Re: disksuite and dual attached multipak?

From: Mr. Johan Andersson (johan_at_solace.mh.se)
Date: 06/23/03


Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:18:16 +0200


On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Raf LaPietra wrote:

> In article <c976cb73.0306211214.1da3f609@posting.google.com>,
> Beeblebrox <sl1433@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmsalvo <jmsalvo@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> >news:<bd0vap$d6k$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>...
> >> Darren Dunham wrote:
> >> > Beeblebrox <sl1433@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Hello,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>I have 2 Sun Netra T1s running Solaris 8 attached to a multipak. Both
> >> >>hosts see all of the drives. I've already created the mirrors and
> >> >>filesystems using one of the hosts. What needs to happen for me to be
> >> >>able to mount those mirrors onto the other host?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > What are you trying to do? Do you just want a copy of the data? Break
> >> > the mirror, then mount it up on the other host.
> >>
> >> My guess is he wants to be able to mount the disks in the event of a
> >> failure on the primary host.
> >
> >Correct. In the event of a failure, I want to be able to mount the
> >filesystems on the other host. It's easy to do that with VxVM, but
> >I've had little luck finding out how to do it with SDS.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> It you want to be able to mount it on ther other host, then you will need to
> set up your metadevices in metasets, and make sure that both hosts have access
> to the sets. man metaset. This will allow one of your hosts to own the set at
> a given time
>
> -Raf
>

Just remember that this is NOT supported from Sun unless you run it in
specific cluster setups, metasets with no cluster is not supported from
Sun, just beware of that.

/Johan A



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