Hot-Adding SAN lun to Linux (RH with Qlogic drivers)

cat /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/$Z” where Z represents the SCSI interface the Qlogic has taken for itself, you’ll get something like this:

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SCSI LUN Information:
(Id:Lun) * – indicates lun is not registered with the OS.
( 0: 0): Total reqs 63185608, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x2, 0:0:81 00

Assuming you’ve just added the next LUN, in our case, LUN1, after reboot you would get an additional line below such as:

( 0: 1): Total reqs 1923, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x2, 0:0:81 00

However, on a production server we want to add this line without a reboot.

To achieve this goal, we need to run the following command:

“echo “scsi-qlascan” > /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/$Z” where $Z represents, like before, the SCSI interface.

Then you get the additional line(s) in the file. Now you should help your Linux see them (and attach a module to them). You can do it by using the following convention (taken from here): Using “dmesg“.

you can obtain the required details for the next stage: Controller, Channel, Target and LUN. Example:

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
Vendor: IBM Model: 1742 Rev: 0520
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03

Obtain the following details:

Controller=2 (scsi2)

Channel=0 (Channel: 00)

Target=0 (Id: 00)

LUN=1 (Lun: 01)

We will ask Linux nicely to reattach the device. Replace the descriptors with the numeric values

“echo “scsi add-single-device Controller Channel Target LUN” > /proc/scsi/scsi”

In our example: “echo “scsi add-single-device 2 0 0 1” > /proc/scsi/scsi”

To remove a device prior to unmapping it from the SAN, replace add-single-device with “remove-single-device”.

This post’s Qlogic discovery was the insight of a friend of mine, and the credit is his 🙂