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Table 18. iSCSI HBA Settings
Field
ARP Redirect
Settings by Server Operating System
To ensure effective communication with the Storage Center, configure the HBA settings from the server operating system. The following
server operating systems can be configured to provide more effective communication with Storage Center.
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Citrix XenServer
•
Microsoft Windows Server
•
Novell Netware
•
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Citrix XenServer
Configure the server HBA settings for the Citrix XenServer to ensure that the server performs a proper storage system failover when
working with Storage Center.
NOTE:
If the server is configured in a high-availability cluster, contact Citrix for best practices for setting high-availability
timeout values.
Versions 5.x to 6.2
For Citrix XenServer versions 5.x through 6.2, to ensure that XenServer volumes will persist after a Storage Center controller failover, apply
the following timeout values. These settings are located in the mpathHBA file located in the /opt/xensource/sm/ directory. When
finished, save the file and reboot the server.
Table 19. Citrix XenServer HBA Settings for Versions 5.x to 6.2
Field
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
MPATH_TIMEOUT
Version 6.5
For Citrix XenServer version 6.5 and later, the multipath configuration file has been relocated. To ensure that XenServer volumes will persist
after a Storage Center controller failover, apply the following timeout value. This setting is located in the defaults section of the
multipath.conf configuration file located in the /etc directory. When finished, save the file and reboot the server.
The following code provides an example:
defaults {
user_friendly_names no
replace_wwid_whitespace yes
dev_loss_tmo 30
}
NOTE:
The default value for the dev_loss_tmo timeout setting is 30. However, Dell recommends that the default is set to 60.
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