From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 04:44:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F9837B401 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 04:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B3C243F3F for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 04:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fami@dfnstr.com) Received: (qmail 11144 invoked by uid 0); 12 May 2003 11:44:36 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO dfnstr.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 12 May 2003 11:44:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3EBF8A80.1000407@dfnstr.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:50:24 +0800 From: Fami M Kunju User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Fiber Channel/SAN, Multi-Host Attach & HA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 11:44:39 -0000 Hi all, 1. Has anyone any experience of FreeBSD 4.7/4.8 on x86 connected to Compaq RA8000 Storage Arrays, using a SAN switch (Brocade, others)? The RA8000 appears to be a FC-AL offering. I am interested to know what HBA was used - any Compaq HBA's? QLogic? Any issues or gotchas to watchout for? 2. Any experience with multi-host attach using QLogic 2200's and FreeBSD 4.7/4.8? Am looking at a MySQL server HA requirement that would require dual-attaching 2 servers - 1 active, the other stand-by - to SAN storage (as in 1. above) Again, any gotchas and issues? Any recommendations/experiences on a HA solution for such a deployment would be greatly appreciated too. TIA, Fami Kunju fami@dfnstr.com