I am trying to understand the benefits of MPXIO in our situation.... We have a V880 with the backplane expansion kit and 12 x 73 GB disks but with MPXIO disabled. format(1M) displays 24 disks with 2 paths to each of the 12 disks (c1tXd0 and c2tXd0) and we are mirroring our disks using SVM in the following way:
d500 -m d400 d700 1 d400 1 1 c1t0d0s0 d700 1 1 c2t8d0s0 .......................... My questions are: * Since we are accessing the mirrors thru unique controllers i.e. c1 & c2 are we doing load balancing? I wonder how the system would behave if one of the controllers failed? * How would MPXIO help in the above scenario? Are we doing something terribly wrong by not enabling MPXIO? TIA, -- prasad This message posted from opensolaris.org
