Mag Gam on 1 Jun 2007 02:04:28 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] SAN Questions

  • From: "Mag Gam" <magawake@gmail.com>
  • To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] SAN Questions
  • Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:04:24 -0400
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Thankyou! This thread answered all of my questions, and I managed to learn a lot.


On 5/31/07, Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com > wrote:
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
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                                       -- Benjamin Franklin


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