Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-13 Thread Randy S
800 Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath Randy, Can you tell me more about your set up? Is it dual domain/dual controller? | disk shelf | |--- |I/O controller 0|

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-12 Thread Jason Matthews
Randy, Can you tell me more about your set up? Is it dual domain/dual controller? | disk shelf | |--- |I/O controller 0| LSI Port0||+ | --| --->||+ | Server| |I/O controller

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-12 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-12 14:51, Randy S wrote: Thanks very much for your suggestions. But to see what MY level is... zpool upgrade -v tells me everyting except the pool version. Neither does "zpool get version poolname" . It just shows a nice "-" (dash). Any way , I use the latest (default) version whic

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-12 Thread Randy S
(5000 ?) as far as I know... I will try your suggestions surely! Rgds, Randy > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:08:23 +0100 > From: jimkli...@cos.ru > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > > On 2013-02-12 13:41, Randy S wrote: > &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-12 Thread Jim Klimov
andy CC: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org From: ja...@broken.net Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:29:15 -0800 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath randy, if you do absolutely nothing special - meaning no stmsboot or anything else - the mpt2 driv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-12 Thread Randy S
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:29:15 -0800 > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > > > randy, > > if you do absolutely nothing special - meaning no stmsboot or anything else - > the mpt2 driver will default to round

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-07 Thread Richard Elling
t;> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:09:48 +0100 >> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath >> >> -Original message- >> From:Randy S >> Sent:Wed 06-02-2013 13:03 >> Subject: [OpenIn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-07 Thread Jason Matthews
> Which sas drives do you use? In terms of spinning rust, my environment is uniform with ST9146852SS. I have a significant number >10^3 of them running. These drives take a pounding every day and I have only experienced about six drive failures in one year of time. I am not sure if Seagate gets

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-07 Thread Randy S
; Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:29:15 -0800 > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > > > randy, > > if you do absolutely nothing special - meaning no stmsboot or anything else - > the mpt2 driver will default to round robin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-07 Thread Randy S
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > > -Original message- > From: Randy S > Sent: Wed 06-02-2013 13:03 > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org; > > > > Hi all, > > > > I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-07 Thread real-men-dont-click
-Original message- From: Randy S Sent: Wed 06-02-2013 13:03 Subject:[OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org; > > Hi all, > > I have a test system running with OIa7, very much ram, 2 LSI SAS 9207-4i4e > hba's,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-06 Thread Jason Matthews
randy, if you do absolutely nothing special - meaning no stmsboot or anything else - the mpt2 driver will default to round robin. failover is sub-sub second. my configuration works like this and is based on 151a1. if you undo all the old school fancy stuff it will "just work" thanks, j. S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-06 Thread Rocky Shek
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath Hi Rocky, Thanks for your answer. Yes, the Jbod is including dual expander, and yes mpathadm list lu confirms two paths. All goes well using the two paths. The only thing is that when you pull one cable , it grinds to a halt while it notices

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-06 Thread Randy S
2013 20:20:15 + > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath > > Randy, > > 1) By default, 6G HBA(mpt_sas) is already MPxIO enabled. You no longer need > to use stmsboot to set it like with 3G HBA > 2) yes, logicblock will be faster > 3) please make sure you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-06 Thread Rocky Shek
.nl] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:03 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath Hi all, I have a test system running with OIa7, very much ram, 2 LSI SAS 9207-4i4e hba's, 1 sm jbod containing seagate 3Tb sas drives. I have enabled the mu

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sas multipath

2013-02-06 Thread Randy S
Hi all, I have a test system running with OIa7, very much ram, 2 LSI SAS 9207-4i4e hba's, 1 sm jbod containing seagate 3Tb sas drives. I have enabled the multipathing with stmsboot and set it to use logical-blocksize, since round-robin symmetric-option isn't functioning. During tests I can s