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InfoScale™ 9.0 Dynamic Multi-Pathing Administrator's Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-09-09

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Displaying the paths to a disk

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

Use the vxdisk path command to display the relationships between the device paths, disk access names, disk media names, and disk groups on a system as shown here:
```
# 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

Use the following command:
```
# 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.

Alternately, you can use the following command to view multi-pathing information:

# 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      -