Jason,
I am no longer looking at not using STMS multipathing because without STMS you
loose the binding to the array and I loose all transmissions between the server
and array. The binding does come back after a few minutes but this is not
acceptable in our environment.
Load times vary
Hi Luke,
I wonder if it is the HBA. We had issues with Solaris and LSI HBAs
back when we were using an Xserve RAID.
Haven't had any of the issues you're describing between our LSI array
and the Qlogic HBAs we're using now.
If you have another type of HBA I'd try it. MPXIO and ZFS haven't ever
I simply created a zpool with an array disk like
hosta# zpool created testpool c6tnumd0 //runs within a second
hosta# zpool export testpool // runs within a second
hostb# zpool import testpool // takes 5-7 minutes
If STMS(mpxio) is disabled, it takes from 45-60 seconds. I tested this with
Luke Schwab wrote:
I simply created a zpool with an array disk like
hosta# zpool created testpool c6tnumd0 //runs within a second hosta#
zpool export testpool // runs within a second hostb# zpool import
testpool // takes 5-7 minutes
If STMS(mpxio) is disabled, it takes from 45-60
