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Add Multipath to Existing Storage - Ubuntu Server
I have an existing Fiber Channel Storage Array - SGI TP9300 (its an LSI product) it's all set up with LUNS and I have a LVM managing it with two Ubuntu 10.04 servers accessing the array. The Servers ...
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why does my lvm2 volume group only work with multipath device mapper and not powerpath
my server is Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL5) on an hp blade (x64) with qlogic HBAs connected to an EMC clariion SAN.
we are migrating from multipath to powerpath because emc and the company ...
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vSphere 5/Dell MD3000i multipathing configuration clarification
Revisiting an older vSphere setup with two Dell 1950s, 4 NICs per host:
esxi1 and esxi2 for simplicity sake.
SAN is a Dell MD3000i, two controllers, two NICs per controller:
rc00 and rc01; rc10 ...
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iSCSI aggregation using one switch
Thinking of doing 2Gb aggregated iSCSI between a VM Host and a multi controller iSCSI array. Multipath with two switches is normal for this, but I only have one switch at the moment. But the switch is ...
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multipath storage changes not see between 2 servers with ntfs-3g
I have installed centos 6.2 as virtual host with KVM on servers. Each is connected via SCSI cabling to a HP-MSA500-G2. I've mounted the storage box via multipathd on box machines and both machines can ...
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Can i pause VM's while power-cycling iscsi storage array
Unfortunately I may have to power-cycle my storage array.
In the context of using KVM with libvirt managing the Virtual Machines where i need to power-cycle the storage array, is it possible or even ...
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Linux Multipath - Can a Host connect to two different SANs?
I may need to power-cycle a SAN and i'm looking to avoid downtime. I have some options to essentially copy live LUNs from one SAN to another. Currently i have a single iSCSI SAN and i connect to it ...
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linux multipath - change device alias safely
I'm running RHEL 5.2 connected to a NetApp over FC. The server is running a database on mpathNN devices that can not be stopped. I need to add a new LUN and give it a specific alias (rather than ...
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Dell PowerVault MD3200i dm-multipath configuration and performance snags in Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
I'll be using this iSCSI target for a couple of Debian-based KVM virtual machine hosts. Each of the target's redundant controllers has 4 ethernet ports; likewise for the initiators. I use two switches ...
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FC multipath says “device busy ” when connecting again. SLES 11 - netapp - emulex
I have a weird issue.
sles 11
emulex FC
netapp fas 2xxx
100G LUN is ok.
Multipath enabled, multipathd and device-mapper seem to work properly.
multipath -t shows this output of the config => ...
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Linux NIC bonding on top of vlan interfaces?
Is it possible to set up bonding(active/backup) on top of existing vlan interfaces ?
Assume the following scenario:
Linux Server with 2 NICs connected to separate switches
iSCSI initiator + MPIO to ...
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how to change path for partition in multipath device [closed]
i have multipath device /dev/dm-2
# multipath -l
mpath0 (3600c0ff00012bb4eed6bd34e01000000) dm-2 HP,P2000 G3 FC
[size=4.4T][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
\_ 3:0:0:0 ...
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Implications of 100% utilization on dm device
We have a RHEL 5.6 server here with 4 active paths to a single LUN. We suspect that it's not able to cram enough IOs down the pipeline to the XIV on the other end:
mpath0 (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) dm-9 ...
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MultiPath configuration on RHEL5 and Clariion CX-300
I have problem with discovering my FC-connected CX-300 storage. Frankly speaking I'm complete novice in FibreChannel, so step by step explanation would be appreciated. My configuration consist of two ...
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Is it possible to multipath across FC and iSCSI?
Perhaps a silly question this one, but I was wondering if it were possible to multipath a storage array across a FC connection and an iSCSI connection? Given that the main point of multipathing seems ...
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Linux Multipath + SAS Array, “device errors” are logged to dmesg for passive paths? Possible to stop this?
I have two OpenSuSE 11.4 hosts connected to an LSI CTS2600 storage array via SAS. Every time I reboot the hosts, I see in dmesg output like
[ 255.942890] end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector ...
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Linux-HA + dm-multipath: path removal causes segfault, kernel null pointer dereference, and STONITH
well I am setting up a Linux-HA cluster running
*pacemaker-1.1.5
*openais-1.1.4
*multipath-tools-0.4.9
*OpenSuSE 11.4, kernel 2.6.37
Cluster configuration passed healthcheck by LinBit, so I'm ...
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Linux / Multipath not using all paths, and won't use queue-length path_selector?
I have the following hardware:
2x SuperMicro servers (128GB RAM, 2x 8 core AMDs)
2x/server LSI SAS2008 PCIe MPT-Fusion2 HBAs (2 SAS ports per card)
1x LSI CTS2600 DAS with 24x W.D. 15.7k RPM 600GB ...
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Multipath only sees 2.0T of 4.8T [closed]
I use multipath on 64Bit Ubuntu. If I do multipath -ll it finds my devices, but reports them as 2.0TB instead of the 4.8T they should be. Any idea why this is the case?
Example output:
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Multipathd load balancing on md3200i
I'm working on setting up a cluster of servers with an iSCSI MD3200i SAN for shared storage. Everything is working well but I have one small detail I can't seem to get working. Multipath seems to only ...
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Home-grown SAN — topology ideas?
I'm interested in hand-rolling a SAN solution on Linux with the following technologies:
iscsi
mdadm raid
lvm
multipath
xfs/gfs/???
teamed NICs
Hardware-wise, I'm thinking of 2 x gigE (or better) ...
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/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-* links pointing to sdX instead of multipath device
We have two similar SLES10SP2 servers both using multipath on the same devices
from the same storage array.
On one server, the /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-* devices properly point at the
multipath devices:
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How to enable multipath I/O for NFS-backed VMware ESXi storage?
Right now I have 3 VMware ESXi hosts using 4Gb fibre channel to our NetApp for storage. I'd like to switch to NFS over 10Gb ethernet.
Each ESXi server has two 10Gb ethernet ports and each controller ...
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Good NFS multipath solution
I have a couple of servers serving exactly the same content through NFS to several webfarms, all the servers involved are running CentOS 5
The content between both NFS servers is replicated using ...
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is multipath -F safe? (flush all unused paths)
from multipath manpage:
-F flush all unused multipath device maps
is this a safe operation? I have a bunch of old dead paths and would like to clear them out, but want to make sure it's ...
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RDAC MPP driver erratic path fail-over errors
In my central syslog I can see a some instances ofo the following error from LSI's RDAC multi-pathing driver for Linux.
[RAIDarray.mpp]MY_NICE_STORAGE_ARRAY:1:0:7 Cmnd-failed try alt ctrl 0. vcmnd SN ...
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How to dismount SAN device - multipath on Ubuntu
I have to disconnect SAN connected thru FibreChannel to Ubuntu. How can i do this?
root@fs2:/# umount /srv/media
umount: /srv/media: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes ...
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lpfc + multipath + ubuntu - path keeps switching
I am having issues configuring multipath using Emulex (lpfc). Although I do not detect data corruption the SAN administrator has a tool that shows that the paths are being switched every 20 seconds or ...
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LVM issues when adding a newly-carved LUN from a Clariion - pvcreate fails
This seems to be a semi-common issue asked, but I have not yet found a good solution.
I try the following:
[root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdc
Can't open /dev/sdc exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
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Why is my MPIO connection to the SAN capped at 1 Gbps when using Linux?
I'm connecting a RHEL5 box to a Dell EqualLogic PS5000X and seeing a maximum of 1 Gbps even while using MPIO with three gigabit NICs.
I have all three interfaces on the PS5000X and three dedicated ...
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Same hard disk reported twice in Red Hat (SAN and multipath)
I use two Q-Logic HBA's on one server which have access to the same LUN. Red Hat (and gparted also) sees the LUN as two seperate disks (sda, sdb). Is this normal?
Thanks!
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Adding multipath to server and change lvm to use new devices
Hi
I have a server running RHEL5 (HP Proliant DL365) connected to a EVA. LVM is used for the SAN disks like this
/dev/sdav VolGroup09 lvm2 a- 150.00G 90.00G
/dev/sdbi VolGroup08 ...
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What is the least expensive way to obtain 1,000s of public IP addresses?
What is the least expensive way to obtain 1,000s of public IP addresses?
I'm needing to serve secure (https) pages for 1,000s of SSL certificates, and need a separate IP address for each SSL cert.
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Improving SAS multipath to JBOD performance on Linux
I'm trying to optimize a storage setup on some Sun hardware with Linux. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
We have the following hardware:
Sun Blade X6270
2* LSISAS1068E SAS controllers
2* ...
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Debian and Multipath IO problem
Basically the situation is, I have a box running Debian, the box internally has an Intel SCSI RAID controller which is controlling 2 hard drives in RAID1 mode which is where the OS is installed.
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How do you “fix” a faulty path in device-mapper-multipath
I have a multipath config that was working but now shows a "faulty" path:
[root@nas ~]# multipath -ll
sdd: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down"
mpath1 ...
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Adding 60TB Storage to an SLES 10 Server
I have to add some archive\staging storage to an SLES 10 Server. The requirement is to present fairly large volumes (9-20TB each approx, 60TB or so in total) that will be used to store archive data ...
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Solaris Multipathed I/O - Physically Removing a Disk
I am a Solaris newbie. I have a Solaris 10u8 machine that is running an attached J4400 and some internal drives. We're using multipathed SAS I/O (stmsboot; mpathadm), so the device mount points have ...
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EMC PowerPath or MultiPath?
We are using a SAN for our datastorage. I recently got the SAN connected to a CentOS 5.3 server by using the EMC PowerPath software along with the Navisphere Agent running on CentOS. However I have ...
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When is storage considered highly-available?
I've read in several places people describing the following configuration as Highly Available:
2 servers (sometimes with multiple HBAs) each connected via multiple SAS cables to one RAID enclosure ...
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Merit and demerits for various Linux fiberchannel multipath options
On our Linux servers, we currently use HPs qla2xxx drivers, because it has multipathing (active/passive) built in.
The are, however, various other options, like Red Hats device-mapper-multipath with ...
