To confirm, 5.1 will allow MPIO over 2 NICs w/o requiring an HBA? Thanks, Scott On Oct 25, 2007 12:06 PM, Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > We're interesting in using multipath I/O from our Red Hat servers > > with our iSCSI SAN in order to have failover in the event of a switch > > failure. Our vendor gave me a product matrix and it says we cannot > > use 2 NICs under Red Hat, we must use 1 NIC and 1 HBA. I'm not > > finding any clear cut explanation of this in the device-mapper > > documentation, unless I'm missing something. Are we really required > > to use an HBA instead of just 1 NICs with DM? > > In RHEL 5.0, that is true. > > In RHEL 5.1 you can now bind a session to a specific nic and multipath > over the two sessions. See sectrion 5.1 in > /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-*/README for info on how to do this. > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
