[CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath
Ross Walker
rswwalker at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 01:07:37 UTC 2011
On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Edward Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit.
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>> Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.
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>> ...
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> Once this is installed you need to setup dm-multipath, look for multipathd.conf in /etc, get the product id and vendor id from dmesg after making an initial connection via open-iscsi and use that in the mutipath config. Your going to need to use path utility 'rdac' in the config instead of tur.
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> Google is your friend here.
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> -Ross
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> /etc/multipath.conf appears to be appropriately configured (we'd installed the MDSM host components):
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> device {
> vendor "DELL"
> product "MD32xxi"
> path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
> prio rdac
> polling_interval 5
> path_checker rdac
> path_selector "round-robin 0"
> hardware_handler "1 rdac"
> failback immediate
> features "2 pg_init_retries 50"
> no_path_retry 30
> rr_min_io 100
> prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n"
> }
> device {
> vendor "DELL"
> product "MD32xx"
> path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
> prio rdac
> polling_interval 5
> path_checker rdac
> path_selector "round-robin 0"
> hardware_handler "1 rdac"
> failback immediate
> features "2 pg_init_retries 50"
> no_path_retry 30
> rr_min_io 100
> prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n"
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> }
> }
AFAIK the RDAC you have installed looks correct and the config also looks good.
Did you start the multipath service make a connection to each IP and do a 'multipath -ll' and see what shows up?
-Ross
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