On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:12AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Monday 07 January 2008 06:55:30 Alex Samad, vous avez écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>: > > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > > > > > production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath > > > > > for a new fileserver and a new mailserver, running etch, using > > > > > qlogic 2432 hbas. This would the first time I did this in > > > > > production, however, so it would be nice to have some reassurance > > > > > that I'm not sticking my neck out too far. > > > > > > > > who provide you storage, probably best to talk to them, most vendor > > > > have matrix's out what combo of storage/hw/firmware/sw they have > > > > certified, I believe HP have looked at multipath, not sure about the > > > > others > > > > > > In general, I find most such matrixes exclude Debian, preferring to > > > focus on corporate distro's like Suse, Redhat, etc. That hasn't scared > > > me away from using Debian where I know the pieces well enough. But > > > multipath is new to me, so I'm a little out of my comfort zone. > > > > true but you can check the version numbers, even download their packages > > and fit them into your debian system. > > > > I believe HP is becoming more debian friendly > > Perhaps, yes, but... > I had the confirmation last week : Debian is not supported in a SAN > environment. They don't provide the Qlogic drivers and firmware. > > And for multipathing, the qlogic drivers they provide for RedHat handle the > multipathing. Not the current open source ones (more recent, it needs > multipath-tools). I have heard that they are moving back towards using the qlogic one ( ie not producing their own), just taking time for the qlogic to come up to speed > > These things appart, I use Debian on my SAN (2xEVA4000 arrays), with > multipath-tools (4 paths), mirroring with md (also not supported) between the > EVAs (I don't want to pay for Continuous Access !) and redhat-cluster-suite > for managing CLVM and failover resources resources. me to (apart from the multi eva mirroring) > > Only unsupported things, either by HP or RedHat (If I were using RedHat for > the cluster suite)... > > Since then, I don't had any problems...
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