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Preface v

1. Audience ........................................................................................................................ v

2. Related Documentation ................................................................................................... v

3. Feedback ........................................................................................................................ v

4. Document Conventions ................................................................................................... vi

4.1. Typographic Conventions ..................................................................................... vi

4.2. Pull-quote Conventions ........................................................................................ vii

4.3. Notes and Warnings ........................................................................................... viii

1. Device Mapper Multipathing 1

1.1. New and Changed Features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 ......................................... 1

1.2. Overview of DM-Multipath ............................................................................................. 1

1.3. Storage Array Support .................................................................................................. 4

1.4. DM-Multipath Components ............................................................................................ 4

1.5. DM-Multipath Setup Overview ....................................................................................... 5

2. Multipath Devices 7

2.1. Multipath Device Identifiers ........................................................................................... 7

2.2. Consistent Multipath Device Names in a Cluster ............................................................ 7

2.3. Multipath Device Attributes ........................................................................................... 9

2.4. Multipath Devices in Logical Volumes ............................................................................ 9

3. Setting Up DM-Multipath 11

3.1. Setting Up DM-Multipath ............................................................................................. 11

3.2. Ignoring Local Disks when Generating Multipath Devices .............................................. 12

3.3. Adding Devices to the Multipathing Database ............................................................. 14

4. The DM-Multipath Configuration File 15

4.1. Configuration File Overview ........................................................................................ 15

4.2. Configuration File Blacklist .......................................................................................... 16

4.2.1. Blacklisting by WWID ....................................................................................... 16

4.2.2. Blacklisting By Device Name ............................................................................ 16

4.2.3. Blacklisting By Device Type ............................................................................. 17

4.2.4. Blacklist Exceptions ......................................................................................... 17

4.3. Configuration File Defaults .......................................................................................... 18

4.4. Multipaths Device Configuration Attributes ................................................................... 21

4.5. Configuration File Devices .......................................................................................... 23

5. DM-Multipath Administration and Troubleshooting 27

5.1. Resizing an Online Multipath Device ........................................................................... 27

5.2. The Multipath Daemon ............................................................................................... 28

5.3. Issues with Large Number of LUNs ............................................................................. 28

5.4. Issues with queue_if_no_path feature .......................................................................... 28

5.5. Multipath Command Output ........................................................................................ 28

5.6. Multipath Queries with multipath Command ................................................................. 29

5.7. Multipath Command Options ....................................................................................... 30

5.8. Determining Device Mapper Entries with the dmsetup Command ................................... 30

5.9. Troubleshooting with the multipathd Interactive Console ................................................ 30

A. Revision History 33

Index 35

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