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Linux ALUA handler is not enabled

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Linux 6.10

Issue

ALUA is not functioning as per multipath -ll output
 
# cat /etc/oracle-release
Oracle Linux Server release 6.10
# cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=/dev/mapper/VGos-LVroot rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=VGos/LVroot rd_NO_MD crashkernel=auto KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 rd_NO_DM rdloaddriver=scsi_dh_alua
 
# multipath -ll
3600a09803831347657244e527766394e dm-5 NETAPP,LUN C-Mode
size=80G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
| |- 0:0:26:37 sdje 8:384   active ready running
| |- 0:0:25:37 sdik 135:64  active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled
|- 0:0:18:37 sdda 70:128  active ready running
|- 0:0:19:37 sddu 71:192  active ready running

 

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