Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-31 Thread Peter Gillich
I forget to describe a non-general solution for I/O errors at boot time. Its the Multi-Path Proxy driver (linuxrdac), which acts as one device. Here is a description: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Products/HA/DellRedHatHALinuxCluster/Storage/PowerVault_MD3000/Software BR, Peter On Fri, Ja

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Gillich
Ooops, I missed a citation: "We normally see these when the target has multiple controllers and one of the controllers is in passive mode where it would normally be used to fail over to, or when one controller is being upgraded or when some management operation is being executed on a controller."

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Gillich
Hi Ed, The persistent reservation is a SCSI-3 feature. I'ts useful in a cluster environment, where multiple nodes are configured to access a device while at the same time blocking access to other nodes. To disable the iSCSI offload feature, disable the Broadcom iSCSI diver (bnx2i), for example: e

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 07:48 Sun 23 Jan, Peter Gillich (pgill...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > In last summer, I have had same problems with Dell + CentOS + > multipath combination. For example I/O errors and stability problems > on the initiator machines. The initator machines are (in a Pacemaker > cluster): > - Dell R31

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-22 Thread Peter Gillich
Hi, In last summer, I have had same problems with Dell + CentOS + multipath combination. For example I/O errors and stability problems on the initiator machines. The initator machines are (in a Pacemaker cluster): - Dell R310 - Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet card (4-port) - CentOS 5.4 - 2 Ethernet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:06 Sat 22 Jan, Rajagopal Swaminathan (raju.rajs...@gmail.com) wrote: > Greetings, > > On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius wrote: > > CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful > > advice from Dell. There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem > > to know w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath -- slightly OT

2011-01-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius wrote: > CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful > advice from Dell. There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem > to know what Dell's own software installation (the md3 > > Dell doesn't seem to have much OS exp

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:07 Fri 21 Jan, Ross Walker (rswwal...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > > >> We've been wrestling with this for ... rather l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > >> We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. >> >> Host / initiator systems are a number of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to > admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to > admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays. > > CentOS is not a

[CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays. CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful advice