[TriLUG] fibre channel, multipathing, and recent kernels/distros

[Andrew Ball]

Great, thanks!

I'll let you know what happens when I get back to working on this.

Peace.
Andrew

On 8/5/06, Ben Pitzer <bpitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have any direct experience with those switches, but I know FC
> switch
> zoning in general.  Can that BladeCenter switch use both hard and soft
> zoning (port-based vs. WWN-based)?  I would suggest soft zoning, because
> that is somewhat harder to screw up, IMHO.
>
> I'm not familiar with qlremote, but I do have some small familiarity with
> Qlogic's SANsurfer utility for configuring your persistent bindings on
> Linux
> (mostly worked with RHEL so far, though, no SLES).
>
> I can probably help at least to some degree.  Send me an email with some
> questions or let me know, and I might be able to help remotely.
>
> -Ben Pitzer
>
>
> On 8/5/06, Andrew Ball <anball at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good morning.
> >
> > A while back, I started a thread to ask for help for fibre channel.  It
> > turns out
> > that my problem was that I could not configure multipathing properly in
> > SLES 10.  The qlremote utility from Qlogic did not work in-band, plus
> > I was deploying the root file system from fibre.
> >
> > Anyone good with configuring zoning on BladeCenter fibre switches or
> know
> > where to find some docs for this?
> >
> > Someone suggested just yanking one of the fibre cables out of the
> switch,
> > which I've done.  This isn't a production environment :-P
> >
> > Supposedly, the Qlogic utilities are supposed to be replaced by md and
> > friends, but I haven't seen much documentation on how to use them.
> >
> > Many thanks for your help!
> >
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