to clarify I currently use mpxio with clariion raid5 luns in failover mode 1, so why do I need to use failover mode 4 (ALUA) for raid6 luns?
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Max Levine <max...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to make it work without enabling ALUA? I really dont > want to do that. > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Torrey McMahon <tmcmah...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 6/3/2010 3:13 PM, Max Levine wrote: >>> >>> I am having a problem configuring a lun (raid-6) from EMC clariion under >>> mpxio. >>> >>> the raid-6 luns have a different id than raid5 (DGC VRAID), so I >>> had to add the following to scsi_vhci.conf: >>> >>> device-type-scsi-options-list = >>> "DGC VRAID", "symmetric-option"; >>> >>> symmetric-option = 0x1000000; >> >> Trying to fake out mpxio by telling it that the Clariion is a symmetric >> array is a bad idea. Put it into ALUA mode, take out the bits above, and it >> should work out of the box. >> _______________________________________________ >> storage-discuss mailing list >> storage-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
