Multipath with a DELL MD3000i

gob

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Aug 4, 2011
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Hi

I am struggling to get multipath working with Proxmox 4 Beta and a DELL MD3000i over iSCSI. I haven't tried with Proxmox 3 but I assume it isn't a beta issue and just me not grasping it.

I think I am getting close to the goal. The first issue I find is the following errors after running multipath -ll
Code:
# multipath -ll
Jul 24 12:01:18 | multipath.conf +21, invalid keyword: mulitpath
Jul 24 12:01:18 | multipath.conf +22, invalid keyword: device
Jul 24 12:01:18 | multipath.conf +23, invalid keyword: vendor
Jul 24 12:01:18 | multipath.conf +24, invalid keyword: product
Jul 24 12:01:18 | multipath.conf +26, invalid keyword: }
mpathb (36001ec9000def6170000060354ab938e) dm-4 DELL,MD3000i
size=3.4T features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=6 status=active
| |- 5:0:0:1 sdg 8:96  active ready running
| `- 6:0:0:1 sdf 8:80  active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
  |- 3:0:0:1 sdh 8:112 active ghost running
  `- 4:0:0:1 sdi 8:128 active ghost running
mpatha (36001ec9000df04ae0000092254ab84f2) dm-3 DELL,MD3000i
size=2.2T features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=6 status=active
| |- 4:0:0:0 sde 8:64  active ready running
| `- 3:0:0:0 sdd 8:48  active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
  |- 5:0:0:0 sdc 8:32  active ghost running
  `- 6:0:0:0 sdb 8:16  active ghost running

Although the multipath seems to see the four paths to the SAN, I am a little worried about the errors at the start of the output.
Here is my multipath.conf:
Code:
blacklist {
        
        device {
                vendor DELL
                product "PERC|Universal"
        }
}
devices {
        device {
        user_friendly_names     yes
                vendor                  DELL
                product                 MD3000i
                hardware_handler        "1 rdac"
                path_checker            rdac
                path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
                prio            rdac
                failback                immediate
        }
}
multipaths {
        mulitpath {
                device {
                        vendor DELL
                        product MD3000i
                }
        }
}

Ignoring those errors I have tried to create a volume mapped to the multipath devices but I get:
Code:
# pvcreate /dev/dm-3
  Device /dev/dm-3 not found (or ignored by filtering).

dm-3 amd dm-4 do exist in /dev
Anybody know what I am missing?

thanks