Article Number: 000171325
san policy=onlineall
Dell PowerPath and PowerPath/VE Family for Windows Version 6.0 Release Notes gives the disk online or offline behavior as the limitation of PowerPath:
In summary, a pseudo device shows as or comes offline after a physical disk is added and scanned from the host side and PowerPath takes control of it (already existing online disks come as online.)
DISKPART> san SAN Policy : Offline Shared Change it using.. DISKPART> san policy=OnlineAll DiskPart successfully changed the SAN policy for the current operating system. then list the disks using.. DISKPART> LIST DISK if any disk shows Offline, select that disk and clear the attributes. DISKPART> select disk Disk# Disk# is now the selected disk. DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY Disk attributes cleared successfully. DISKPART> attributes disk Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No DISKPART> ONLINE DISK DiskPart successfully onlined the selected disk.
11 Mar 2024
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