I just dont want to add a new variable in production system. Also on Clariion ALUA is implemented by passing data through the clariion messaging interface which is a PCI bus between the 2 SPs. I am not sure that this bus can handle massive data flow in case of an SP failure.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Torrey McMahon <tmcmah...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Probably not. Is there a particular reason ALUA is a bad thing? (This is > starting to sound familiar....) > > On 6/3/2010 3:25 PM, Max Levine 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
