Hello Everyone I am wanting feed back from people familiar with Dell Equallogic ISCSI SANS.
Our organization has just purchased a Dell Equallogic ISCSI SAN with all the equipment required to allow a host to have fully redundant paths to this SAN. We have also purchased PowerEdge Servers with Broadcom NetXtremeII Nics /ISCSI HBA's. On some of these servers we want to run Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or CentOS 5.4 I can find documentation on using Software ISCSI initiators, but nothing on using Broadcom Hardware HBA's so I am assuming it is a case of go into the BIOS of the server put in the license key for the Hardware HBA and then another device that looks like a Nic will be present once RHEL or CentOS is installed. Is this correct ? If this is the case I am assuming I still use the open iscsi initiator tools to manage things ? To ensure redundancy each Linux host will have two nics going connected to the ISCSI network. And I am aware that I can use dmsetup / multipath to setup a redundant device but one thing that confuses me is that if the two nics (each connected to a separate switch) are on the same subnet (as Dell have instructed me to do) how can you guarantee that the two connections you see are using the appropriate redundant paths ? Or is this not really an issue ? Thank you for any thoughts or experiences that you can share related to a setup like this, and have a nice day :) _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
