0n Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:19:03AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote:
>Rongsheng Fang wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> Thanks for you reply. We are currently using Veritas DMP for
>> multipathing. I understand MPxIO creates one psedo device to represent
>> all the paths to a physical disk/LUN. So with MPxIO, does it mean that
>> Solaris will just need to discover the MPxIO pseudo device indtead of all
>> the paths a LUN thereforce make the boot process much shorter?
>
>Hi Rongshen,
>Yes, that is indeed the case.
>
>For Nevada we've made really big improvements in boot time
>for configurations such as yours - build 85 and later is
>looking really good in that area :-)
So conceptually, having multipathing software setup will speed up bootstrap time
significantly ? And is this accross the board with all MP software or just a
MPxIO benefit ?
-aW
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