Re: Q: Default CHAP username

2009-03-13 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12 Mar 2009 at 12:39, Mike Christie wrote: > > Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a simple question: What user name does open-iscsi use if I only > > uncomment > > (and set) the password, but not the user (That seems to be allowed)? Is it > > the > > initiator name then? > >

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

2009-03-13 Thread bigcatxjs
Thanks Mike, > 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? I have used bonded ifaces so that the I/O requests can be split across multiple NICS (both Server-side and on the Datacore San Melody SM node NICS). This split is ach

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

2009-03-13 Thread bigcatxjs
UPDATE: RHEL 5.3 Host with NO disk i/o to SAN volume has encountered errors; Mar 13 10:38:49 PETDBLINUX01 kernel: connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011) Mar 13 10:38:49 PETDBLINUX01 iscsid: Kernel reported iSCSI connection 1:0 error (1011) state (3) Mar 13 10:38:52 PETDBLINUX01 iscsid

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

2009-03-13 Thread bigcatxjs
UPDATE: RHEL 5.3 Host is showing errors. No Disk I/O to SAN volume (last I/O Thursday 12th March); Mar 13 10:38:49 MYHOST53 kernel: connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011) Mar 13 10:38:49 MYHOST53 iscsid: Kernel reported iSCSI connection 1:0 error (1011) state (3) Mar 13 10:38:52 MYHOS

which isns server would be the best

2009-03-13 Thread Nikhil Talpallikar
hi all, Which iSNS server would you recommend with regards to QoS and ease of usability. cheers, Nikhil \|||/ (o o) ooO-(_)-Ooo Nikhil Talpallikar --talli ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscr

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

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Christie
bigcatxjs wrote: > UPDATE: RHEL 5.3 Host is showing errors. No Disk I/O to SAN volume > (last I/O Thursday 12th March); > Is there anything in the log before this? Something about a ping or nop timing out? > Mar 13 10:38:49 MYHOST53 kernel: connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn > error (1011)

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

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Christie
bigcatxjs wrote: >> At these times is there lots of disk IO? Is there anything in the target >> logs? > It is fair to say that all these volumes take a heavy hit, in terms of > I/O. Each host (excluding the RHEL 5.3. test host) run two Oracle > databases, of which some have intra-database replica