Disk Enclosure Zoning / gmultipath

Outback Dingo outbackdingo at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 20:47:20 UTC 2013


Okay... 4U Disk Enclosure, has 2 physical compute nodes, each physical
compute nodes has 2 LSI 9211-8i controllers, so thats 4 total controllers
across 2 nodes

the box is enclosure is zoned and FreeBSD can see the following

nodeA

16 daX devices
16 sesX,passX devices

NodeB

16 daX devices
16 sesX,passX devices

there are 32 disks in the box, so the numbers are good, however

each LSI card only has a total of 8 SATA drives assigned to it

hence 4 x 8 = 32 drives.......

for gmultipath and zfs shouldnt each controller see 32 drives? or 16 drives
for HA

basically im thinking the enclosure shouldnt be zoned at all so each LSI
controller
can see every SATA drive, with gmultipath in the mix, i should be able to
label 32 devices, and have both nodes recognize them... correct??? or am I
chasing the rabbit down the wrong hole?


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