[Veritas-vx] Question over DMP partitionsize

2012-07-26 Thread phil . coleman
Hi, I'm trying to understand why one array has a wildly different partitionsize value to the other... fuj411:/root# vxdmpadm getattr arrayname IBM_SHARK partitionsize ENCLR_NAME DEFAULTCURRENT IBM_SHARK0 2048 2048

Re: [Veritas-vx] Question over DMP partitionsize

2012-07-26 Thread phil . coleman
Hi William, Thanks for the reply. Not sure how to get this track cach size? What's confusing me most here is that the values are so different between the two arrays. They're identical models set-up up the same and with the same number of disks allocated to the servers - sorry, forgot to

Re: [Veritas-vx] Question over DMP partitionsize

2012-07-26 Thread Terrie Douglas
DMP is most likely throttling things back due to an issue on a path: I/O throttling is a mechanism by which Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) temporarily stops issuing I/Os to paths that appear to be either overloaded or underperforming. There is a default I/O throttling mechanism in DMP based on the

Re: [Veritas-vx] Question over DMP partitionsize

2012-07-26 Thread William Havey
Phil, I don't believe any DMP values are changed by vxconfigd automatically. To be certain the partitionsize has not been manually changed, Is VxVM command line logging enabled? run vxcmdlog -l to find out If yes, look in /var/adm/vx/cmdlog for any vxdmpadm setattr commands. Do you use vea? If