From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2007 - 09:19:47 CEST
Message-ID: <10f501c76ead$f88a4fc0$6401a8c0@alexh> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Strange message in syslog (SLES10 + dell 2950)
Check with Novell and IBM. They work together, so there is a chance for it
to work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Duffner" <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com>
Cc: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Strange message in syslog (SLES10 + dell 2950)
>
> Am 24.03.2007 um 04:20 schrieb Alexei Roudnev:
>
> > Sorry, misinterpreted the question.
> >
> > SAN booting should work out-of-the-box with HBA card, but I not a
> > multipath
> > for the /boot disk . But I think that it is common Linux defect
> > (multipath
> > is a daemon, not a driver, so it cause a lot of inconveniences like
> > this, in
> > exchange to some flexibility).
> >
> > My previous response was about iSCSI booting.
>
>
>
> Well, without multipath, it's worthless IMO (wo uses single-path FC?)
> We use HPs Qlogic drivers (in combination with HP EVAs), with RedHat.
> They also have SLES-8+9+10 drivers.
> I'd really like the "enterprise" linux-distros (I'll stop using the
> parenthesis when they do their documentation-homework)
> to include these drivers out-of-the box.
> I haven't tried installing SLES, but with RHEL, the boot-block
> doesn't get written correctly on our (diskless) IBM blades (because
> it sees the disks multiple times).
> I've been told yesterday that Redhat has now approved SAN-boot and dm-
> multipathing with RHEL5.
>
> Diskless blades are getting more and more common.
>
>
> cheers,
> Rainer
>
>
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