On 03/12/2013 08:11 AM, Guillaume wrote:
> Hello Mike
> 
> On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 03/09/2013 05:58 AM, Guillaume wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> I have a virtual tape library and a iscsi SAN. All have multiple
>>> ethernet interfaces, This will ressult in multiples sessions to the
>>> targets.So I wonder if I must use dm-multipath or not ? Does the current
>>
>> Does the device show up as a tape device or a block device?
>>
> 
> The VTL device emulates robotics, LTO cartridges and LTO5 tape drives.
> The SAN is a block device.

Are you using SCST or TGT or LIO for this?

> 
>>> iscsi layer handle the multiple paths to an iqn or not ?
>>
>>> Another question about the output of "iscsiadm -m session" : the lines
>>> of output begins by @IP:3260,n  where n is an integer. Is this number a
>>> priority level in some way, or does it only distinguish multiple
>>> sessions to the same iqn ?
>>
>> It is the iSCSI target portal group number. It is assigned by the
>> target. You can use it to group portals together. If the initiator and
>> target supports MC/s you could then do a iSCSI level multipathing called
>> MC/s over portals with the same target portal group number. open-iscsi
>> does not support MC/s
>>
>>
> 
> So what I understand is that I must use md-multipath to handle the

Use dm-multipath. md-multipath is older and does not have as many features.

> multiple path to the targets and give applications a unique path to
> the tape or block devices. My storages systems support MC/S but my
> linux boxes won't.
> 
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>>> Regards,
>>> Guillaume
>>
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