vi my_enclosures.conf fwiw
Peter On 2015 Jun 20 Sat, at 24:05, Allen, Benjamin S. <[email protected]> wrote: >> One imagines that GNR uses the SCSI enclosure services to talk to the >> shelves. > > It does. It just isn't aware of SAS topologies outside of the supported > hardware configuration. As Sven mentioned the issue is mapping out which > drive is which, which enclosure is which, etc. That's not exactly trivial > todo in a completely dynamic way. > > So while GNR can "talk" to the enclosures and disks, it just doesn't have any > built-in logic today to be aware of every SAS enclosure and topology. > > Ben > >> On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Buzzard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 10:56 -0400, Zachary Giles wrote: >>> I think it's technically possible to run GNR on unsupported trays. You >>> may have to do some fiddling with some of the scripts, and/or you wont >>> get proper reporting. >>> Of course it probably violates 100 licenses etc etc etc. >>> I don't know of anyone who's done it yet. I'd like to do it.. I think >>> it would be great to learn it deeper by doing this. >>> >> >> One imagines that GNR uses the SCSI enclosure services to talk to the >> shelves. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_Enclosure_Services >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES-2_Enclosure_Management >> >> Which would suggest that anything that supported these would work. >> >> I did some experimentation with a spare EXP810 shelf a few years ago on >> a FC-AL on Linux. Kind all worked out the box. The other experiment with >> an EXP100 didn't work so well; with the EXP100 it would only work with >> the 250GB and 400GB drives that came with the dam thing. With the EXP810 >> I could screw random SATA drives into it and it all worked. My >> investigations concluded that the firmware on the EXP100 shelf >> determined if the drive was supported, but I could not work out how to >> upload modified firmware to the shelf. >> >> JAB. >> >> -- >> Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk >> Fife, United Kingdom. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gpfsug-discuss mailing list >> gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org >> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
