Questions tagged [multipath]
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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 IBM HS20 blades with RHEL5.4 on board and 2x…
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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 that use
the device is found by lsof(8)…
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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?
This forum post shows the user's solution to have…
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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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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 10.01.00.19-k which comes built-in in ubuntu 20.04. When…
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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 add the other route to the table, the first…
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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 me multipath.
I have 2 nics on both server and…
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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. How can I configure linux routing to achieve…
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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 improve I/O performance compared to failover under…
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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 existing LVM? will there be any issue when server…
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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 there is a client who is connected to a disk in SAN…
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Add Windows Server 2008 MPIO futures to Windows 7
I have interest issue.
I want to work with SAN storage via two Fibre Chanel with using multypath. And I want to use Windows 7 as workstation. Can i add this futures to Windows 7. And how to do this? May be I can copy some files from Windows Server…
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