[storage-discuss] ssd driver tuning on sparc systems

2006-09-27 Thread Vic Engle
Hello, I've been looking into trying to optimise SFS related tunables and found that one of the previously tunable parameters, ssd_retry_count, is not available in Solaris 10 update2. When I try to set this parameter in /etc/system I get a message during boot saying that ssd_retry_count is

[storage-discuss] ALUA or TPGS and MPxIO

2007-01-24 Thread Vic Engle
I have an alua capable array which allows me to turn alua on or off for a specific initiator or group of initiators. When my Solaris 10 U3 system, a 280r, discovered it's luns I had neglected to enable alua on my array for the server's initiators. As a result no scsi_vhci devices were created

[storage-discuss] lpfc and sd.conf entries

2007-03-29 Thread Vic Engle
Just a quick question. I recall in years past that if sd.conf was pre-populated with entries that a boot time delay penalty would occur which was supposed to be something like 3 seconds per lun for luns that really weren't available. My question is does solaris and the sd driver still behave this

[storage-discuss] format -d very slow response

2007-04-11 Thread Vic Engle
I have a script that I use for labeling luns. So if I add 100 luns from my SAN I run the script and it runs devfsadm or cfgadm where appropriate and then gets a list of unlabeled luns via the format command and then iterates over the list and issues the following command... format -f

[storage-discuss] tcp_keepalive_interval and iscsi

2007-05-23 Thread Vic Engle
Hi, Could anyone comment on any recommended TCP tuning specific to the solaris iscsi initiator? The tcp_keepalive_interval default seems to be 2 hours. [EMAIL PROTECTED]]ndd -get /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval 720 Assuming that this parameter is in milliseconds then this works out to

[storage-discuss] Re: Resize iSCSI LUN on client

2007-06-12 Thread Vic Engle
Usually on the host side all that is required is to use format to re-type the lun; choose type then Auto Configure then label the lun. That usually updates the disk geometry to reflect the new lun size. I seem to recall that after this you end up with a default label on the lun but if you make

[storage-discuss] Virtual IP Integration

2007-06-15 Thread Vic Engle
Has there been any discussion here about the idea integrating a virtual IP into ZFS. It makes sense to me because of the integration of NFS and iSCSI with the sharenfs and shareiscsi properties. Since these are both dependent on an IP it would be pretty cool if there was also a virtual IP that

[storage-discuss] Device support in mpxio

2007-09-07 Thread Vic Engle
Are the non-Sun Asymmetrical disk arrays supported by Solaris multipathing S/W documented anywhere? Thanks, Vic From - http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0139/ch_1_prod_oview.html Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Device Support - The Solaris FC and Storage Multipathing software support the following

[storage-discuss] MPxIO / scsi_vhci.conf changes

2007-11-14 Thread Vic Engle
I installed snv_75 recently and noticed that the scsi_vhci.conf file no longer has the following section... # device-type-scsi-options-list = # SUN SENA, symmetric-option; Instead it has this new section... # scsi-vhci-failover-override = # STK FLEXLINE 400, f_asym_lsi, #

[storage-discuss] Selecting emlxs or lpfc for Emulex HBAs

2007-11-30 Thread Vic Engle
The emlxdrv utility may be used to configure a host to use either emlxs or lpfc for Emulex HBAs. The emlxs driver is used by default. What does emlxdrv do to configure one driver or the other? Is it possible to script this change so that a jumpstart finish script could configure a host being

[storage-discuss] FCoE Project

2008-06-19 Thread Vic Engle
Just curious about progress being made with this project. Any estimates as to availability of the target and initiator? Thanks, Vic This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org