Linux SAN Multipathing (HP Storage)
Instead of installing the original device-mapper-multipath package there is a simillar package from HP called HPDMmultipath-[version].tar.gz that has already a configuration for HP EVA and XP storage devices. The HPDMmultipath-[version].tar.gz can be downloaded from http://www.hp.com -> Software and Drivers -> Enter Linux as Search String.
# tar -zxvf HPDMmultipath-3.0.0.tar.gz # cd HPDMmultipath-3.0.0/RPMS # rpm -ivh HPDMmultipath-tools[version]-[Linux-Version]-[ARCH].rpm # vim /etc/multipath.conf defaults { udev_dir /dev polling_interval 10 selector "round-robin 0" path_grouping_policy failover getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" prio_callout "/bin/true" path_checker tur rr_min_io 100 rr_weight uniform failback immediate no_path_retry 12 user_friendly_names yes } devnode_blacklist { devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*" devnode "^hd[a-z]" devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*" } devices { device { vendor "HP|COMPAQ" product "HSV1[01]1 \(C\)COMPAQ|HSV2[01]0" path_grouping_policy group_by_prio getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" path_checker tur path_selector "round-robin 0" prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_alua /dev/%n" rr_weight uniform failback immediate hardware_handler "0" no_path_retry 12 } device { vendor "HP" product "OPEN-.*" path_grouping_policy multibus getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" path_selector "round-robin 0" rr_weight uniform prio_callout "/bin/true" path_checker tur hardware_handler "0" failback immediate no_path_retry 12 } }
Show paths to an EVA8000 storage array.
# multipath -ll mpath0 (3600508b4001054a20001100001c70000) [size=4.0G][features="1 queue_if_no_path"][hwhandler="0"] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=200][active] \_ 0:0:1:1 sdd 8:48 [active][ready] \_ 0:0:3:1 sdj 8:144 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:2:1 sds 65:32 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:3:1 sdv 65:80 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=40][enabled] \_ 0:0:0:1 sda 8:0 [active][ready] \_ 0:0:2:1 sdg 8:96 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:0:1 sdm 8:192 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:1:1 sdp 8:240 [active][ready]
ProLiant Support Pack (PSP)
While installing PSP from HP, unckeck the HBA failover driver in the installation screen, otherwise a new kernel will be installed and the above installed multipathing driver isn’t working correctly anomymore.
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Hi, I have this situation, but after install Proliant Support Pack (PSP) on my HP Blade 465c, it boots with the new initrd and only see one path for every disk, and with load on the server, the server freze if one HBA goes down. There is a way to see all the path again with the PSP installed?
Comment by jorge | November 18, 2009 |
Hi Jorge,
please check weather “grep version /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/0” shows “Driver version x.x.x.x” without “-fo” appended to the version. Otherwise you have enabled the failover mechanism from the QLA-driver.
You can change this setting while changeing “failover = 0” in “/etc/hp_qla2x00.conf” and running “hp_compile_qldriver”. You will of course have to reload the kernel-module – or even better reboot.
Regards,
Andreas
Comment by Andreas | December 10, 2009 |