I believe the Clariion array has default setting in MPxIO. I'll check with the developers and get back...
/Scott On Jun 3, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Max Levine wrote: > I am not sure what you mean here. The failover mode is the same (type > 1). Its just the device identification changed from "DGC RAID" to > "DGC VRAID" > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Torrey McMahon <tmcmah...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> mpxio had knowledge of the "original" clariion failover modes. If a new one >> has been added then it would have to be re-coded to know of the new mode, or >> probably in this case, the raid type. >> >> I'd have to go dig through some of the code but if you know the name of the >> emc asymmetric failover module - I think they're all listed in >> scsi_vhci.conf - you could try and use that mode for the new LUN ID instead >> of trying to fake it out as a symmetric LUN. >> >> Of course mpxio already knows how ALUA failover works so if your array came >> up in ALUA mode mpxio should see it out of the box. >> >> On 6/3/2010 3:36 PM, Max Levine wrote: >>> >>> 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 Scott Tracy Director Oracle Open Storage Systems Core I/O 303-272-6040 _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
