In /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf you could do this

load-balance="none";

That way mpxio would use only one device. I imagine you need a vid/pid
entry also in scsi_vhci.conf for your target.

Regards,
Vic


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  We're currently designing a ZFS fileserver environment with iSCSI based
>  storage (for failover, cost, ease of expansion, and so on). As part of
>  this we would like to use multipathing for extra reliability, and I am
>  not sure how we want to configure it.
>
>   Our iSCSI backend only supports multiple sessions per target, not
>  multiple connections per session (and my understanding is that the
>  Solaris initiator doesn't currently support multiple connections
>  anyways). However, we have been cautioned that there is nothing in
>  the backend that imposes a global ordering for commands between the
>  sessions, and so disk IO might get reordered if Solaris's multipath load
>  balancing submits part of it to one session and part to another.
>
>   So: does anyone know if Solaris's multipath and iSCSI systems already
>  take care of this, or if ZFS already is paranoid enough to deal
>  with this, or if we should configure Solaris multipathing to not
>  load-balance?
>
>  (A load-balanced multipath configuration is simpler for us to
>  administer, at least until I figure out how to tell Solaris multipathing
>  which is the preferrred network for any given iSCSI target so we can
>  balance the overall network load by hand.)
>
>   Thanks in advance.
>
>         - cks
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