* Paul Cote
Is there a specific failover mode that the CX must be set for DM interoperability?
You have (at least) two options. CLARiiON Open mode 1 is the traditional way where all paths to the passive controller is present but will refuse almost all I/O operations. You'll need to be using the "emc" hardware handler for that to work, since a proprietary command needs to be sent to a path to the passive controller in order to trespass the volume there.
The other option (which is only available in FLARE 26) is ALUA mode (CLARiiON Open mode 4), where I/O is accepted on both controllers even though only one is the one handling all the I/O. You can use this without a hardware handler (there's one in developement, though), but you'll still want to be prioritising the paths to the preferred controller for optimal performance. This is the mode I would prefer, at least. I wrote a bit more about the ALUA mode a few days ago:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel/4366/focus=4435 Regards -- Tore Anderson -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
