Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2010-01-08 Thread Kyle Schmitt
Using a single path (without MPIO) as a baseline: With bonding I saw, on average 99-100% of the speed (worst case 78%) of a single path. With MPIO (2 nics) I saw, on average 82% of the speed (worst case 66%) of the single path. With MPIO with one nic (ifconfig downed the second), I saw, on

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2010-01-06 Thread Mike Christie
On 12/30/2009 11:48 AM, Kyle Schmitt wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Christiemicha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: So far single connections work: If I setup the box to use one NIC, I get one connection and can use it just fine. Could you send the /var/log/messages for when you run the

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:48:31AM -0600, Kyle Schmitt wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: So far single connections work: If I setup the box to use one NIC, I get one connection and can use it just fine. Could you send the /var/log/messages for

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-31 Thread Kyle Schmitt
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: If you have just a single iscsi connection/login from the initiator to the target, then you'll have only one tcp connection, and that means bonding won't help you at all - you'll be only able to utilize one link of the bond.

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-31 Thread Kyle Schmitt
Note, the EMC specific bits of that multipath.conf were just copied from boxes that use FC to the SAN, and use MPIO successfully. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups open-iscsi group. To post to this group, send email to open-is...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-30 Thread Kyle Schmitt
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: So far single connections work: If I setup the box to use one NIC, I get one connection and can use it just fine. Could you send the /var/log/messages for when you run the login command so I can see the disk info? Sorry

RE: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-10 Thread berthiaume_wayne
Hi Kyle. For your configuration do you have a LUN in the storage group assigned to your server? If so, the LUN is presented to both SPs (service processors) but only owned by one. If your storage group for the server has been configured for the default mode the LUN is presented in PNR

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-10 Thread Kyle Schmitt
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Kyle Schmitt wrote: What do you mean by works? Can you dd it, or fdisk it? it works by most any measure sdc: I can dd it, fdisk it, mkfs.ext3 it, run iozone, etc. In contrast sdb sdd and sde cant be fdisked, dded, or

Re: Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-09 Thread Mike Christie
Kyle Schmitt wrote: I'm cross-posting here from linux-iscsi-users since I've seen no linux-scsi-users would be for centos 4. Centos 5 uses a different initiator, but you are the right place finally :) traffic in the weeks since I posted this. Hi, I needed a little help or advice with my

Need help with multipath and iscsi in CentOS 5.4

2009-12-08 Thread Kyle Schmitt
I'm cross-posting here from linux-iscsi-users since I've seen no traffic in the weeks since I posted this. Hi, I needed a little help or advice with my setup. I'm trying to configure multipathed iscsi on a CentOS 5.4 (RHEL 5.4 clone) box. Very short version: One server with two NICs for iSCSI