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]>: > 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 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 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 automatic load balancing > (sharing) between the two controllers ? > > Thanks, > Krutibas _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
