Multipathing using device mapper howto?

Multipathing using device mapper howto?

[Bruen, Mark]

I'm just beginning to look at device mapper to multipath SAN luns. I've 
been searching for some time and can't find a simple reference on how to 
create the multipathed devices from the same luns presented to two or 
more HBA paths. Is there a source for that information?
Thanks.
    -Mark

Re: Multipathing using device mapper howto?

[Josef Whiter]

Bruen, Mark wrote:

> I'm just beginning to look at device mapper to multipath SAN luns. 
> I've been searching for some time and can't find a simple reference on 
> how to create the multipathed devices from the same luns presented to 
> two or more HBA paths. Is there a source for that information?
> Thanks.
>    -Mark
>
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I don't know of any external sources, but the quick and dirty way is to 
first fdisk your /dev/sd devices, and then edit your /etc/multipath.conf 
file and comment out hte lines

devnode_blacklist {
        devnode "*"
}

and then uncomment out the lines

defaults {
        multipath_tool  "/sbin/multipath -v0"
        udev_dir        /dev
        polling_interval 10
        default_selector        "round-robin 0"
        default_path_grouping_policy    multibus
        default_getuid_callout  "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
        default_prio_callout    "/bin/true"
        default_features        "0"
        rr_wmin_io              100
        failback                immediate
}

Then reboot, and it should work.  You're devices should show up in 
/dev/dm-#, then all you want to do is do a kpartx -a on /dev/dm-# and it 
will create a new /dev/dm-#+1 for the partitions (ie if my disk was 
/dev/dm-0 and i had one partition, and i ran kpartx -a i would get 
/dev/dm-1.  its equivalent of /dev/sda and /dev/sda1).  Thank you,

Josef

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