On 6/26/19 7:37 PM, Brian Bunker wrote:
> It has been some time since we updated our PURE FlashArray configuration. The
> Linux vendors that we had been seeing in the field were using very old versions
> of multipath-tools, so we haven’t needed to change anything for some time. With
> the release of RHEL8, some of our earlier values have been lost by upstream
> changes.
>
> In addition we have our Active Cluster feature which leverages ALUA since our
> last patch. The ALUA confguration will work for all FlashArrays with or without
> Active Cluster.
>
> We are changing 3 things.
>
> 1. ALUA support
>
> 2. Fast fail timeout from the default of 5 seconds to 10 seconds (We need this
> for our FC NPIV port migration).
>
> 3. Maximum sector size of 4MB. Some Linux vendors don’t honor the block limits
> VPD page of INQUIRY).
#3, kernel or udev bug?
> diff --git a/libmultipath/hwtable.c b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> index 1d964333..37e97f60 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> @@ -1024,7 +1024,12 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
> /* FlashArray */
> .vendor = "PURE",
> .product = "FlashArray",
> - .pgpolicy = MULTIBUS,
> + .pgpolicy = GROUP_BY_PRIO,
> + .pgfailback = -FAILBACK_IMMEDIATE,
> + .hwhandler = "1 alua",
> + .prio_name = PRIO_ALUA,
> + .fast_io_fail = 10,
> + .max_sectors_kb = 4096,
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