Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Soto
The Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide proved very helpful for me: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-1931/ I, too was surprised to see MPIO enabled by default on x86 (we're using Dell/EMC CX3-40 with our X4500 X6250 systems). Charles Quoting Krutibas Biswal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Krutibas Biswal
I am trying to bringup a 3510 JBOD on Solaris 10 and would like to enable multipathing. I have connected both ports on a dual-port HBA to two loops (FC0 and FC5). This is a X4100 running Solaris 10. When I run the format command I only see 12 drives - I was expecting that when 3510 FC JBOD array

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Krutibas Biswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to bringup a 3510 JBOD on Solaris 10 and would like to enable multipathing. I have connected both ports on a dual-port HBA to two loops (FC0 and FC5). This is a X4100 running Solaris 10. When I run the format

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Krutibas Biswal
On x64 Solaris 10, the default setting of mpxio was : mpxio-disable=no; I changed it to mpxio-disable=yes; and rebooted the machine and it detected 24 drives. Thanks, Krutibas Peter Tribble wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Krutibas Biswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Krutibas, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 10:43:03 AM, you wrote: KB On x64 Solaris 10, the default setting of mpxio was : KB mpxio-disable=no; KB I changed it to KB mpxio-disable=yes; KB and rebooted the machine and it detected 24 drives. Originally you wanted to get it multipathed which

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Krutibas Biswal
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Krutibas, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 10:43:03 AM, you wrote: KB On x64 Solaris 10, the default setting of mpxio was : KB mpxio-disable=no; KB I changed it to KB mpxio-disable=yes; KB and rebooted the machine and it detected 24 drives. Originally

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Krutibas Biswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Originally you wanted to get it multipathed which was the case by default. Now you have disabled it (well, you still have to paths but no automatic failover). Thanks. Can somebody point me to

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Horne
Krutibas On x64 Solaris 10, the default setting of mpxio was : mpxio-disable=no; I changed it to mpxio-disable=yes; and rebooted the machine and it detected 24 drives. ...you have just *disabled* Solairs scsi_vhci(7d) multi-pathing. You should go back to 'mpxio-disable=no;' and look

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Krutibas Biswal wrote: Thanks. Can somebody point me to some documentation on this ? I wanted to see 24 drives so that I can use load sharing between two controllers (C1Disk1, C2Disk2, C1Disk3, C2Disk4...) for performance. If I enable multipathing, would the drive do

[zfs-discuss] 3510 JBOD with multipath

2008-05-04 Thread Gino
Well, 3510 is even supported as JBOD by Sun. The only limitation is to use only one FC link. I have tried both 3510 and 3511 as JBODS - 3510 works fins, with 3511 I had some problems under higher load. -- Best regards, Robert Hi Robert, I saw in your post that you had problems