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Max Luns To FA in EMC Vmax
Max Luns To FA in EMC Vmax
Goal
Issue
Error msg (when applying change on Volume Map screen of SymmWin at 5670 and 5671) :
400022B6: The director SA/FA xxy has 'zzzz' devices assigned to it, the maximum allowed is
2048.
Error msg (when applying change on Volume Map screen of SymmWin at 577, 5772 , 5773,5874,
5875 & 5876) :
400022B6: The director FA/SE xxy has zzzz devices assigned to it. The maximum allowed is
4096. Note: Meta members are counted for this restriction.
Environment
Enginuity: 5874
Enginuity: 5875
Enginuity: 5876
EMC SW: Solutions Enabler SYMCLI Configuration Manager
Cause
Resolution
The ONLY way to workaround this Enginuity restriction is to split up the addresses and assign
them to different SA or FA or SE ports (i.e. to ensure that the logical volume limit per processor is
not reached).
Also refer to solution [Link Error:UrlName "6-0-12847443-2042745-Maximum-devices-toconfigure-on-an-FA-port" not found]
Notes
NOTE also that there is a bug in 5x67 which can give the INCORRECT count for the above
values. When SymmWin is calculating the total number of volumes it does not count the meta
members if the meta head started at Symm Vol 000. This particular bug had led to the incorrect
belief that LUN's are being counted when meta's are being created or added and that the
SymmWin check is for "too many LUN's". This is not the case. Refer to solution 26148 for full
details on this specific problem.
Refer to 12857 for "What is the maximum number of accessible logical devices per Symmetrix
DMX or VMAX array?"
Attachments
Article Metadata
Product
Requested
Publish Date
Primus/Webtop
solution ID
External
Source
Symmetrix, Symmetrix DMX Series, Symmetrix VMAX Series, Symmetrix Enginuity 5568,
Symmetrix Enginuity 5773, Symmetrix Enginuity 5874, Symmetrix Enginuity 5669, Solutions
Enabler, Symmetrix Enginuity 5670, Symmetrix Enginuity 5671, Symmetrix Enginuity 5771,
Symmetrix DMX-3, Symmetrix Enginuity 5772, Symmetrix DMX-4, Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX
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5/25/2013 12:19 PM
emc67373
Primus
Audience
Issue
Level 30 = Customers
symcfg list -address -available showing different number of available addresses on each
port.
Error in Symapi.log:
EMC:SYMCONFIGURE
cfgSwValidate
SID 00019010xxxx: config server
msg: 0x400022b6: The director FA/SE 08b has 4160 devices assigned to it The
maximum allowed is 4096.
VALIDATE failure: Too many devices are mapped to front end director. Check the symapi
log file
Environment
Cause
Resolution
Notes
When the -p value is specified, Solutions Enabler only looks at the mappings on this port
without cross-referencing the devices mapped to the other port on the FA, so the display is
only accurate from that port's point of view. This behavior is by design for Solutions
Enabler 7.0 or later.
To accurately view the number of available addresses for the FA ports, the symcfg list address -available command should be used without specifying a port value.
If a device is mapped to both port 0 and port 1, this only counts as a single mapped
device. In Solutions Enabler 6.5 and earlier, this could cause the symcfg list -address available to report a negative number of available LUN addresses. Refer to KB
article 46617 for more information.
For example, looking at Port 0:
C:\>symcfg list -fa 8b -p 0 -address -available
Symmetrix ID: 00019010xxxx
Director
Device Name
Attr
Address
---------------------- ----------------------------- ---- ------------Ident
Symbolic Port Sym
Physical
VBUS TID LUN
------ -------- ---- ---- ---------------------------- ---
0
0
FA-8B
08B
00 000
00 032 *
Total
Mapped Devices:
0042
Not Visible
AVAILABLE
---32
VCM
Including Metamembers:
67
Available Addresses:
4029 (s)
Looking at Port 1:
C:\>symcfg list -fa 8b -p 1 -address -available
Symmetrix ID: 00019010xxxx
Director
Device Name
Attr
Address
---------------------- ----------------------------- ---- ------------Ident
Symbolic Port Sym
Physical
VBUS TID LUN
------ -------- ---- ---- ---------------------------- ---
0
0
FA-8B
08B
00 000
0042
Not Visible
VCM
AVAILABLE
00 04C *
Total
---Mapped Devices:
42
Including Metamembers: 451
Available Addresses:
3645 (s)
To accurately see the number of available addresses, issue the command without
specifying a port value:
C:\>symcfg list -fa 8b -address -available
Symmetrix ID: 00019010xxxx
Director
Device Name
Attr
Address
---------------------- ----------------------------- ---- ------------Ident
Symbolic Port Sym
Physical
VBUS TID LUN
------ -------- ---- ---- ---------------------------- ---
0
0
FA-8B
08B
00 000
0042
Not Visible
VCM
AVAILABLE
00 032 *
Total
---Mapped Devices:
32
Including Metamembers:
67
Available Addresses:
3579 (s)
Director
Address
Device Name
Attr
0
0
FA-8B
08B
00 000
Article Metadata
Requested
Publish Date
0042
Not Visible
AVAILABLE
00 04C *
Total
---Mapped Devices:
42
Including Metamembers: 451
Available Addresses:
3579 (s)
Attachments
Product
Solutions Enabler
5/25/2013 4:34 PM
Primus/Webtop
solution ID
emc235767
External Source
Primus
VCM