Teaming of paths

Jesper Monsted wrote:


In FC, it's called ISL trunking,

Ah! I missed that it was FC under discussion. I saw ISL, and I immediately
started thinking "ethernet".

Sorry.

- Andrew

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"Marcel" wrote in :
Does the general multhipathing software use some sort of loadbalancing
between the two or more paths?

Some of it does, yes.


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/Jesper Monsted

Hmm.... also interesting, any suggestions which software would do this?

Another idea/question.

When a disk array is connected to a switch with both controllers, will
the switch detect that situation and balance the load between them or is it
a better idea to split it into two zones/switches?

Marcel

Andrew Gideon wrote in
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Jesper Monsted wrote:
Ah! I missed that it was FC under discussion. I saw ISL, and I
immediately started thinking "ethernet".

Well, this *is* a storage newsgroup

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/Jesper Monsted

"Marcel" wrote in :
Some of it does, yes.

Hmm.... also interesting, any suggestions which software would do
this?

Powerpath, Veritas DMP at least, possibly others.

Another idea/question.

When a disk array is connected to a switch with both controllers,
will
the switch detect that situation and balance the load between them or
is it a better idea to split it into two zones/switches?

The switch doesn't care. Your multipath software might be able to balance
the load, but that's independant of the zoning.

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/Jesper Monsted

Jesper Monsted wrote:

Andrew Gideon wrote in
online.com:

Jesper Monsted wrote:
Ah! I missed that it was FC under discussion. I saw ISL, and I
immediately started thinking "ethernet".

Well, this *is* a storage newsgroup

And I'm here looking for a *N*AS solution. I let my agenda bias my reading
grin.

- Andrew