[OmniOS-discuss] stmf service in multiple instances? Or other solution?

Michael Rasmussen mir at miras.org
Fri Sep 27 12:03:33 UTC 2013


Couldn't you use stmfadm to add the luns and views from a script?

Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm interested in HA for a fibre channel storage server, in a way that
>you can run 2 or more heads active-active, each one running stmf from
>their own configuration, serving different hosts.
>
>Saso has written an excellent guide to this, but so far only part
>one...
>
>The pool failover isn't a problem, it is the failover of the stmf
>configuration that is.
>
>I can only see two possible solutions here:
>
>
>Either that you can run stmf in multiple instances, can you?
>
>If so, you can have mirrors of the stmf config files on both heads, and
>if one head fails, a second instance of stmf could start with the
>config file from the failing head.
>
>Or:
>
>You can restart the stmf service with a new config that includes the
>stmf configuration of the failing head. Which of coarse would interupt
>the service to the hosts connected to that head, as well as it would be
>difficult to produce that config file, I guess...
>
>
>Someone got inputs to this...?
>
>Rgrds Johan
>
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