The vxdisk command is used to display the multi-pathing information for a particular metadevice. The metadevice is a device representation of a physical disk having multiple physical paths through the system's HBA controllers. In Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP,) all the physical disks in the system are represented as metadevices with one or more physical paths.
To display the multi-pathing information on a system
# vxdisk path
SUBPATH DANAME DMNAME GROUP STATE c1t0d0s2 c1t0d0s2 mydg01 mydg ENABLED c4t0d0s2 c1t0d0s2 mydg01 mydg ENABLED c1t1d0s2 c1t1d0s2 mydg02 mydg ENABLED c4t1d0s2 c1t1d0s2 mydg02 mydg ENABLED . . .
This shows that two paths exist to each of the two disks, mydg01 and mydg02, and also indicates that each disk is in the ENABLED state.
To view multi-pathing information for a particular metadevice
# vxdisk list devicename
For example, to view multi-pathing information for c2t0d0s2, use the following command:
# vxdisk list c2t0d0s2
The output from the vxdisk list command displays the multi-pathing information, as shown in the following example:
Device c2t0d0 devicetag c2t0d0 type sliced hostid sys1 . . . Multipathing information: numpaths: 2 c2t0d0s2 state=enabled type=primary c1t0d0s2 state=disabled type=secondary
The numpaths line shows that there are 2 paths to the device. The next two lines in the "Multipathing information" section of the output show that one path is active (state=enabled) and that the other path has failed (state=disabled).
The type field is shown for disks on Active/Passive type disk arrays such as the EMC CLARiiON, Hitachi HDS 9200 and 9500, Sun StorEdge 6xxx, and Sun StorEdge T3 array. This field indicates the primary and secondary paths to the disk.
The type field is not displayed for disks on Active/Active type disk arrays such as the EMC Symmetrix, Hitachi HDS 99xx and Sun StorEdge 99xx Series, and IBM ESS Series. Such arrays have no concept of primary and secondary paths.
# vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=devicename
For example, to view multi-pathing information for eva4k6k0_6, use the following command:
# vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=eva4k6k0_6
Typical output from the vxdmpadm getsubpaths command is as follows:
NAME STATE[A] PATH-TYPE[M] CTLR-NAME ENCLR-TYPE ENCLR-NAME ATTRS ====================================================================================== c0t50001FE1500A8F08d7s2 ENABLED(A) PRIMARY c0 EVA4K6K eva4k6k0 - c0t50001FE1500A8F09d7s2 ENABLED(A) PRIMARY c0 EVA4K6K eva4k6k0 - c0t50001FE1500A8F0Cd7s2 ENABLED SECONDARY c0 EVA4K6K eva4k6k0 - c0t50001FE1500A8F0Dd7s2 ENABLED SECONDARY c0 EVA4K6K eva4k6k0 -