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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Multiple Paths to SAN with LVM in Linux? Post 302131155 by deckard on Thursday 9th of August 2007 10:47:15 AM
Old 08-09-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by thebap
...Running the controllers in active/active mode we're using RedHats Device Mapper Multipath software to create multiple paths to our SAN... I hope this helps you out a little...
Smilie It sure did! Since CentOS uses the 'yum' system some searching on the web and within the yum respositories led me to this:

Code:
[root@localhost etc]# yum install device-mapper-multipath
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for device-mapper-multipath to pack into transaction set.
device-mapper-multipath-0 100% |=========================| 9.5 kB    00:00     
---> Package device-mapper-multipath.i386 0:0.4.7-8.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 device-mapper-multipath  i386       0.4.7-8.el5      base              760 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 760 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): device-mapper-mult 100% |=========================| 760 kB    00:01     
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: device-mapper-multipath      ######################### [1/1] 

Installed: device-mapper-multipath.i386 0:0.4.7-8.el5
Complete!

Now I just need to find a good HOWTO and give this a shot. Thanks a LOT!
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ocf_heartbeat_lvm

OCF_HEARTBEAT_LVM(7)						OCF resource agents					      OCF_HEARTBEAT_LVM(7)

NAME

       ocf_heartbeat_LVM - Controls the availability of an LVM Volume Group

SYNOPSIS

       LVM [start | stop | status | monitor | methods | meta-data | validate-all]

DESCRIPTION

       Resource script for LVM. It manages an Linux Volume Manager volume (LVM) as an HA resource.

SUPPORTED PARAMETERS

       volgrpname
	   The name of volume group. (required, string, no default)

       exclusive
	   If set, the volume group will be activated exclusively. (optional, string, default false)

SUPPORTED ACTIONS

       This resource agent supports the following actions (operations):

       start
	   Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 30.

       stop
	   Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 30.

       status
	   Performs a status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 30.

       monitor
	   Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 30. Suggested interval: 10.

       methods
	   Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

       meta-data
	   Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

       validate-all
	   Performs a validation of the resource configuration. Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

EXAMPLE

       The following is an example configuration for a LVM resource using the crm(8) shell:

	   primitive example_LVM ocf:heartbeat:LVM 
	     params 
	       volgrpname=string 
	     op monitor depth="0" timeout="30" interval="10"

SEE ALSO

       http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/LVM_(resource_agent)

AUTHOR

       Linux-HA contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors)

resource-agents 1.0.3						    07/05/2010						      OCF_HEARTBEAT_LVM(7)
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