You can enable the system to support multipathing for Linux® hosts.
Before you begin
The system supports the Linux device-mapper
multipathing driver for the iSER host attachment. After the iSER devices are discovered, you can
enable multipathing.
About this task
To enable multipathing for a Linux host, complete
the following steps:
Procedure
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If the daemon is already running, stop the multipathing daemon with the service
multipathd stop command.
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Add the entry for the system by editing the multipath configuration file,
/etc/multipath.conf. In the DMMP configuration file,
/etc/multipath.conf, ensure that the default settings include the values that
are described in Settings for Linux hosts.
Note: Prevent blacklisting of the IBM® 2145 devices by either
disabling blacklisting of devices entirely or by adding an appropriate entry in the
blacklist_exceptions section.
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Save the file.
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Restart the multipathing daemon with the service multipathd start
command.
If you are using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service
Pack 2 or later, replace the line prio "/sbin/mpath_prio/alua /dev/%n"
with prio "alua" to disable the Using deprecated
prio message.
Note: Linux usually enables
multipathing automatically.
However, in some cases such as the RH 6.3
SAN boot installation, the multipathing is not configured properly. If this situation occurs, you must manually
edit the
/etc/multipath.conf file. For information about DM-multipath,
see the Linux
Storage Administration Guide or
DM-Multipathing Installation and
Configuration Guide for your kernel from the Linux provider. For more information about Linux system configuration, see the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/liaab/ic-homepage.htm