On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Florian Haas wrote:

> On 2011-10-05 14:59, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It looks like iscsi multipath IO is not supported by iscsi RA.
>> What would be the proper way to configure iSCSI MPIO in a pacemaker cluster?
> 
> OK, so first of all are you absolutely positive you _must_ use MPIO?
> Most users find it much easier to just run their iSCSI initiator over a
> bonded network interface if all you want to protect against is network
> failure.
> 

This could start a holy war, but this is configuration which is recommended by 
Dell and, furthermore , not all storages have bonding capabilities, but, 
usually, they do have multiple ethernet interfaces.


> Secondly, you can always define two iscsi resources that Pacemaker
> manages via ocf:heartbeat:iscsi. Then as soon as those come online,
> provided the SCSI target sets consistent serial numbers and SCSI IDs,
> multipathd should happily put them together as one mpath device. In your
> configuration, does it not do that?
> 

This would create a very complicated configuration. You have to colocate both 
resources and you can't use inf: in colocation because it would break 
redundancy  (all or nothing)
I guess lsb:iscsi RA is the only option.


Regards,
Vadym

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