This cookbook provides provides the ability to configure Device Mapper Multipath MPIO for Fibre-Channel and iSCSI storage attached systems.
A generic template, as well as four vendor-specific templates are included within this cookbook. Included vendor-specific templates are for Equallogic iSCSI, EMC Clariion, Dell Powervault MDxxxx and PureStorage storage arrays.
- iscsi
- dbench
- multipath (namespace)
- ["blacklist_regex"]: An array of regular expressions to blacklist. Default '^sd[a]$'
- ["blacklist_wwid"]: An array of World-Wide Identifiers (WWID) to blacklist. Default empty.
- ["aliases"]: A colon separated mapping of WWID to assign a friendly name. Default empty.
- ["storage_type"]: Select a vendor-specific multipath template (equallogic, powervault, clariion, default)
Set node specific overrides, and add recipe["multipath"] to the run_list
Example multipath node configuration for an EMC Clariion array. The keys, u01 through u03 are "friendly" name aliases for the storage paths.
"normal": {
"multipath": {
"storage_type": "clariion",
"blacklist_regex": [ "^sd[ab]$" ],
"blacklist_wwid": [
"3600508e000000000a02ffd9698283e07",
"3600508e000000000bb2f2d55b328ee05",
"350060160b9a03c9450060160b9a03c94"
],
"aliases": [
"u01:36006016005041f00d8f65c69ec56df11",
"u02:36006016005041f00d9f65c69ec56df11",
"u03:36006016005041f00daf65c69ec56df11"
]
}
}A run-once recipe to undo the default recipe. Inspired by the annoyances cookbook.
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