Jeff McAdams on 1 Jun 2007 00:11:25 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] SAN Questions


Mag Gam wrote:
> Eventhough Linux will support MPIO, will it support Load Balancing? This is
> an important feature we use from EMC's PowerPath, currently.
> AIX 5.2 does have MPIO, however it does not support this, therefore we
> opted for PowerPath.

Again, I haven't actually used the Linux MPIO, but, yeah, I think it
does do load-balancing.  I do know that the Qlogic driver based
multi-pathing does do load-balancing, so if you're using Qlogic HBA's,
that is an option.
-- 
Jeff McAdams
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