zfs discuss - Aug 2006 - StorEdge 9970V + ZFS +Fiber +Load balancing

Greetings all,

I have been given the task of playing around with ZFS and a StorEdge 9970 (HDS
9970) disk array. This setup will be duplicated into a production system later
with zones as well.

Since i am new to ZFS and big storage array''s such as the 9970 i have a
few thoughts/questions that i would like to share with the forum.

1, How does ZFS handle failover when i have 2 fiber links to the Storage ?

2, How is load balancing done over the same 2 fiber links ?

3, Does anyone have any special recommendations in general on setting up a
system like this ?

Regards, 

Pierre
 
 
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Path failover is not handled by ZFS. You would use mpxio, or other 
software, to take care of path failover.

Pierre Klovsjo wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I have been given the task of playing around with ZFS and a StorEdge 9970
(HDS 9970) disk array. This setup will be duplicated into a production system
later with zones as well.
>
> Since i am new to ZFS and big storage array''s such as the 9970 i
have a few thoughts/questions that i would like to share with the forum.
>
> 1, How does ZFS handle failover when i have 2 fiber links to the Storage ?
>
> 2, How is load balancing done over the same 2 fiber links ?
>
> 3, Does anyone have any special recommendations in general on setting up a
system like this ?
>
>

Thanks for a quick answer. I suppose it was not much of a ZFS question after
all.

Regards,

Pierre
 
 
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