Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-16 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Philip, I'm not an expert, so I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you. I'd call Apple Support and see what they say. As horrid as they are at Enterprise support they may be the best ones to clarify if multipathing is available without Xsan. Best Regards, Jason On 1/16/07, Philip Mötteli <[

[zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
> Looks like its got a half-way decent multipath > design: > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Xsan/1.1/ > en/c3xs12.html Great, but that is with Xsan. If I don't exchange our Hitachi with an Xsan, I don't have this 'cvadmin'. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
> Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > > 2. I belive it's definitely possible to just > correct your config under > > Mac OS without any need to use other fs or volume > manager, however > > going to zfs could be a good idea anyway > > > That implies that MacOS has some sort of native SCSI > multipathin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Dominic Kay
Go poke around in the multipath Xsan storage pool properties. Specifies how Xsan uses multiple Fibre Channel paths between clients and storage. This is the equiv of Veritas DMP or [whatever we now call] Solaris MPxIO /d 2007/1/15, Philip Mötteli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, > Monday, January 15,

[zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
Hi, > Monday, January 15, 2007, 10:44:49 AM, you wrote: > PM> Since they have installed a second path to our Hitachi SAN, my > PM> Mac OS X Server 4.8 mounts every SAN disk twice. > PM> I asked everywhere, if there's a way, to correct that. And the > PM> only answer so far was, that I need a volu