This will greatly speed up failover times; with the defaults, the timeout values are just way too long for multipathing: options qla2xxx ql2xfailover=0 ql2xioctltimeout=10 ql2xprocessnotready=0 ql2xloginretrycount=3 ql2xsuspendcount=3 ql2xretrycount=5 qlport_down_retry=3 Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business