On 5/18/2011 12:46 PM, Hudes, Dana wrote:
Sorry I was unclear. All LUNs from all arrays (we have 4 kinds of arrays on the 
FC SAN no 2 alike) are configured to be visible to the entire LDOM cluster. I 
was discussing impact of a failure of some kind which made some LUNs 
unreachable (e.g. Failure of the entire array perhaps because the SAN admins 
upgraded the array firmware in an improper manner and took out both paths or 
perhaps a power transient tripped us to battery and we have too may KVA and one 
array gets hit or even better the whole array doesn't go away only the one 
parity group loses 2 disks in a 6+1 config and your LUN is now history).
In such case failover won't help.
sure if you want array protection then one need to do SW mirroring between array or you pay big $$$ for enterprise array that claim never went down, due to controller failure or firmware upgrade


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Sent: Wed May 18 12:26:10 2011
Subject: Re: [ldoms-discuss] Solaris cluster

in addition in order to move zones between hosts(real or ldom) it is
much better to have shared SAN


On 5/18/2011 12:21 PM, Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D. wrote:
hi
it seems that you are make life too complicated
1)if you want to failover zone, you will need SAN that can be access
by both zone (with or without ldom)
2)if you want failover ldom then you also need SAN that can be access
by both LDOM

On 5/18/2011 12:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Is it possible (and a good idea or bad idea) to run Solaris cluster
in failover mode for LDOM2 guests and also separate  Solaris Cluster
of zones in the guests? Auto failover would seem tricky if the LDOM
can failover though criteria are tricky.
For example if Zone A in a LDOM has storage from SAN array S1 and
Zone B in same LDOM has storage from SAN array S2 where there is one
Fiber Channel fabric (dual attach hopefully to 2 switches) for both
arrays and then zone A loses connection to S1 but B is happily using
S2 zone A should failover (or should it?) but not the whole LDOM.

Load balancing of zones in LDOMs is desirable. Perhaps do not allow
failover of zones?

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