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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] boot from san with multipath support
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:09:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4331E82E.1040207@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432EA289.9060502@solnet.ch>

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Rene Zbinden wrote:
> We have a HDS 9980 System and I have heard of HDML. Somebody already
> tested that.
> And what is the best way to install on a san disk? any pitfalls? Is it
> difficult to boot from a SAN disk?

We (where I work) have an HDS 9980 system as well and haven't been
having any luck finding reliable drivers for linux with multipath
support. Have any of you gotten that to work or point me to the right
direction?

> Witschel, Matthias, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE wrote:
> 
>> I know that the QLogic HBAs have built-in Multipathing support with
>> enabled drivers (these should be availible from IBM or QLogic). This
>> would prevent you from configuring Multipathing on OS level, thus
>> making everything a bit easier. This I would recommend.
>>
>> Im using QLogic HBAs with HP BL and DL Servers and they work fine
>> under linux. With IBM HBAs I have no experience. They might work as
>> well or even better.

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Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19  8:02 AW: AW: [gentoo-server] boot from san with multipath support Witschel, Matthias, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
2005-09-19 11:35 ` Rene Zbinden
2005-09-21 23:09   ` Lance Albertson [this message]
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2005-09-16 21:41 Rene Zbinden
2005-09-18 15:36 ` gistolero

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