veritas VxDMP

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Veritas VXDMP
What is Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)?
DMP is a method of providing two or more hardware paths to a single drive. For example, the physical hardware can have
at least two paths, such as c1t1d0 and c2t1d0, directing I/O to the same drive. VxVM arbitrarily selects one of the two
names and creates a single device entry, then transfers data across both paths to spread the I/O, DMP is enabled by default.
Volume Manager detects multipath systems with the Universal Worldwide Device Identifiers(WWD IDs) and manages
multipath targets, such as disk arrays, which define policies for using more than one path.
Benefits of DMP
High availability - DMP provides greater reliability through a path failover mechanism. In the event of a loss of one
connection to a disk, the system continues to access the critical data over the other sound connections until the failed
path is replaced.
Improved performance - DMP provides greater I/O throughput by balancing the I/O load uniformly across multiple
I/O paths to the disk device.
The disk paths can be in a active/active (use both paths) or active/passive state (use one path).
list controllers

vxdmpadm listctlr all

list enclosures

vxdmpadm listenclosure all

vxdmpadm listenclosure <enclosure>

Display Paths

vxdmpadm getsubpaths ctlr=fscsi2

vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=<dmp-device-name>

Who controls the path

vxdmpadm getdmpnode nodename=c3t2d0

vxdmpadm getdmpnode enclosure=<enclosure>

Controller (enable/disable)

vxdmpadm disable ctlr=<controller>

vxdmpadm enable ctlr=<controller>

Statistics

vxdmpadm iostat start

vxdmpadm iostat reset
vxdmpadm iostat show all
vxdmpadm getattr enclosure <enclosure> iopolicy
vxdmpadm setattr enclosure <enclosure> iopolicy=<policy>

I/O balancing & load

adaptive
priority
balanced (default)
round-robin
minimumq
single-active

vxdmpadm setattr path <path-name> pathtype=<path-type>

Path Type

1 of 1

active
nomanual
nopreffered
primary
secondary
standby

Displays the restore/error

daemon

vxdmpadm stat restored

vxdmpadm stat errord

Starts the restore daemon

vxdmpadm start restored

Stops the restore daemon

vxdmpadm stop restored

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