Périphériques multivoie
Without DM-Multipath, each path from a server node to a storage controller is treated by the system as a separate device, even when the I/O path connects the same server node to the same storage controller. DM-Multipath provides a way of organizing the I/O paths logically, by creating a single multipath device on top of the underlying devices.
Multipath Device Identifiers
Each multipath device has a World Wide Identifier (WWID), which is guaranteed to be globally unique and unchanging. By default, the name of a multipath device is set to its WWID. Alternately, you can set the user_friendly_names option in the multipath configuration file, which causes DM-Multipath to use a node-unique alias of the form mpathn as the name. For example, a node with two HBAs attached to a storage controller with two ports via a single unzoned FC switch sees four devices: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd. DM-Multipath creates a single device with a unique WWID that reroutes I/O to those four underlying devices according to the multipath configuration. When the user_friendly_names configuration option is set to yes, the name of the multipath device is set to mpathn. When new devices are brought under the control of DM-Multipath, the new devices may be seen in two different places under the /dev directory: /dev/mapper/mpathn and /dev/dm-n.
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The devices in /dev/mapper are created early in the boot process. Use these devices to access the multipathed devices, for example when creating logical volumes.
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Any devices of the form /dev/dm-n are for internal use only and should never be used.
Consistent Multipath Device Names in a Cluster
When the user_friendly_names configuration option is set to yes, the name of the multipath device is unique to a node, but it is not guaranteed to be the same on all nodes using the multipath device. Similarly, if you set the alias option for a device in the multipaths section of the multipath.conf configuration file, the name is not automatically consistent across all nodes in the cluster. This should not cause any difficulties if you use LVM to create logical devices from the multipath device, but if you require that your multipath device names be consistent in every node it is recommended that you leave the user_friendly_names option set to no and that you not configure aliases for the devices. By default, if you do not set user_friendly_names to yes or configure an alias for a device, a device name will be the WWID for the device, which is always the same. If you want the system-defined user-friendly names to be consistent across all nodes in the cluster, however, you can follow this procedure:
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Configurez tous les périphériques multipath sur une machine.
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Désactivez tous vos périphériques multipath sur vos autres machines en exécutant les commandes suivantes :
# service multipath-tools stop # multipath -F
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Copy the /etc/multipath/bindings file from the first machine to all the other machines in the cluster.
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Re-enable the multipathd daemon on all the other machines in the cluster by running the following command:
# service multipath-tools start
Si vous ajoutez un nouveau périphérique, vous devrez répéter ce processus.
Similarly, if you configure an alias for a device that you would like to be consistent across the nodes in the cluster, you should ensure that the /etc/multipath.conf file is the same for each node in the cluster by following the same procedure:
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Configure the aliases for the multipath devices in the in the multipath.conf file on one machine.
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Désactivez tous vos périphériques multipath sur vos autres machines en exécutant les commandes suivantes :
# service multipath-tools stop # multipath -F
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Copy the multipath.conf file from the first machine to all the other machines in the cluster.
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Re-enable the multipathd daemon on all the other machines in the cluster by running the following command:
# service multipath-tools start
Lorsque vous ajouterez un nouveau périphérique, vous devrez répéter ce processus.
Attributs des périphériques multipath
In addition to the user_friendly_names and alias options, a multipath device has numerous attributes. You can modify these attributes for a specific multipath device by creating an entry for that device in the multipaths section of the multipath configuration file. For information on the multipaths section of the multipath configuration file, see Section, "Configuration File Multipath Attributes".
Peripheriques multipath dans les volumes logiques
After creating multipath devices, you can use the multipath device names just as you would use a physical device name when creating an LVM physical volume. For example, if /dev/mapper/mpatha is the name of a multipath device, the following command will mark /dev/mapper/mpatha as a physical volume.
# pvcreate /dev/mapper/mpatha
If you attempt to create an LVM physical volume on a whole device on which you have configured partitions, the pvcreate command will fail.
When you create an LVM logical volume that uses active/passive multipath arrays as the underlying physical devices, you should include filters in the lvm.conf to exclude the disks that underlie the multipath devices. This is because if the array automatically changes the active path to the passive path when it receives I/O, multipath will failover and failback whenever LVM scans the passive path if these devices are not filtered. For active/passive arrays that require a command to make the passive path active, LVM prints a warning message when this occurs. To filter all SCSI devices in the LVM configuration file (lvm.conf), include the following filter in the devices section of the file.
filter = [ "r/block/", "r/disk/", "r/sd.*/", "a/.*/" ]
update-initramfs -u -k all
Every time either /etc/lvm.conf or /etc/multipath.conf is updated, the initrd should be rebuilt to reflect these changes. This is imperative when blacklists and filters are necessary to maintain a stable storage configuration.