>>> On 2/4/2019 at 11:37 AM, "Will, Chris" <cw...@bcbsm.com> wrote: 
> We have auto lun scan turned on for our SLES 11 SP4 hosts and it is on by 
> default for our SLES 12 SP3 hosts.  We are trying to insert a Cirrus device 
> which has the capability to discover LUNs and NPIV WWNs.  My very limited 
> understanding of the process, during the initial boot process (z/VM IPL) it 
> initially will report back no LUNs to the guest, logs into the storage device 
> and then reports back to the guest with the LUNs that are masked for the NPIV 

Man, what a horrible hardware design.

> WWPN.  This does not seem to give the SLES 12 guests issues but most of the 
> SLES 11 guests have issues.  Is there anyway for the guest to do a retry, 
> otherwise it ends up in emergency repair mode (setting we have in fstab).

If you have the sg3_utils package installed, and the disks necessary for /usr 
to get mounted are available, you can use the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script.  If 
/usr isn't able to be mounted, then you can try to do manually what the script 
does.


Mark Post

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