similar to: [Fwd: Re: Ocfs and EMC Powerpath]

A couple years ago, we moved to Oracle RAC on Linux using ocfs that is SAN attached to an EMC CLARiiON. At the time, there was a reason that we did NOT use EMC's Powerpath (I just can't recall what that reason was). What I'd like to know is if there are any issues with introducing Powerpath now. * RHEL 2.1 AS * 2.4.9-e.38enterprise * ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.13-1 * EMC

Is anyone using CentOS 4.4 with an EMC Clariion SAN? In particular, I want to know if PowerPath and Naviagent will work on a CentOS 4 system connected to a san using Qlogic or Emulex cards. I tried a couple years ago with Fedora Core 1 or 2, and couldn't get the kernel modules from PowerPath to work since the kernel wasn't the official RHEL one. I'm most interested in

On some machines running PowerPath, there''s sometimes issues after an update/upgrade of the PowerPath software. Sometimes the pseudo devices get remapped and change names. ZFS appears to handle it OK, however sometimes it then references half native device names and half the emcpower pseudo device names. So the SA can easily be confused. Is there a way to tell ZFS which device names

Specs: Oracle 9.2.0.4 OS is Redhat AS2.1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-summit-1.0.12-1 ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1 ocfs-support-1.0.10-1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1 Shared Storage: Dell/EMC CX600 naviagentcli-6.19.0.4.14-1.noarch.rpm PowerPath 4.4 Post navisphere shuttingdown, The ocfs service attempts to stop Then I get errors: Ocfs:Unmounting drive on [privatenic] 7959 err: unable to sendmsg error: -101,

I was curious if someone on this list has performance numbers with and without PowerPath 3.0.3 on RH AS 2.1 Oracle 9i RAC systems with OCFS. I know that there were some concerns with PowerPath intercepting IO's and slowing performance related to OCFS. Appreciate your feedback. Raj

For those customers that are on this list and are using EMC Powerpath or HP Securepath and have performance problems while using ocfs and point to ocfs first. the actual io overhead for an io on ocfs compared to raw, when it's database io is negligable, we don't do any locking, we have about 40000 clockticks of processing from logical to physical offset, nothingin todays cpu world. Every

Hi there, have a strange behavior if i?ll create a zfs pool at an EMC PowerPath pseudo device. I can create a pool on emcpower0a but not on emcpower2a zpool core dumps with invalid argument .... ???? Thats my second maschine with powerpath and zfs the first one works fine, even zfs/powerpath and failover ... Is there anybody who has the same failure and a solution ? :) Greets Dominik

Specs: Oracle 9.2.0.4 OS is Redhat AS2.1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-summit-1.0.12-1 ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1 ocfs-support-1.0.10-1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1 Shared Storage: Dell/EMC CX600 naviagentcli-6.19.0.4.14-1.noarch.rpm PowerPath 4.4 My system was originally installed by Dell. Since then I've upgraded the OCFS and a few other pkgs. But ever since the beginning the ocfs drives mounted on boot.

Hi, We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC analist has told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host talking (iSCSI) with an EMC storage, preferably using the EMC Powerpath software, and can talk about you experience? Or I will need to buy some REHL licenses ? I'll put my hands on it only next

All, my apologies in advance for the wide distribution - it was recommended that I contact these aliases but if there is a more appropriate one, please let me know... I have received the following EFI disk-related questions from the EMC PowerPath team who would like to provide more complete support for EFI disks on Sun platforms... I would appreciate help in answering these questions...

How much fun can you have with a simple thing like powerpath? Here''s the story: I have a (remote) system with access to a couple of EMC LUNs. Originally, I set it up with mpxio and created a simple zpool containing the two LUNs. It''s now been reconfigured to use powerpath instead of mpxio. My problem is that I can''t import the pool. I get: pool: ###### id:

I decided to post this question to the mailing list because it needs ZFS knowledge to be solved. The situation is like this: I have a blade server that boots from a LUN, which has no additional storage or internal disk but that LUN used to boot. MPxIO works perfectly; but the management wants to use EMC PowerPath, because the company already has an investment on licensing. After disabling

I?ve an issue related to Oracle 10g RAC. I?ve 2 node cluster each being Dell 2850 Server with RHEL 4.0 I?ve EMC CX300 SAN storage with following partitions /orasoft 10 Gb OCFS2 File system /oracrs 2 Gb OCFS2 File system /orabackup 100 Gb OCFS2 File system The datafiles are on ASM which is not directly visible in OS.

Dear List Users- IHAC planning storage layout and is looking for the following MAX_LUNS size limit on RHEL 3.0 and 4.0. Details are below. Customer database size is estimated to grow to 5 TB and worries that they will not be able to present enough devices to the system if used with EMC powerpath and RHEL 3.0 max_lun limitations. I have advised on using OCFS or ASM as this is a 10g Database

Hello This is a bit off-topic, but here goes: Try installing the "device-mapper-multipath" package and follow the documentation below - residing at the powerlink.emc.com site: "Native Multipath Failover Based on DM-MPIO for v2.6.x Linux Kernel and EMC(r) Storage Arrays" When configured this works just as good as PowerPath. This works great on RHEL / CentOS 5 Daniel On

I just installed EMC PowerPath 5.0.0 and Navisphere Agent and CLI on a CentOS 4.4/x86_64 system. When I try to start naviagent, I get the error below. Before upgrading to CentOS4.4, this same system had RHEL3 ES for x86_64 on it, and the same problem was encountered. I spent weeks going back and forth with EMC tech support, but the problem was never resolved. I'm hoping someone here on this

I've been reading this group for a while and I've noticed a variety of comments regarding running OCFS on top of path-management packages such as EMC's Powerpath, and it brought to mind a problem I've been having. I'm currently testing a six-node cluster connected to a Hitachi 9570V SAN storage array, using OCFS 1.0.12. I have six LUNs presented to the hosts using HDLM,

An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/attachments/20041206/e14c6071/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Andrew.McCurdy.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 359 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/attachments/20041206/e14c6071/Andrew.McCurdy.vcf

If anyone is running this configuration, I have some questions for you about Page83 data errors. This message posted from opensolaris.org

OEL 5, OCFS 1.4, using EMC Power Path for multi pathing. I want t mount the OCFS2 file system on the emc power path device. I can mount by UUID, and not have to worry about persistent bindings across nodes. But how do I make sure when it mounts by UUID , that the pwoer path device is used. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks -- Sridhar Avantsa savantsa at gmail.com -------------- next