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From: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: understanding of multipathing and speed
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:58:30 +0200
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On lun., 2010-07-05 at 20:37 +0200, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to run my ideas by this list about multipathing and the results 
> as far as storage speed is concerned.
> 
> I'm using multipathing to two iSCSI targets pointing to the same storage. It 
> was my understanding that this provides for network path redundancy (and it 
> does, I tested this) but also for added speed. 
> I did some tests with Bonnie++ however while both paths were active and one 
> path was down and the results are basically the same. 
> 
> Am I assuming wrong things? Or have I configured things wrong?
> 
can you also include a 'multipath -l' output and sketch the
hba/switch/controller physical connections ?

thanks,
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Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>
OpenSVC