[dm-devel] DM-MP, Xen 5.0.0 and NetApp

Rodrigo Nascimento nascimento.rp at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 14:45:53 UTC 2009


multipath -ll output:

[root at CMPXEN02 ~]# multipath -ll
360a98000572d42774e6f4f2f682f6330dm-0 NETAPP,LUN
[size=20G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=32][active]
 \_ 0:0:0:0 sda        8:0   [active][ready]
 \_ 0:0:1:0 sdb        8:16  [active][ready]
 \_ 1:0:0:0 sdd        8:48  [active][ready]
 \_ 1:0:1:0 sde        8:64  [active][ready]
 \_ 2:0:0:0 sdh        8:112 [active][ready]
 \_ 3:0:0:0 sdi        8:128 [active][ready]
 \_ 3:0:1:0 sdj        8:144 [active][ready]
 \_ 2:0:1:0 sdk        8:160 [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=7][enabled]
 \_ 0:0:2:0 sdc        8:32  [active][ready]
 \_ 1:0:2:0 sdf        8:80  [active][ready]
 \_ 1:0:3:0 sdg        8:96  [active][ready]
 \_ 3:0:2:0 sdl        8:176 [active][ready]
 \_ 3:0:3:0 sdn        8:208 [active][ready]
 \_ 0:0:3:0 sdo        8:224 [active][ready]
 \_ 2:0:3:0 sdp        8:240 [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled]
 \_ 2:0:2:0 sdm        8:192 [failed][faulty]


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:

> Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>  I'm having problems to put the Multipathing tools to work correctly with
>> NetApp Cluster Solution.
>>  I have a xenpool with 3 machines the multipathing are enabled on them,
>> the HBA are Qlogic, two FAS3140 controllers in Cluster. I created a lun to
>> be a storage repository (SR), the lun is visible and was recognized on the 3
>> machines, but when we say to the XenServer to build a SR with this Lun, all
>> I/O operations arrive to the FAS3140 by the non-optimized path.
>>  *XenServer multipath.conf*
>>  defaults {
>>        user_friendly_names no
>> }
>> devices {
>>        device {
>>                vendor                  "NETAPP"
>>                product                 "LUN"
>>                path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
>>                getuid_callout          "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
>>                prio_callout            "/sbin/mpath_prio_netapp /dev/%n"
>>                features                "1 queue_if_no_path"
>>                path_checker            directio
>>                failback                immediate
>>        }
>> }
>>  We made two tests, one with prio_callout as /sbin/mpath_prio_alua and
>> other with prio_callout as /sbin/mpath_prio_netapp, both returns the same
>> results.
>>
>>
>
> What's the output of 'multipath -ll'?
> Looks like all paths are configured into one group here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
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Rodrigo Nascimento
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