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Unable to remove SAN LUNs from Solaris 10

920934May 18 2012 — edited Jul 10 2012
Hi All,

I'm trying to remove LUNs from Solaris 10 box. After LUNs are properly removed from veritas volume manager and uninitialized I tried to remove it from the system by cfgadm. However I ended with the following error for every LUN ( same with -o force_update ) :

# cfgadm -o force_update -c unconfigure c1::50001fe1500cb5a9
cfgadm: Library error: remove operation failed: /devices/pci@2,600000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/array-controller@w50001fe1500cb5a9,0: No such device or address
#

# cfgadm -o force_update -c unconfigure c1::50001fe1500cb5a9
cfgadm: Library error: remove operation failed: /devices/pci@2,600000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/array-controller@w50001fe1500cb5a9,0: No such device or address
#

From dmesg I can see following:

scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info] /pci@2,600000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 (fcp2):
ndi_devi_online: failed for array-controller: target=289e00 lun=0 ffffffff
scsi: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@2,600000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0 (fcp2):
Failed to create nodes for pwwn=50001fe1500cb5a9; error=5


Our HBA Cards:

# fcinfo hba-port
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c980ecaf
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c1
Manufacturer: Emulex
Model: LPe11000-S
Firmware Version: 2.82a4 (Z3D2.82A4)
FCode/BIOS Version: Boot:5.02a1 Fcode:1.50a9
Serial Number: 0999VM0-0846000NXK
Driver Name: emlxs
Driver Version: 2.60k (2011.03.24.16.45)
Type: N-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb
Current Speed: 4Gb
Node WWN: 20000000c980ecaf
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c981d2f0
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c2
Manufacturer: Emulex
Model: LPe11000-S
Firmware Version: 2.82a4 (Z3D2.82A4)
FCode/BIOS Version: Boot:5.02a1 Fcode:1.50a9
Serial Number: 0999VM0-0846000NQ1
Driver Name: emlxs
Driver Version: 2.60k (2011.03.24.16.45)
Type: N-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb
Current Speed: 4Gb
Node WWN: 20000000c981d2f0
#

We using EVA8000/8001 storage

Any idea why those LUNs cannot be removed? Btw I already tried also luxadm -e offline <every LUN> to get it to the unusable status but with "cfgadm -c unconfigure -o unusable_SCSI_LUN" I got every time the same error.

Thanks for help.
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