compatibility with EMC power path

[Rahul1]

Hi,
I am using Polyserve 3.7.0 on SLES 10 SP2,would like to know which version of EMC powerpath is supported with polyserve 3.7

Thanks,
Rahul.

[Matt Weil]

linux native multi-path should be sufficient

no need for power path.

[Rahul1]

It's a customer request,they need it.Help highly apreciated.

[Guru_Prasad]

Page 8 of Enterprise NAS Products and Solutions Compatibility Matrix lists EMC Power Path version 5.1.2 as supported 3rd Party MPIO Software for Scalable NAS 3.7.0.

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01336151/c01336151.pdf

[Rahul1]

Thanks Guru, for pointing that out.I just tried to install PP 5.1.2 ,installation failed saying this kernel is not supported.

Any work around?.

[chakrinr]

Following are the supported versions of Powerpath for diffrent OS levels of SLES

PowerPath for Linux 5.3.1.1 :
PowerPath 5.3 SP1 P01 (5.3.1.1) for Linux is specific for supporting SLES10 SP3 only, PowerPath 5.3 SP1 P01 for Linux supports SLES10 SP3 on the following architectures (i386, x86_64, ia64 & ppc64)

PowerPath for LINUX 5.3.1 :
PowerPath for Linux 5.3 SP1 Software Download. This release supports: RHEL (4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; SLES9 SP4 and SLES10 SP2). It does not support: (SLES9, SLES9 SP1, SLES9 SP2 or SLES9 SP3), (SLES10 or SLES10 SP1), please check the ESM for the latest supported kernel.

PowerPath for Linux 5.3.2 for SLES11 (Multipathing only) :
PowerPath 5.3.2 for Linux is specific for supporting SLES11 (Multipathing only), (this version is also known as PowerPath 5.3 SP2), PowerPath 5.3.2 for Linux supports SLES11 on the following

[Rahul1]

@all
Thanks a lot for the support.

Regards,
Rahul.

[Emil Velez]

you might have to build your own kernel with polyserve and powerpath instead of using the pre-built kernels.