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Is it safe to restart multipathd while volumes are being used
Forgive me if this is a completely idiotic question. Trying to reload an updated multipath.conf configuration to attach a new LUN and I need to restart multipathd. Is this a terrible idea if the ...
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How to install Ubuntu Server on SAN Storage with Multipath?
I have HP ProLiant BL35p blades and I want to install Ubuntu Server 12.x on them in order to do virtualization with OpenStack.
The storage is made of HP StorageWorks SAN, which is connected to the ...
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How to configure multipath using Intel X520-SR2 10GB on Oracle Linux 6.2?
I've installed the Intel x520-sr2 Ethernet/Fibre card into a server that has Oracle Linux 6.2 Installed on it. When I boot the server I can go into a QLogic menu (screen has something for Intel on ...
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How to get multipath working for Ubuntu Server 12.04
I'm working on a project which aims to make use of Ubuntu servers running on enterprise class hardware. In our case that means IBM HS23E blade servers, QLogic 4GB fibre channel extension cards and ...
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Restarting iscsid on XenServer - will it lose the volume?
I need to adjust some iscsi timeout options in the iscsid.conf (XenServer 6.0.2), but i need to achieve this without loosing the iscsi connection / the volume (so the Virtual machines don't go ...
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Howo to get Multipath IO with Dell MD3600i into active/active setup?
I'm desperately trying to improve performance of my SAN connection.
Here's what i have:
[root@xnode1 dell]# multipath -ll
mpath1 (36d4ae520009bd7cc0000030e4fe8230b) dm-2 DELL,MD36xxi
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How to best tune Dell PowerVault MD3600i SAN/Initiators for best performance?
Recent owner of a Dell PowerVault MD3600i i'm experiencing some weird results.
I have a dedicated 24x 10GbE Switch (PowerConnect 8024), setup to jumbo frames 9K.
The MD3600 has 2 RAID controllers, ...
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How to block some disks from probes on Linux boot?
My linux host connected to SAN with FC interface.
It connect with one path, and see some luns, that can't access, because they need anohter path, not available to host.
On boot linux probe all lun ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
