iSCSI(mulptipath) disks in RAID

sand-max

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Hello guys!
I have 2 SAN HP-MSA2040 in difference location and have idea use 2 targets (from each Storage).
And I've done next:
Created targets on each storage and connected initiator from pvenode to ones, target have 4 way so use multipath :

root@pvenode3:~# multipath -ll
MSA2040-1-iSCSI-mpath (3600c0ff0001e66d4c172b45c01000000) dm-31 HP,MSA 2040 SAN
size=14G features='2 queue_if_no_path retain_attached_hw_handler' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active
| |- 9:0:0:4 sdf 8:80 active ready running
| `- 8:0:0:4 sdg 8:96 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled
|- 10:0:0:4 sdh 8:112 active ready running
`- 11:0:0:4 sdi 8:128 active ready running

MSA2040-2-iSCSI-mpath (3600c0ff0001e216b097bb45c01000000) dm-1 HP,MSA 2040 SAN
size=14G features='2 queue_if_no_path retain_attached_hw_handler' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active
| |- 14:0:0:4 sdl 8:176 active ready running
| `- 15:0:0:4 sdm 8:192 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled
|- 12:0:0:4 sdj 8:144 active ready running
`- 13:0:0:4 sdk 8:160 active ready running
root@pvenode3:~#


Next step added disks dm-31 dm-1 in soft RAID 1:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/dm-1 /dev/dm-31
root@pvenode3:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 dm-30[1] dm-1[0]
9756672 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]


Created Physical volume, VG Group and Logical Volume.

But after reboot server it does not work:

In RAID added iSCSI disks (no multipath /dev/dmX)

root@pvenode3:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 sdj[1] sdf[0]
14639104 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>


root@pvenode3:~# multipath -ll
MSA2040-2-iSCSI-mpath (3600c0ff0001e216b097bb45c01000000) dm-1 HP,MSA 2040 SAN
size=14G features='2 queue_if_no_path retain_attached_hw_handler' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=active
`- 14:0:0:4 sdk 8:160 active ready running
root@pvenode3:~#


I tried change queue of load in rc3.d for mdadm for loading after iscsid and multipath, but unsuccessfully:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 14:01 S05iscsid -> ../init.d/iscsid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 28 14:01 S06open-iscsi -> ../init.d/open-iscsi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 1 12:27 S07multipath-tools -> ../init.d/multipath-tools
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 15 12:57 S08mdadm -> ../init.d/mdadm


While found next solving:

Remove 1st disk from md0 then unlogin/login to 1st target (/dev/dmX appeared in multipath) and add disk /dev/dmX to md0.
Then same actions for 2nd disk and target.

Have anybody ideas ?
 

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