Rpm P Ackages And D Ocuments For L Inux Mpio - Asus DS300j G2 Series User Manual

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ASUS DS300f G2 supports Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) on the latest Linux distributions:
• RedHat Linux RHEL 5.4
• RedHat Linux RHEL 5.5
• SuSE Linux SLES 10 SP3
• SuSE Linux SLES 11
• SuSE Linux SLES 11 SP1
ASUS Storage provides RPM packages and multipath.conf files for ALUA. See "RPM Packages and Documents
for Linux MPIO" on page 486.
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To support ALUA within RHEL 5.4 using kernel with XEN or PAE support:
1. Install RHEL 5.4. When the CD is chosen for installation, immediately type linux mpath.
2. Copy the ASUS Storage-supplied multipath.conf file to the /etc directory.
cp multipath.conf-ASUS DS300f G2-alua-rhel5-4 /etc/multipath.conf
3. Install this patched alua_dh_scsi source module.
rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2Dual-1-1.src.rpm
4. Make your own rpm.
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC
rpmbuild -ba scsi_dh_alau.spec
5. Determine your system architecture, x86_64 or i386.
uname -a
6. Install the appropriate scsi_dh_alua driver module.
• i386
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386
rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2-1-1.i386.rpm
• x86_64
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/x86_64
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rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2-1-1.x86_64.rpm
7. Check the multipath configuration.
Multipath -ll (multipath -v4)
r h l rhel 5.5
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To support ALUA within RHEL 5.5 using kernel with XEN or PAE support:
1. Install RHEL 5.5. When the CD is chosen for installation, immediately type linux mpath.
2. Copy the ASUS Storage-supplied multipath.conf file to the /etc directory.
cp multipath.conf.alua-rhel5.5 /etc/multipath.conf
3. Install this patched alua_dh_scsi driver module.
4. rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2Dual-2-1.src.rpm
5. Make your own rpm.
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC
rpmbuild -ba scsi_dh_alau.spec
6. Determine your system architecture, x86_64 or i386.
uname -a
7. Install the appropriate scsi_dh_alua driver module.
• i386
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386
rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2-2-1.i386.rpm
• x86_64
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/x86_64
rpm -ivh scsi_dh_alua_ASUS DS300f G2-2-1.x86_64.rpm
8. Check the multipath configuration.
Multipath -ll (multipath -v4)
S Se l SleS 10 SP3
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To support ALUA within SLES10 SP3:
1. Determine your system architecture, i586 or x86_64.
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