Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing - SUCCESS!!!

2024-06-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On 6/4/24 21:02, Grant Taylor wrote: It turns out that I needed to change the initiator configuration on the EMC for the test system to use fail-over mode 4, which I think is also known as ALUA. I was really close, but not quite there. Now I've made it all the way. % multipath -l 36006016

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing - SUCCESS!!!

2024-06-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/4/24 21:02, Grant Taylor wrote: It turns out that I needed to change the initiator configuration on the EMC for the test system to use fail-over mode 4, which I think is also known as ALUA. I was really close, but not quite there. Now I've made it all the way. % multipath -l 3600601603

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing - SUCCESS!!!

2024-06-04 Thread Grant Taylor
Pre-Script: It's working. On 6/4/24 19:48, Grant Taylor wrote: The thing that makes me think that this might be EMC CLARiiON specific is the following output. It turns out that I needed to change the initiator configuration on the EMC for the test system to use fail-over mode 4, which I thin

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-06-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/4/24 11:03, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Yes, I have dev-mapper multipath support in the kernel: # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i multipath # CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH is not set CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_QL=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_ST=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HST=m # CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_IOA

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-06-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/4/24 11:03 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I have 2 HBAs. Each HBA is connected to expander A and expander B (seperate expander chips on the same backplane) Each SAS drive has 2 connections. Connection 1 is connected to expander A. 2 is connected to B. (might be the other way round, but this e

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-06-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
Grant, On 6/4/24 12:29 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I don't use FibreChannel myself (can't justify the cost). I hear that. I manage an old EMC for a friend who's still using it as clustered storage for an old VMware install. It started giving us occasional hiccups (corrected memory errors)

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-06-04 Thread Grant Taylor
Hi Joost, On 6/4/24 12:29 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I don't use FibreChannel myself (can't justify the cost). I hear that. I manage an old EMC for a friend who's still using it as clustered storage for an old VMware install. It started giving us occasional hiccups (corrected memory errors

Re: [gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-06-03 Thread Joost Roeleveld
Hi, I'm trying to set up SAN multipathing via dm-multipath for the first time in about a decade. I am seeing the test LUNs (1 x 10 GB and 1 x 100 GB) twice on my relatively recent (<60 days out of date) Gentoo system. But I'm not able to get multipath to see anything. Before I go too de

[gentoo-user] SAN multipathing

2024-05-28 Thread Grant Taylor
Hi, I'm trying to set up SAN multipathing via dm-multipath for the first time in about a decade. I am seeing the test LUNs (1 x 10 GB and 1 x 100 GB) twice on my relatively recent (< 60 days out of date) Gentoo system. But I'm not able to get multipath to see anything. Before I go too dee