Questions tagged [multipath]
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ZFS and SAN: issue with data scrubbing
Working as scientists in a corporate environment, we are provided with storage resources from a SAN within an Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine (Proxmox). The SAN controller is passed directly to the VM (...
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I want to reset a FC_HOST before the multipath tries to mount paths from it
I have an HPE SN1100Q 2port 16G HBA card on my hpe proliant gen10 server which is connected to HPE 3par storage direct attach. And some wierd stuff happening. Im using qla2xxx driver version 10.01.00....
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Multipath routing on centos adding the second route breaks the first
I have a Centos box with 2 interfaces that have routes to the internet. One 192.168.1.254, the other 192.168.133.11. I can route through 133.11 perfectly OK when it is the only route specified. When I ...
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IPv6 multipath routing with configurable weight
With Linux kernel 4.14, when I add IPv6 multipath routes with weights (10 & 30), they are getting added with same weight '1'. IPv4 route does not have this issue.
I checked with exact same steps ...
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How to get iSCSI multipath work on Windows 10 , should I do any adjustment in linux server side?
I have 8x18TB Raid10 mdadm volume on Ubuntu server. When I connect from Windows iSCSI speeds 220MB/sec read 375MB/sec write. I guess it is a iSCSI protocol bottleneck could not improve it. It leaves ...
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Using VirtualBox, can I assign per-VM VPN connections/profiles, specifically in order to use different VPNs on different VMs?
I'd like to run two VMs at the same time on the same host, with each VM connected to a different VPN connection. The host OS in question is Ubuntu, but if there is another OS which would do the job, ...
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CentOS Multipath using SAS Disks and Multiple Hosts
===========System Design===========
Server A --> 2 PCI LSI HBA Cards
Server B --> 2 PCI LSI HBA Cards
8 x SAS Disk Shelf --> Dual SAS Controller 12 Slot Disk Shelf
96 Disks all SAS Seagate ...
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Fibre channel multipath
I have a server with two FC adapters connected to Sun 6140 (IBM DS4700) array. One adapter (1) is connected to Cisco MDS switch and that switch connected to both array controllers. Second adapter (2) ...
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How to configure linux routing to enable load balance between two interfaces?
I have these interfaces on my linux machine : eth0, vti1 and vti2.
vti1 and vti2 were added after I configured libreswan IPSec.
Now I want to distribute traffic through both these interfaces equally. ...
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Multipath in linux for 2 replicated storage devices
We are trying to have an HA multipath were from 1 server (linux fedoraOS), we connect to 2 different storage devices (HP3Par) that are syncronously replicated. Our idea is that in case one of them ...
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"Bad message" with a new SAN using multipath and iSCSI
I'm configuring a new SAN for a set of Ubuntu 18.04-based servers. Each of nodes can mount the ext4 formatted partition fine.
Being new to both multipath and iSCSI, I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is ...
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What are the best practices for device-mapper multipath?
Background: We are setting up the new storage for an HPC Compute cluster for applied statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics. Contrary to our expectations, an active-active configuration did not ...
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Why does active-active configuration degrade performance compared to failover?
We are setting up the new storage for an HPC compute cluster that we are managing for applied statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics.
Configuration
We have the main enclosure with a Dell EMC ME4084 (...
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Should I bond iSCSI network connections?
I'm setting up some iSCSI storage (Lenovo) along with a physical server running RHEL7.
The server has 2 NICs for the main LAN (bonded) and 2 NICs for the iSCSI network. The Lenovo storage has 4 ports ...
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How do I specify a preferred source address for IPv6 multihome clients?
My ISP provides an IPv6 prefix delegation but with a dynamic prefix. I want a publicly routed static prefix for some local services, so I also have a Hurricane Electric tunnel set up, which means ...
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DM multipath along with local disk
I have one /storage partition which is created from /dev/sdc local disk which is in LVM, now i want to extend it. we have 1 disk free which is a multipath disk over iscsi.
can i add this disk in the ...
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Scsi Path is failing
I am very new to multipathing concept. I am trying to troubleshoot an issue with multipathing however, I am not sure if it's an issue with multipath configuration.
Server is connected to storage over ...
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iSCSI Multipath to block device on zfs pool in ubuntu
I have succesfuly set up zfs pool, created block on it , and created iscsi target. The target is visible from esx host and i can us it as datastore.
steps i did:
zpool create tank raidz2 sdb sdc ...
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Multipath routing with linux kernel 4.19
I have the following two devices tun-1 and tun-2. They have the same ip address 21.2.0.3 and the same gateway 21.2.0.1 (each gateway points to a different device/VM, they just happen to have the same ...
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Linux multipath: How to configure a single multibus path group
I have just upgraded a functional Ubuntu 16.04 host to 18.04 and am now having issues with multipath.
Package versions:
* multipath-tools 0.7.4-2ubuntu3
* open-iscsi 2.0.874-5ubuntu2.7
I have a Dell ...
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centos multipath /dev/mapper dont map partitions
On SERVER1 I have the following output of dmsetup info -C:
Name Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event UUID
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Formatting/creating file system on multipath volume for ZFS on Linux?
I inherited a ZFS on Linux (CentOS) storage pool and I have a faulty multipath device (mpathah) in my pool:
raidz3-6 DEGRADED 0 0 0
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mpathba ONLINE ...
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Multipathing on VMware ESXi is missing
I'm trying to configure a storage multipathing on VMware web client.
I'm running the version 6.5.0, build 6765664.
The problem is that on my storage section I can't find the option about multipathing.
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RedHat: MultipathPackage Compatibility
I have an old RedHat5 server I can't upgrade the OS and new san XtremeI/O storage EMC recommended to install device-mapper-multipath 0.4.9-72 as a native multipath package.But the only available ...
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Centos 7 - install and mount fc multipath disks
I tried to install multipathing on a Centos 7.5 host following some links like
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/dm_multipath/mpio_components
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How to rescan missing multipathd paths?
I have multipath configured in ubuntu 14 server but strangely the number of path available for each device is different where the 5TB disk have 4 path and 4TB have 3 path. I have reloaded the ...
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Why multipath devnode change after reboot?
As I command multipath -ll, the output show like this.
ocr3 (149455400000000000000000001000000ca0200000d000000) dm-9 IET,VIRTUAL-DISK
[size=980M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][...
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How to modify the "dm-*" value?
As I command multipath -ll, the output show like this.
ocr3 (149455400000000000000000001000000ca0200000d000000) dm-9 IET,VIRTUAL-DISK
[size=980M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][...
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resizing partition using multipathd
redhat 6.3 with a multipath xfs partition.
i have already increased the LUN and need to reflect the increase in the filesystem. using xfs_growfs will not work yet unless i increased the partition ...
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How to fine-tune iscsi-multipath queueing timeout?
I'm tuning the configuration for a multipath iscsi on a Centos 6 server.
At the moment I'm using the following parameters for path retry:
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polling_interval 1
no_path_retry 12
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That means, 'if ...
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How to make RAID controller rescan devices
I have the following setup:
A single server with two LSI MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e controllers which are both connected to two 60-bay disk shelves while roughly following the design by Edmund White (see ...
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Notification on iscsi/multipath failure
I'm running iscsi-initiator combined with multipathd on a CentOS machine. How can I effectively be notified (e.g. via email) when one of the paths goes down?
I can't find any suitable option on ...
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How to disable disk device user-friendly names in a RHEL 7 kickstart file
We're right now in the process of deploying a set of fibre-channel connected hosts with multipathed root disks. The installation is automated through foreman, so we boot vie PXE and run anaconda with ...
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Does changing vmware datastore multipathing policy disrupt connectivity
We have several VMware ESXi hosts accessing multiple datastore stored on a fiber channel SAN.
We have found that some of the hosts are still set to "Most recently used" mode for their multipathing ...
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Correct filtering of raw devices which are multipath components out of LVM
I have a HP MSA P2000 FC with dual controllers, dual HP SAN switches and a couple of servers with QLogic "ISP2532-based" 8G dual-port cards. Everything is connected "each to each" way. The OS is ...
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How does packet reordering occur in MPTCP, and how does it affect performance?
I am trying to understand how MPTCP differentiates itself from "normal" TCP implementations running over multiple paths.
Specifically, I want to know whether the best impementations of TCP are really ...
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In Infiniband can I use the same port for IPoIB traffic as well as RDMA traffic?
Good day,
and my disclaimer that I am no IB expert and have not worked on IB directly yet.
My question seems a trivial one, yet I could not find anything in google that answers it.
Question: In ...
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multipath on iscsi target is it posible?
Is it possible to configure multipath on target iscsi SAN? I configured multipath on vmware iscsi initiator and it's work but bouth flows goes on the one SAN storage port with the IP but is it posible ...
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Linux Multipath
We have 3 hosts which are under oracle RAC cluster, recently we have seen lot of multipath path missing on all the 3 hosts and sometimes these hosts reboot automatically.
current scenario is on host ...
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Seeing Multiple Partition for same LUN
Anyone knows why I am seeing multiple device for the same LUN?I checked with storage team they only exposed 360000970000196801239533036304532 for this server but why I am seeing these many partition(...
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only one of two SFP ports reachable on iSCSI SAN
I have a server with HP NC523 dual 10GbE network card and HP MSA1040 storage with dual 10GbE iSCSI-controller.
Both ports on NC523 are configured as a bond. The ports on MSA have different IP-...
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Fiber multipath fails: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
I am trying to copy(~7TB of data using rsync) between two server in same data center in the backend its using EMC VMAX3
After copying ~30-40GB of data multipath start failing
Dec 15 01:57:53 test....
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SAN, ISCSI and Multipath (MLAG?)
I'm a bit confused regarding the setup of a SAN with ISCSI and multipath. We are upgrading our network to 10Gbit, so there are 2 10Gbit switches that are configured with MLAG for normal ethernet ...
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Refresh uuid of physical device
I'm trying to clone a LUN on a server and present it to the same server and am running into UUID oddities. I don't create partitions on the LUN, just create a PV and then LVM on top of that so I can ...
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Race condition in active/active clusters
DM-Multipath document says that multipathd support active/active clusters with some policies such as round-robin. However, there is some racing problem in this kind of clusters.
For example, assume ...
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Fujtisu Eternus DX80 change iSCSI Discovery Reply Mode
I have a configuration mistake in my dx80 and the system is already in production. I have to set "iSCSI Discovery Reply Mode" at "Host Response" configuration to "All - Reply All Ports (Default)". Is ...
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ESXI 6.0 u2 multipathing configuration with group by prio
Is it possible to change the path grouping policy of ESXI 6.0 multipathing to group_by_priority? In essence I want to work with the grouping priorities given by a SAN storage. I didnt see any specific ...
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open-iscsi initiator on linux does not see the passive side of an active/passive open-e target
I have a Linux server running SLES11 SP4 which uses open-iscsi and multipathing to connect to a LUN that is presented from an Open-E DSS v7 storage cluster with active/passive failover.
The Linux ...
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No w/s in iostat output even though wMB/s is high
I am trying to format a 2 TB SAN based block device (/dev/mapper/mpathb). Even though, mke2fs has been running since over one hour without completing, iostat -z -x -m 10 output in a separate terminal ...
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How do I set up the default route on a Linux router with dual ISP links?
So, here's the situation.
I have dual ISP links currently active and working for routing traffic from my network, with a very similar iptables setup to the accepted answer at Load balancing & NAT-...
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