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Adao,

You might be able to do something clever with LVM Mirroring; ie. mirror your 
root VG logical volumes to a multipath device, then un-mirror them from the 
single-path device.
Not sure what you do with /boot, though, should work to copy the partition..
You’ll need to make the appropriate configuration changes as well (/etc/fstab 
for instance).
You might also need to do something with multipath and the initial RAM Disk to 
make sure that the boot and root partitions/volumes can be recognised and 
understood at boot time, as well.

To be fair, though, this doesn’t sound like a Poweredge-specific issue, and you 
should probably engage your OS vendor support organisation for this.

Cheers,
dave


From: Linux-PowerEdge <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adão Feliz
Sent: 23 February 2019 10:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] Help - How do I convert a single path boot from SAN 
system to multipath?


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Hello,

Our servers have multiple HBAs. We now have multipath storage available and 
would like to reconfigure the system to take advantage of the additional paths. 
How can this be done?

The system was configured to boot from SAN, we don’t have disks on the servers. 
During OS installation root lvm/filesystem were created using sub paths: 
/dev/sdxx

Is it possible to migrate from single path /dev/sdxx to device-mapper-multipath 
devices viz. /dev/mapper/mpathX after OS installation??

$ lvs_-a_-o_devices
  LV          VG     Attr   LSize      Devices
  LogVol00    rootvg -wi-ao   6.00G    /dev/sdbt2(0)                     <--- 
root lvm volume created using underlying sub path
  LogVol01    rootvg -wi-ao  10.00G    /dev/sdbt2(352)
  LogVol02    rootvg -wi-ao   5.00G    /dev/sdbt2(674)

Thanks,
AF

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