[OmniOS-discuss] adding multipath disks

[Joseph Boren]

Hi Brad,

You are correct they are a different manufacturer which needed to be added
to that conf file.   Michael's notes were exactly what I needed to do
that.  Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

Best regards,


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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Brad Stone <bstone at aspirinsoftware.com>
wrote:

> Perhaps the new disks are not the same make and model as the old disks.
> You may need to add entries to the scsi_vhci.conf file with the product and
> vendor information of the new disks. You can use format/inquiry to find the
> necessary information.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Joseph Boren <jboren at drakecooper.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have an OmniOS system that started life as a Nexenta system then at one
>> point installed omnios and imported the pool.   It's got a supermicro JBOD
>> with dual controllers with a bunch of disks configured as a pool of
>> mirrored pairs.  The pool is getting full and I'd like to add some disks so
>> I add 8 more to the JBOD.  I am unsure how to configure them though...
>>
>> If I list the disks all the new ones show 2 times, once for each port.  I
>> understand how to create mirrored vdevs and add them to the pool, but I
>> don't understand how to create them with these disks listed 2 times.  The
>> original pool was set up by the Nexenta integrator when we bought the
>> system, so I didn't get to see how they were originally configured.  They
>> only show up once.
>>
>> Can anyone point me at any documentation or help with how to deal with
>> these disks?  Thanks a ton..
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
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>>
>> Joseph Boren
>>
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