[zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread Marion Hakanson
Greetings, We're trying out a new JBOD here. Multipath (mpxio) is not working, and we could use some feedback and/or troubleshooting advice. The OS is oi151a7, running on an existing server with a 54TB pool of internal drives. I believe the server hardware is not relevant to the JBOD issue,

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu wrote: Greetings, We're trying out a new JBOD here. Multipath (mpxio) is not working, and we could use some feedback and/or troubleshooting advice. Sometimes the mpxio detection doesn't work properly. You can try to whitelist

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread Marion Hakanson
On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu wrote: Greetings, We're trying out a new JBOD here.  Multipath (mpxio) is not working, and we could use some feedback and/or troubleshooting advice. . . . richard.ell...@gmail.com said: Sometimes the mpxio detection doesn't work

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
On 8/01/13 07:20 AM, Marion Hakanson wrote: Greetings, We're trying out a new JBOD here. Multipath (mpxio) is not working, and we could use some feedback and/or troubleshooting advice. Output from 'prtconf -v' would help, as would a cogent description of what you are looking at to determine

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread Marion Hakanson
richard.ell...@gmail.com said: Sometimes the mpxio detection doesn't work properly. You can try to whitelist them, https://www.illumos.org/issues/644 And I said: Thanks Richard, I was hoping I hadn't just made up my vague memory of such functionality. We'll give it a try. That did the

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt_sas multipath problem?

2013-01-07 Thread Marion Hakanson
j...@opensolaris.org said: Output from 'prtconf -v' would help, as would a cogent description of what you are looking at to determine that MPxIO isn't working. Sorry James, I must've made a cut-and-paste-o and left out my description of the symptom. That being, 40 new drives show up as 80 new