Niggling SAN issues

Hardware:
2 x M5000 (both have exact same issue as described below)
Hitachi VSP Storage
Brocade Switches in between.
Storage has configured so we see 8 paths to each SAN Disk (which solved the PLOGI errors)
28 SAN Disks shared to each of the M5000's (to be able to move zones between each M5000 with minimal effort)
A SAN disk in use on one, is not in use on the other, obviously .
Software:
Solaris 11.2 (sparc)
Multipathing enabled to each disk
ZFS File systems.
5 zones/containers per
Issue:
I'm running Zabbix to graph the many kstat output. The one I'm having issues with is the "ssderr::::/Illegal Request/"
In zabbix I graph this data on this particular error:
kstat -c device_error -p "ssderr:::/Illegal Request/"
Each ssd has 8 paths.
Each ssd error "Illegal Request" count goes up hourly, about ~224 "Illegal Requests" every 60 minutes (all at once, over a minute or two time-frame), like an hourly cron job, but there's no correlating cron/smoking gun, on either server.
Is there some default background daemon that deals with SAN triggered events I'm overlooking? There is no cron in root or other that matches these errors.
dmesg is void of error messages since the PLOGI issue was resolved.
Has anyone come across this issue.
Rick
Edit: more info
28 San Disks, each with 8 paths (= 224)
On the 30 minute mark (224 "Illegal Request"), so something is checking each path, and I'm trying to determine what it is. I'm running all root crons while monitoring kstat in real time, all errors happen over 10 to 15 seconds time period. No cron correlates.

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The dell server is connected to the SAN . We have 2 instances on this same server. When we create a tablespace on one instance it takes twice as long as creating the tablespace on the 2nd instance. The tablespaces are created on the san.
At this point we have eliminated any hardware/ SAN issues. Since both databases are on the same server and hardware, connecting to the same lun on the san.
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If those are really the config paramters for your instances then you may have some serious configuration issues.
Instance 1
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Which are trying to use manual or automatic shared memory management?
2. SGA_TARGET is set to only 1 GB. Why so small?
Instance 2
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I would expect that once you have your instances configured properly you won't have the problem you reported.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/memory004.htm
About Automatic Shared Memory Management
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I am on an iMac 27 inch mid 2011, 3.4 GHz Intel core i7 with 16 GB of RAM
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How do we start this? Or will it only show if the arc1 process on the primary is sending files?
The arc1 process is showing at OS level on the primary but I'm wondering if its faulty somehow?
There are NO errors in the alert logs in the primary or the standby. There's not even the normal FAL gap sequence type error - in the standby it's just saying 'waiting for log' and a number from ages ago. It's like the primary isn't even talking to the standby. The listener is up and running ok though...
What else can we check/do?
If we manually copy across files and do an 'alter database register' then they are applied to the standby without issue; there's just no automatic log shipping going on...
Thanks
Ross

Hi all
Many thanks for all the responses.
The database is 10.2.0.2.0, on AIX 6.
I believe the password files are ok; we've had issues previously and this is always flagged in the alert log on the primary - not the case here.
Not set to DEFER on primary; log_archive_dest_2 is set to service="STBY_PHP" optional delay=720 reopen=30 and log_archive_dest_state_2 is set to ENABLE.
I ran those troubleshooting scripts, info from standby:
SQL> @troubleshoot
NAME DISPLAY_VALUE
db_file_name_convert
db_name PHP
db_unique_name PHP
dg_broker_config_file1 /oracle/PHP/102_64/dbs/dr1PHP.dat
dg_broker_config_file2 /oracle/PHP/102_64/dbs/dr2PHP.dat
dg_broker_start FALSE
fal_client STBY_PHP
fal_server PHP
local_listener
log_archive_config
log_archive_dest_2 service=STBY_PHP optional delay=30 reopen=30
log_archive_dest_state_2 DEFER
log_archive_max_processes 2
log_file_name_convert
remote_login_passwordfile EXCLUSIVE
standby_archive_dest /oracle/PHP/oraarch/PHParch
standby_file_management AUTO
NAME DB_UNIQUE_NAME PROTECTION_MODE DATABASE_R OPEN_MODE
PHP PHP MAXIMUM PERFORM PHYSICAL S MOUNTED
ANCE TANDBY
THREAD# MAX(SEQUENCE#)
1 100149
PROCESS STATUS THREAD# SEQUENCE#
ARCH CONNECTED 0 0
ARCH CONNECTED 0 0
MRP0 WAIT_FOR_LOG 1 100150
NAME VALUE UNIT TIME_COMPUTED
apply finish time day(2) to second(1) interval
apply lag day(2) to second(0) interval
estimated startup time 8 second
standby has been open N
transport lag day(2) to second(0) interval
NAME Size MB Used MB
0 0
On the primary, the script has froze!! How long should it take? Got as far as this:
SQL> @troubleshoot
NAME DISPLAY_VALUE
db_file_name_convert
db_name PHP
db_unique_name PHP
dg_broker_config_file1 /oracle/PHP/102_64/dbs/dr1PHP.dat
dg_broker_config_file2 /oracle/PHP/102_64/dbs/dr2PHP.dat
dg_broker_start FALSE
fal_client STBY_R1P
fal_server R1P
local_listener
log_archive_config
log_archive_dest_2 service="STBY_PHP" optional delay=720 reopen=30
log_archive_dest_state_2 ENABLE
log_archive_max_processes 2
log_file_name_convert
remote_login_passwordfile EXCLUSIVE
standby_archive_dest /oracle/PHP/oraarch/PHParch
standby_file_management AUTO
NAME DB_UNIQUE_NAME PROTECTION_MODE DATABASE_R OPEN_MODE SWITCHOVER_STATUS
PHP PHP MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE PRIMARY READ WRITE SESSIONS ACTIVE
THREAD# MAX(SEQUENCE#)
1 100206
NOW - before you say it - :) - yes, I'm aware that fal_client as STBY_R1P and fal_server as R1P are incorrect - should be PHP - but it looks like it's always been this way! Well, as least for the last 4 years where it's worked fine, as I found an old SP file and it still has R1P set in there...?!?
Any ideas?
Ross

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Backup is failing for only one database on the server.
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot open backup device 'F:\databasename_backup_2014_07_29.bak'.
Operating system error 5(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
** SAME DATABASE BACKUP IS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY ON OTHER DRIVE **
we have tried the below steps but still it is failed.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.3720.0 (X64) Apr 27 2012 13:51:37 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
1.checked for any spaces is th database name --No space
2.added service account to administrator .
3.provided full access to backup folder.
4.Compatibilty is 80 .
5.created backup devide to same location and tried still it got failed.
10 percent processed.
20 percent processed.
30 percent processed.
40 percent processed.
50 percent processed.
60 percent processed.
70 percent processed.
Msg 3202, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Write on "F:\Data\Backup\New_Backup_databasename.bak" failed: 665(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
6.Changed the database ower to service account,NO luck

Hi,
How big is database ? Does F drive has enough space on it. Issue does not seems with SQL Server backup it is with F drive or network connecting Server to drives.
Can you give more information about F drive is it a SAN, Local disk ?
If SQL server backup would have been issue it would have not processed uptill 70 % ( unles its bug). First error message with OS error 5 means access denied. Ater then you gave necessary rights and now backup issue is not due to SQL Server but while writing
to F drive some unusual thing is happeing which is causing backup to fail.Can you also involve SAN team as well.
** SAME DATABASE BACKUP IS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY ON OTHER DRIVE **
Does this mean backup of same database completes successfully on other drive if so it is a SAN issue or connection issue between SAN and server
Is SQL server 2008 updated to latest service pack ? Why do you use 80 compatibility mode. Although these questions are not realted to backup
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SQL 2012 AlwaysOn cluster IP not moving after failover, causing database to be read-only

SQL Server Cluster Name: SQLDAG01
SQL Server Cluster IP: 10.0.0.50
Cluster Listener IP: 10.0.0.60
Node 1 Name: SQL01
Node 1 IP: 10.0.0.51
Node 2 Name: SQL02
Node 2 IP: 10.0.0.52
Everything is fine when SQL01 is the primary. When failing over to SQL02, everything looks fine in the dashboard but for some reason the cluster IP, 10.0.0.50, is stuck on node 1. The databases are configured to provide secondary read access. When executing
a query on SQLDAG01, I get an error that the database is in read-only mode. Connectivity tests verify that SQLDAG01, 10.0.0.50, connects to SQL01 even though SQL02 is now the primary.
I've been Googling this for the better part of the day with no luck. Any suggestions? Is there a Powershell command force the cluster IP to move to the active node or something? Also I'm performing the failover as recommended, from Management Studio connected
to the secondary node.

This was the answer, it had been setup to use the cluster name instead of the application name. Whoever installed Sharepoint connected it to SBTSQLDAG01 instead of SHAREPOINT01. Once we changed Sharepoint to connect to SHAREPOINT01, the failover worked as
expected. We did have a secondary issue with the ARP cache and had to install the hotfix from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582281 to resolve it. One of the Sharepoint app servers was failing to
ping the SQL node after a failover, the ARP entry was stuck pointing to the previous node. This article actually helped a lot resolving that: http://blog.serverfault.com/2011/05/11/windows-2008-and-broken-arp/
One thing I did notice is that the SQL failover wizard does not move cluster groups "Available Storage" and "Cluster Group", I had to move those through the command line after using the wizard. I'm going to provide the client with a Powershell script that
moves all cluster groups when they need to do a manual failover. This also happens to be why the Sharepoint issue started, "Cluster Group" is what responds to the cluster name SBTSQLDAG01. Moving that group over to the node that has the active SQL cluster
group also made it work properly, but using the application name is the correct method.
Thanks everyone for all your help. Although the nitpicking about terminology really didn't help, that was a pointless argument and we really could have done without it. Yeah I know 2008 called is "Failover Cluster Manager" and MSCS is the "2003 term" but
really, they're basically the same thing and we don't really need to derail the conversation because of it. Also, If you look at the screenshot below you can clearly see "AlwaysOn High Availability" in SQL Management Studio. That's what it's called in SQL,
that's where you do all the work. Trying to tell me it's "not a feature" is wrong, pointless, and asinine, and doesn't get us anywhere.
Sorry it took so long to get back, I was off the project for a couple weeks while they were resolving some SAN issues that caused the failover to happen in the first place.

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