MPIO vs. Securepath manager msa1000/1500

[Miika T]

With securepath manager you can control the msa1000/1500 controllers, mainly change which controller is active/passive. Is this kind of operation possible with MPIO? What I am interested in is that if the controller status changes from active to passive, and the controller does a failover, how can I change it the status back to primary controller (if no hardware failure has happened), so that I can still boot off san/msa?

-Miika

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

With MPIO you cannot manage the controller from your OS.
This is a software that just bundles all the devices to one with no management features

[Miika T]

If MPIO has no such features, how do people control the MSA controllers in this kind of environment? I suppose secure path manager does not talk to MPIO driver.

I've understood that you can't force the controller failover from msa cli, and the only way to do it, is with sp manager.

-Miika