Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-14 Thread Guillaume
Le mardi 12 mars 2013 23:30:47 UTC+1, Mike Christie a écrit : On 03/12/2013 08:11 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello Mike On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: On 03/09/2013 05:58 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello, I have a virtual tape library and a iscsi SAN.

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-14 Thread Guillaume
Le mercredi 13 mars 2013 15:44:04 UTC+1, hare a écrit : On 03/12/2013 11:30 PM, Mike Christie wrote: On 03/12/2013 08:11 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello Mike On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: On 03/09/2013 05:58 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello, I have

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-13 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 03/12/2013 11:30 PM, Mike Christie wrote: On 03/12/2013 08:11 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello Mike On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu 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

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-12 Thread Guillaume
Hello Mike On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu 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

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-12 Thread Mike Christie
On 03/12/2013 08:11 AM, Guillaume wrote: Hello Mike On 12 mar, 02:54, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu 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

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-11 Thread Mark Lehrer
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 Typically I only use multipath if I have one initiator talking to one target. Otherwise I just

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-11 Thread Donald Williams
The iSCSI layer doesn't do MPIO, it's done at the host level. Depending on the tape system, you could benefit performance wise using MPIO. Open-iSCSI can be configured to initiate multiple sessions to a single target. Once those volumes are presented to the host, having the same Serial number,

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-11 Thread Guillaume
Hello, If I want to use 802.3ad I must have multiple links to the same switch. For redundancy purposes, each host is connected to two separated networks (like a dual fabric in FC). Regards, Guillaume Le dimanche 10 mars 2013 03:07:01 UTC+1, Mark Lehrer a écrit : I have a virtual tape

Re: Multipath or not ?

2013-03-11 Thread Mike Christie
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

Re: Multipath or OpeniSCSI Issue ?

2011-05-20 Thread Mike Christie
On 05/20/2011 10:29 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Not sure where this should go so cross posting: CentOS 5.6 with kernel 2.6.37.6 and device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-42.el5_6.2. When I run multipath -v9 -d I get: I think you need to post to the dm devel list. I do not see any iscsi issues in

Re: Multipath or OpeniSCSI Issue ?

2011-05-20 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
- Original Message - On 05/20/2011 10:29 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Not sure where this should go so cross posting: CentOS 5.6 with kernel 2.6.37.6 and device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-42.el5_6.2. When I run multipath -v9 -d I get: I think you need to post to the dm devel

Re: Multipath or OpeniSCSI Issue ?

2011-05-20 Thread Mike Christie
On 05/20/2011 10:45 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: - Original Message - On 05/20/2011 10:29 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Not sure where this should go so cross posting: CentOS 5.6 with kernel 2.6.37.6 and device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-42.el5_6.2. When I run multipath -v9 -d I get: I think

Re: Multipath or OpeniSCSI Issue ?

2011-05-20 Thread Mike Christie
On 05/20/2011 10:45 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: - Original Message - On 05/20/2011 10:29 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Not sure where this should go so cross posting: CentOS 5.6 with kernel 2.6.37.6 and device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-42.el5_6.2. When I run multipath -v9 -d I get: I think

Re: Multipath or OpeniSCSI Issue ?

2011-05-20 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
- Original Message - On 05/20/2011 10:45 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: - Original Message - On 05/20/2011 10:29 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Not sure where this should go so cross posting: CentOS 5.6 with kernel 2.6.37.6 and device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-42.el5_6.2. When I

Re: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-30 Thread Hannes Reinecke
mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on an iSCSI disk with two paths. I booted with mapth option but the installer picked up only a single path. Is this the expected behavior when I use iBFT? The install went fine on a single path. I was trying to convert

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 16 Apr 2009 at 13:59, jnantel wrote: FINAL RESULTS * First of all I'd thank Mike Christie for all his help. Mike I'll tapping your brain again for some read performance help. This for the benefit of anyone using the Dell Equallogic PS5000XV PS5000E with SLES10 SP2 / Redhat

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-17 Thread jnantel
Accross my SAN, tuned system: ping -I eth2 -s 9000 10.1.253.48 PING 10.1.253.48 (10.1.253.48) from 10.1.253.48 eth2: 9000(9028) bytes of data. 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.074 ms 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.013 ms 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48:

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-16 Thread jnantel
FINAL RESULTS * First of all I'd thank Mike Christie for all his help. Mike I'll tapping your brain again for some read performance help. This for the benefit of anyone using the Dell Equallogic PS5000XV PS5000E with SLES10 SP2 / Redhat 5.3 / Centos 5.3 / Oracle Linux + Multipath ( MPIO

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-15 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Most people run a filesystem on top of a block device imported via open-iscsi. It is well

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Can you elaborate on the above ? I have already measured a throughput of more than 60 MB/s

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread jnantel
Well I've got some disconcerting news on this issue. No changes at any level alter the 34/meg throughput I get. I flushed multipath, blew away /var/lib/iscsi just in case. I also verified in /var/lib/iscsi the options got set. RHEL53 took my renice no problem. Some observations: Single

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Christie
Bart Van Assche wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Can you elaborate on the above ? I have already measured a

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Christie
jnantel wrote: Well I've got some disconcerting news on this issue. No changes at any level alter the 34/meg throughput I get. I flushed multipath, blew away /var/lib/iscsi just in case. I also verified in /var/lib/iscsi the options got set. RHEL53 took my renice no problem. What were

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread jnantel
iometer 32k write 0 read 0 randoms Equallogic is using this in their lab iozone with -I option and various settings dd + iostat On Apr 14, 1:57 pm, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Bart Van Assche wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Christie
jnantel wrote: I am having a major issue with multipath + iscsi write performance with anything random or any sequential write with data sizes smaller than 4meg (128k 64k 32k 16k 8k). With 32k block size, I am able to get a maximum throughput of 33meg/s write. My performance gets cut

RE: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-03 Thread Shyam_Iyer
Mike Christie wrote: mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on an iSCSI disk with two paths. I booted with mapth option but the installer picked up only a single path. Is this the expected behavior when I use iBFT? For this mail ibft boot means the boot

RE: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-03 Thread Shyam_Iyer
mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Mike Christie [micha...@cs.wisc.edu] wrote: If the ibft implementation uses one session, but exports all the targets in the ibft info, then in RHEL 5.3 the installer only picks up the session used for the ibft boot up, but the initrd root-boot code used after the

Re: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Christie
shyam_i...@dell.com wrote: Mike Christie wrote: mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on an iSCSI disk with two paths. I booted with mapth option but the installer picked up only a single path. Is this the expected behavior when I use iBFT? For this

RE: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-03 Thread Shyam_Iyer
Mike Christie wrote: That is what I said in the mail you replied to more or less. For boot it is fixed. iscsiadm/iscsistart logs into all the targets found in ibft whehter they were used for the ibft boot or not. For install there is a bug still, because the isntaller code used the wrong API

Re: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-01 Thread Malahal Naineni
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:13:10AM -0700, mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on an iSCSI disk with two paths. I booted with mapth option but the installer picked up only a single

RE: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-01 Thread berthiaume_wayne
Hi Malahal. There is a BZ for SLES. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436463 I, too, have not been able to get RHEL 5.3 to install either. Regards, Wayne. -Original Message- From: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-is...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: multipath iSCSI installs

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Christie
mala...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on an iSCSI disk with two paths. I booted with mapth option but the installer picked up only a single path. Is this the expected behavior when I use iBFT? For this mail ibft boot means the boot process where the ibft