RHEL 5.2 and 5.3 - ISCSI Errors impacting database performance?

2009-03-12 Thread bigcatxjs
Hi, This is my first post on this Forum, so apologies in advance if I have missed something or not found an existing post that covers this topic. Situation: We have a number of hosts running RHEL 5.2 (x86_64) for our Oracle database estate. A typical deployment could comprise a DELL 1955 Blade

Re: RHEL 5.2 and 5.3 - ISCSI Errors impacting database performance?

2009-03-12 Thread bigcatxjs
Thanks Ulrich, Unfortunately, budgetary restrictions prevent us from moving to Fibre Channel :( Rich. On Mar 12, 2:56 pm, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: Hi, I haven't investigated, but I see similar short offline periods for iSCSI here. For your situation I'd

Re: [PATCH 07/31] scsi: Auto-load scsi_transport_iscsi module when socket opened.

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Christie
drop lkml. Scott James Remnant wrote: The scsi_transport_iscsi module is missing the net-pf-16-proto-8 alias that would cause it to be auto-loaded when a socket of that type is opened. This patch adds the alias. Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Tim

Re: RHEL 5.2 and 5.3 - ISCSI Errors impacting database performance?

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Christie
bigcatxjs wrote: For this RHEL 5.2 setup, does it make a difference if you do not use ifaces and setup the box like in 5.3 below? iscsiadm: iSCSI Transport Class version 2.0-724 iscsiadm version 2.0-868 Target: iqn.2000-08.com.datacore:sm2-3 Current Portal: 172.16.200.9:3260,1