From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k468Psk4030560 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 04:25:54 -0400 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k468PqH8027556 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 04:25:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 10:25:51 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Two Plorilant servers (Redhat) trying to access a HP MSA1000 Message-ID: <20060506082551.GA10926@percy.comedia.it> References: <1146768607.10908.21.camel@ip6-localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1146768607.10908.21.camel@ip6-localhost> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Edgar Luna wrote: >I have two servers with RedHat EL3 connected to an HP MSA1000. What I >want with this servers write/read the disks from the MSA1000. > >I know that LVM is unaware of simultaneous access to one device, so I >tried to divide the storage of MSA1000 in two units (created via the ACU >application), that are seen by the RedHat servers as /dev/sda >and /dev/sdb. Then I created a Physical Volume for each one a Logical >Group and finally a Logical Volume for each of this. could you clarify what your problem is? >I want an advice about this. >What would you do in my situation? >This works? I mean with this I can workaround the LVM 'problem' of >unaware of simultaneous access? could you clarify what your problem is? >Is possible to access the Hard Drives in the MSA1000 directly from Linux >so I can make the LVM directly on disks? no, you cannot, besides that, why did you buy an intellignet storage if you only wanted a disk shelf? -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \