Sorry guys but let me start off by saying I am an AIX noob! I am running AIX 6.1 and recently purchased two iSCSI TOE cards. The plan is to connect these two cards to a Dell EqualLogic SAN and that has two volumes configured for logs and data.
The point of the two cards is to do load balancing and fail over if one card does, obviously I am interested in making this reliable and always available.
What I have done so far is:
Configured the ics0 and ics1 to have
IP addresses on the iSCSI network with the SAN
discovery policy of file
Edited the /etc/iscsi/targetshw# to include the paths to both volumes that I have configured
Now, when I do lspv, I see four new hdisks, because each card has connected to each volume. So obviously I have duplicate connections.
What I want to do is have these two cards load balance the connection and failover if a card dies and that's where I am stuck. I have read a little on MPIO but not having much luck with iSCSI TOE.
Can anyone add any configuration advice, it would be much appreciated!!
The point of the two cards is to do load balancing and fail over if one card does, obviously I am interested in making this reliable and always available.
What I have done so far is:
Configured the ics0 and ics1 to have
IP addresses on the iSCSI network with the SAN
discovery policy of file
Edited the /etc/iscsi/targetshw# to include the paths to both volumes that I have configured
Now, when I do lspv, I see four new hdisks, because each card has connected to each volume. So obviously I have duplicate connections.
What I want to do is have these two cards load balance the connection and failover if a card dies and that's where I am stuck. I have read a little on MPIO but not having much luck with iSCSI TOE.
Can anyone add any configuration advice, it would be much appreciated!!