MPIO for RHEL 5 ... for storage XP1024.

[AadiCh]

Hi

MPIO or any alternate to mpio required for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 against XP1024 Storage System.

thanks in adavance :)

[Jan Soska]

Hello,
I think you have to use native HBA features to do this on linux - preffered HBA is qlogic. We have similar setup with EVA, it works.

Jan

[AadiCh]

Jan,

system has 2 QLA2460 FC HBAs, running RHEL5 and connected to XP1024 but problem is this that MPIO software is only available for XP10000, XP12000, XP20000, XP24000

:(
MPIO is not available for XP1024 for RHEL5.



any idea about Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM) Software ???


what about native driver? provides fail-over? multipath management?


thanks.

[Jan Soska]

Hello,
I have experencie with EVA's, I can ask my coleagues about XP's (they have 12000's and 24000's).
Generally - we use qlogic driver and failover/failback work great, no performance issues. There is no more layers.
On other system - linux RH + Rac cluster, we have additional device mapper + ocfs, there are som problem if EVA's controlers are rebooting.

XP1024 looks to be quite older array. Is it even supported with RH5? Have you check HP Spock matrix?

Jan

[Peter Mattei · Accepted solution]

Hi

Linux Device Mapper is fully supported with the XP1024.
The supported versions are
Device-Mapper Multipath kit v4.0.0 and v4.2.0

Do you know SPOCK?
It is the official HP storage compatibility database.
Go here http://www.hp.com/storage/spock
You need to register once.

On the home page go to SAN Compatibility select > View by Array/OS
In the matrix select RedHat + XP1024
Now choose your distribution and server model

At the very bottom you will find the link that will create a support PDF for you like
View the complete XP128/1024 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 configuration

Cheers
XP-Pete

[AadiCh]

thanks Peter :)