10.7.2 Lion Server on xServe won't mount Fibre Channel Raid

We have the same issue. According to Infortrend they need to make a new firmware for them to work with Lion.

They don't know if they are going to do it or not.

Anyone know if this might be addressed by a future Lion update?

If apple gets enough people saying that they need this they will.

File a report the more people that do the more attention it gets.

https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/wa/signIn

I have the same problem - waiting for infortrend

I filed a bug w/ Apple as well - just for sh*ts and giggles. Hoping it's something stupid that maybe gets fixed in 10.7.3 but not holding my breath.

Also opened a case with Infortrends. Their response was not encouraging. For our G2430 they stated it was EOL so we shouldn't expect any additional updates or support for Lion.

I also have this issue! I have the A08F-G2422 8-bay which is still listed on the site as a current product! And the 16-bay version of which is not listed as a current product. I actually replaced my Atto HBA as I thought that was the problem. Nice.

Does anyone know what the "problem" is? This *****.

I just opened a support ticket with Apple. I hope they will have a fix for this. Will post more when I get an answer. Thanks Benjamin for putting me in the right direction.

- Jonathon

Just got off of support call with Apple. FYI my config is..

Mac Pro /8-Core/2.4ghz/westmere/48GB RAM

Atto 42ES (using port 1) driver v 3.47, config utility 4.01

Infortrend A08F-G2422 (using port A) not sure what FW is

2 boot HDD

1) Lion 10.7.2

2) SL 10.6.8

Under SL Infortrend mounts on desktop. Under Lion it does not mount. I am connected directly to the RAID. Under SL Atto must be set to Arbitrated Loop or it does not mount. This is direct attached storage... NO SWITCH.

Apple support advised:

- Point to Point

or

- Arbitrated Loop with Switch.

And, they can not advise me further as I am not using Apple RAID or HBA. So, I'm hunting down an Apple HBA and I'll throw a switch on in there. Hmmmm.....

I called Infortrend, but I'm having a problem getting a call back thus far.

Will test later this evening and post up results.

Well this is just weird....

Apple Support wrote me back asking for some log files, etc. for the bug report. I hadn't logged into the server with anything other than ssh for a few days. So, imagine my surprise when I log in and see two new un-initialized drives waiting for me on the desktop!? I did nothing to the server. No new software, no changes to config of either the array or the FC cards. But somehow, after just sitting around for a few days, my LUNS magically appeared.

I'm not gonna put anything important on them for awhile - Till I'm certain they'll stick around and not go poof.

But, this has to be at least somewhat encouraging for other InforTrends users out there (I think?)

Wow! Sascha,

Please let me know what HBA you are using and what the settings are?

1) HBA (apple, atto, etc)

2) Is it direct attached or via FC Switch

3) Settings of card... AL, PTP, etc.... on the Atto there is a config utility on the others I have no idea, but if you know that would be great!

Maybe if I just leave mine sitting there! But, I have a ton of data on mine.

thanks!

Xserve, Direct Attached to Infortrends A16F-G2430 via two diff HBAs (I had tried many combos... Both controllers in one, both in the other, split, etc. but here's how it was when I left it alone)

1 LSI7204EP

1 LSI7404EP

They are connected point-to-point. One controller to each HBA.

No settings on the cards other than "Automatic". Firmware 1.3.14.0 EFI 1.05.03.00 for both.

Firmware on the InforTrends EonStor is 3.73J.03.

I had applied that firmware to the Array - but that was a cpl weeks ago and I know they hadn't attached as of at least 2 days after that had been applied. So, sometime between 2 days after and ~2 wks after... the LUNs magically appeared.

I'm still a bit concerned that OS 10.7.X isn't officially supported by Infortrends... but it's better than not having my array visible at all.

OK... So the Apple Care support call was not that productive. They were very nice, however, they basically had no idea what I was talking about. I was generally asking about the difference in LUN handling from 10.6 to 10.7 and they gave me the canned response of "you are not using Apple Hardware so we can't really help you, we are really sorry...." This was after being transferred to the "Enterprise Storage Group" or something like that.

So in my travels I found a tech note from another apple list which basically explains what happened between 10.6 and 10.7.

I'm not "that hardcore" but some of you guys will really get what is going on here. I'm a bit of an IT neanderthal but what has changed as some here have pointed to is that in 10.7 the OS does its own FC multipathing.

Here is what Manjo Radhakrishnan from Apple said...

"10.7 does its own FC multipathing. This has changed from 10.6 which did target based multipathing ( based on WWNN ). On 10.7 this has changed to lun based multipathing ( based on the unique lun identifier in the device identification VPD page ).

If the target supports ALUA ( Asymmetric logical unit access ), the host will do IOs only to the target ports configured as "Active-Optimized" for a particular lun. If there is no ALUA support, all paths to a particular lun will be considered active-optimized and IOs will be done across all the paths.

Ideally if the target does not support ALUA, you should configure the luns such that a lun is visible only across the ports of one of the target controllers ( lun affinity ) to prevent lun thrashing."

So here is the link to the thread...

http://lists.apple.com/archives/ata-scsi-dev/2011/Jul/msg00001.html

If someone can translate this from smart-guy into dummy-end-user and tell me how to fix my infortrend boxes under 10.7 I'll buy you a bottle of really nice tequila (or several cases of yoohoo).

thanks!

Jonathon