Two new iSCSI patches for s10+ out...

Sun recently released two new iSCSI patches for the Solaris iSCSI software initiator. One for Sparcv9 and the other for x86/amd64.

119090-20

119091-20

These patches will work on s10 and forward. This patch includes all the Solaris 10 Update 2 features, along with 3 intermittent bug fixes, and one small feature enhancement. That feature enhancement is a way to disable MPxIO for the Solaris iSCSI initiator in the same way possible with fp.conf.

Below is a clip from the iscsi.conf file. While I'm not happy with its double negative wording, disable=no, it does match the exact wording used by fp.conf to be consistent. To disable mpxio with the solaris initiator you will want to change the iscsi.conf entry mpxio-disable="no"; to mpxio-disable="yes";

#
# I/O multipathing feature (MPxIO) can be enabled or disabled using
# mpxio-disable property. Setting mpxio-disable="no" will activate
# I/O multipathing; setting mpxio-disable="yes" disables the feature.
#
# Global mpxio-disable property:
#
# To globally enable MPxIO on all iscsi ports set:
# mpxio-disable="no";
#
# To globally disable MPxIO on all iscsi ports set:
# mpxio-disable="yes";
#
mpxio-disable="no";

Posted at 12:18PM Jul 10, 2006 by dweibel in General  |